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The National Game: Three Outs and One Run – Antique Print

The National Game: Three Outs and One Run — historic image
The National Game: Three Outs and One Run. Historic image from the Baseball collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This historic image of The National Game: Three Outs and One Run brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.

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The National Game: Three Outs and One Run

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The title's phrase, "Three Outs and One Run," points to the core rhythm of the game: each side batted until three players were out, and a single run could decide the outcome of an inning. The "National Game" label was a common nickname for baseball in the nineteenth century, when it was becoming the most popular team sport in the United States. Lithographs like this one, from the period when the New York firm Currier & Ives sold sporting and genre scenes to a broad public, helped spread that identity by showing ordinary players and crowds as a familiar part of American life.

Original scan3,044 × 2,419 px · prints to 10 × 8 in at 300 dpi
Reference09311u

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