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[Baseball players John J. McGraw of N.Y. and Frank Chance of Chicago National League baseball, standing beside each other on baseball field] – Vintage Wall Art

[Baseball players John J. McGraw of N.Y. and Frank Chance of Chicago National League baseball, standing beside each other on baseball field], [1911 May 12] — historic photograph
[Baseball players John J. McGraw of N.Y. and Frank Chance of Chicago National League baseball, standing beside each other on baseball field], [1911 May 12]. Historic photograph from the Baseball collection.

(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Baseball players John J. McGraw of N.Y. and Frank Chance of Chicago National League baseball, standing beside each other on baseball field]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Baseball players John J. McGraw of N.Y. and Frank Chance of Chicago National League baseball, standing beside each other on baseball field]

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Two of the best-known managers of the early 1910s stand side by side on a ballfield in this May 1911 photograph: John J. McGraw of the New York Giants and Frank Chance of the Chicago Cubs. The Giants and Cubs were fierce rivals in the National League, so seeing the two men posed together offers a calmer view of a contest that was anything but friendly on the field. Chance, a first baseman known as the "Peerless Leader," had guided the Cubs to several pennants and two World Series titles. The picture comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection of news photographs taken in New York.

Created / published[1911 May 12]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1910-1920.Group portraits 1910-1920.Photographic prints 1910-1920.
NotesGeorge Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsMcGraw, John Joseph,--1873-1934. Chance, Frank L. (Frank Leroy),--1877-1924. Baseball players--New York (State)--New York--1910-1920. Baseball players--Illinois--Chicago--1910-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,067 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-168821

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