Frank "Home Run" Baker, Philadelphia AL (baseball) – Vintage Print
![Frank "Home Run" Baker, Philadelphia AL (baseball), [1913 Oct. 8] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/11/11fd5f9f4d12-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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Frank "Home Run" Baker, Philadelphia AL (baseball). An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Frank "Home Run" Baker, Philadelphia AL (baseball)
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Frank "Home Run" Baker, the Philadelphia Athletics third baseman, earned his nickname from his power at the plate, and he led the American League in home runs in several seasons before this picture was taken. The image is a glass negative from the Bain News Service, a New York agency whose photographers covered sports, theater and news for newspapers in the early 1900s. The date in the record is bracketed, meaning it was reconstructed by researchers at the Society for American Baseball Research rather than written on the negative, so it is best read as an informed estimate. Baker's reputation as a clutch hitter made him one of the best-known players of the deadball era.
| Created / published | [1913 Oct. 8] |
|---|---|
| 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: Baker. Title and date based on research by the Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Baseball Research, 2006. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,735 × 4,185 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-15710 |
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