Home run quick step - respectfully dedicated to the members of the Mercantile Baseball Club of Philadelphia by John Zebley, Jr. / T. Sinclair's Lith., Phila. – Antique Wall Art
(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 image of Home run quick step - respectfully dedicated to the members of the Mercantile Baseball Club of Philadelphia by John Zebley, Jr. / T. Sinclair's Lith., Phila.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Home run quick step - respectfully dedicated to the members of the Mercantile Baseball Club of Philadelphia by John Zebley, Jr. / T. Sinclair's Lith., Phila.
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Few baseball images on this board are musical. This one is sheet music whose cover shows a ballplayer after a home run, with the title *Home run quick step* printed across the top. John Zebley Jr. dedicated the tune to the members of the Mercantile Baseball Club of Philadelphia, one of the city's amateur clubs in the years when the game was still organizing itself. The cover was lithographed by T. Sinclair's firm in Philadelphia, a commercial printer that produced many music covers of the period. A quick step was a lively march popular in parlors at the time, so the piece shows how baseball had entered everyday popular culture.
| Subjects | T. Sinclair's Lith., lithographer. |
|---|---|
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,375 × 5,584 px · prints to 15 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 3 |
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