Saturday, April 07, 2007

Baseball 1926 New York Yankees

New York Yankees baseball team posed, Credit Line: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, [reproduction number, LC-USZ62-97851]TITLE: [New York Yankees baseball team posed], CALL NUMBER: LOT 11147-2 [P&P], REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-97851 (b&w film copy neg.), No known restrictions on publication. 1926 Statistics and Roster
Digital ID: cph 3b46772 Source: b&w film copy neg. Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-97851 (b&w film copy neg.) Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA Retrieve uncompressed archival TIFF version (12 megabytes)

MEDIUM: 1 photographic print. CREATED, PUBLISHED: [1926 Oct. 19], NOTES: George Grantham Bain Collection.

REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. DIGITAL ID: (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3b46772 hdl.loc.gov/cph.3b46772 , VIDEO FRAME ID: LCPP003B-46772 (from b&w film copy neg.,) CARD #: 89714109

Credit Line: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, [reproduction number, LC-USZ62-97851]

MARC Record Line 540 - No known restrictions on publication.

New York Yankees, From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The 1927 Yankees lineup was so potent that it has become known as "Murderers' Row", and some consider the team to be the best in the history of baseball . (though similar claims have been made for other Yankee squads, notably those of 1939, 1961 and 1998). The Yankees won an AL record 110 games with only 44 losses, and swept the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 1927 World Series. Ruth's home run total of 60 in 1927 set a single-season home run record that would stand for 34 years. He also batted .356 and drove in 164 runs. Meanwhile, first baseman Lou Gehrig had his first big season, batting .373 with 47 round-trippers and 175 RBI's, beating Ruth's single-season RBI mark (171 in 1921).

Ruth hit third in the order, and Gherig hit cleanup Right behind them were two more sluggers: Bob "The Rifle" Meusel, who played either of the corner outfield positions, and Tony Lazzeri, who played second base. Lazzeri actually ranked third in the league in home runs in 1927 with 18, and he hit .309 with 102 RBI's. Meusel hit .337 with 103 RBI's. Speed was another weapon used by both: Lazzeri stole 22 bases while Meusel was second in the league with 24. These numbers were all due, in part, to center fielder and leadoff man Earle Combs. He hit .356, had a .414 on base percentage, and lead the AL with 231 hits that year (a team record until Don Mattingly broke it in 1986 with 283). The team's overall batting average in 1927 was .307.

The Yankees would repeat as American League champions in 1928, fighting off the resurgent Philadelphia Athletics. They would then go on to sweep the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1928 World Series. Ruth got 10 hits in 16 at-bats, his .625 average setting a new single-series record. Three of these hits were home runs. Meanwhile, Gehrig went 6 for 11 (.545), going yard four times.

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Friday, April 06, 2007

Baseball Jackie Robinson Day April 15th

Jackie Robinson in his Brooklyn Dodgers Uniform.

Creator(s): U.S. Information Agency. 1982-10/1/1999 (Most Recent) U.S. Information Agency. Press and Publications Service. Visual Services Branch. Photo Library. 1953-1977 (Predecessor) International Communications Agency. Press and Publications Service. Publications Division. 1978-1982 (Predecessor)

April 15, 1947 – Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line.

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Jackie Robinson in his Brooklyn Dodgers Uniform


Jackie Robinson in his Brooklyn Dodgers Uniform

This is a photo taken by a staff photographer of LOOK Magazine, and is part of the LOOK Magazine Photograph Collection at the Library of Congress. Their former owner, Cowles Communications, Inc, dedicated to the public all rights it owned to these images as an instrument of gift.

Cowles has expressed its desire that these images not be used for trade or advertising purposes. However, this request cannot be meant as a legally binding copyright restriction on their re-use, as all the rights to this image were released; rather, it is a caution against the use of celebrity images to imply product endorsement, drawn from civil rights law, and is unrelated to copyright.

Basrball Jackie Robinson Day

TITLE: [Jackie Robinson in Brooklyn Dodgers uniform, swinging bat], CALL NUMBER: LOOK - Job 54-3566-O, frame 7 [P and P], REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-L9-54-3566-O, #7 (b and w film neg.)

MEDIUM: 1 photographic print. CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1954. CREATOR: Sandberg, Bob, photographer.

NOTES: Forms part of: Look Magazine Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: LOOK, v. 19, no. 4, 1955 Feb. 22, p. 78. PART OF: Look magazine photograph collection (Library of Congress)

REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. DIGITAL ID: (b&w film neg.) ppmsc 00047 hdl.loc.gov/ppmsc.00047, CARD #: 97518915

Jackie Robinson Day

ARC Identifier: 542024, Title: Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. [Former National Baseball League player, Jackie Robinson with his son.], 08/28/1963

Creator: U.S. Information Agency. Press and Publications Service. (ca. 1953 - ca. 1978) ( Most Recent), Type of Archival Materials: Photographs and other Graphic Materials. Level of Description: Item from Record Group 306: Records of the U.S. Information Agency, 1900 - 1992

Location: Still Picture Records LICON, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-S), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 20740-6001 PHONE: 301-837-3530, FAX: 301-837-3621, EMAIL: stillpix@nara.gov Production Date: 08/28/1963

Part of Miscellaneous Subjects, Staff and Stringer Photographs, 1961 - 1974, Access Restrictions: Unrestricted, Use Restrictions: Unrestricted. Variant Control Number(s): Local Identifier: NWDNS-306-SSM-4C(54)26NAIL Control Number: NWDNS-306-SSM-4C(54)26

Copy 1 Copy Status: Preservation. Storage Facility: National Archives at College Park - Archives II (College Park, MD), Media, Media Type: Negative.

Jackie Robinson, From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson (January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972) became the first African-American Major League Baseball player of the modern era on April 15, 1947. The Baseball Hall of Fame inducted Robinson in 1962 and he was a member of six World Series teams. Jackie earned six consecutive All-Star Game nominations and won several awards during his career.

In 1947, Robinson won The Sporting News Rookie of the Year Award and the first MLB Rookie of the Year Award Award. Two years later, Jackie was awarded his first National League MVP Award. In addition to his accomplishments on the field, Jackie Robinson was also a forerunner of the Civil Rights Movement. He was a key figure in the establishment and growth of the Freedom Bank, an African-American owned and controlled entity, in the 1960s. He also wrote a syndicated newspaper column for a number of years, in which he was an outspoken supporter of Martin Luther King Jr. and, to a lesser degree, Malcolm X.

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