Hank O'Day, umpire (baseball) – Antique Wall Art
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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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Hank O'Day, umpire (baseball). An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Hank O'Day, umpire (baseball)
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Hank O'Day is shown here in his umpire's role, a line of work he moved into after a playing career as a pitcher in the 1880s. The date given for this glass negative is 1911, a year when O'Day was a well-known National League umpire. He is remembered for his part in the 1908 game decided by "Merkle's Boner," which made him one of the central figures in one of baseball's most argued rulings. The Bain News Service, a New York photo agency that supplied newspapers, made this image, and its small glass negatives capture the everyday look of the game in the early twentieth century.
| Created / published | [1911] |
|---|---|
| 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: Hank O'Day. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title and date based on research by the Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Baseball Research, 2006. Temp. note: Batch two loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,848 × 4,235 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-7699 |
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