Smoky Joe Wood, Boston AL (baseball) – Historic Print
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(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: Smoky Joe Wood, Boston AL (baseball), preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Smoky Joe Wood, Boston AL (baseball)
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Pitcher Smoky Joe Wood appears here in a Boston American League uniform, the team then nicknamed the Bosox and now known as the Red Sox. Wood was one of the club's best arms in the early 1910s, and he won 34 games in 1912 while the team took the American League pennant and the World Series that year. The picture is a glass negative from the Bain News Service, a New York agency that sold news photographs to newspapers, and its 1913 date comes from later research by baseball historians, so it is an informed estimate rather than a date recorded at the time.
| Created / published | [1913] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards: Smokey Joe Wood, Bosox. Title and date based on research by the Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Baseball Research, 2006. Temp. note: Batch three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,741 × 4,222 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-11552 |
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