March 06, 2005

The Albert G. Spalding Collection of Early Baseball Photographs: From The New York Library Digital Gallery: 594 photographs, prints, drawings, caricatures, and printed illustrations from the personal collection of materials related to baseball and other sports gathered by the early baseball player and sporting-goods tycoon A. G. Spalding. This collection includes 19th-century studio portraits of players and teams of the day, rare images, photographs, and original drawings.

posted by UmpNews to baseball at 10:22 AM - 6 comments

Some of those shots are phenomenal. Thanks for this, Ump.

posted by chicobangs at 12:04 PM on March 06, 2005

Nice pic of Nap Lajoie talking to a dog too...weird. Cool link though, can't say I miss the suspenders and bow tie looking uniforms.

posted by chris2sy at 11:39 AM on March 07, 2005

I think they're kind of neat.

posted by chicobangs at 11:29 AM on March 08, 2005

Sure chicoB but would you wear clothes like that on a date?

posted by billsaysthis at 04:37 PM on March 08, 2005

Would I? Well -- of course I would! In a heartbeat!

posted by chicobangs at 05:05 PM on March 08, 2005

Very cool. Here's an early photo of A-Rod (wearing his line dancing outfit) starting the double play:

posted by dusted at 05:28 PM on March 08, 2005

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