Chief Meyers, New York, NL & Chief Bender, Philadelphia, AL at World Series (baseball) – Historic Print
![Chief Meyers, New York, NL & Chief Bender, Philadelphia, AL at World Series (baseball), [1911] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/00/00764336432f-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Chief Meyers, New York, NL & Chief Bender, Philadelphia, AL at World Series (baseball), preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Chief Meyers, New York, NL & Chief Bender, Philadelphia, AL at World Series (baseball)
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Two players nicknamed "Chief" appear together here: Chief Meyers of the New York Giants and Chief Bender of the Philadelphia Athletics, who were on opposing sides in the 1911 World Series. Meyers was Cahuilla from Southern California, and Bender was Ojibwe from Minnesota, and both were among the earliest Native American stars in major league baseball. The Bain News Service, a New York press photo agency, sold pictures like this to newspapers, which helps explain the plain sports caption. The Athletics won that Series four games to two.
| Created / published | [1911] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards: Meyers & Bender [sports]. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title and date based on research by the Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Baseball Research, 2006. Temp. note: Batch two loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,728 × 4,222 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-11103 |
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