Game between Boston NL and New York NL at Polo Grounds (baseball) – Vintage Wall Art
![Game between Boston NL and New York NL at Polo Grounds (baseball), [1910] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/21/21888f029499-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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A window into the past: Game between Boston NL and New York NL at Polo Grounds (baseball), preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Game between Boston NL and New York NL at Polo Grounds (baseball)
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The title places this game at the Polo Grounds, the Upper Manhattan ballpark where the New York National League club played for decades, though the original Bain caption had guessed at American League Park. Boston's National League team was then known as the Doves, and their 1910 meetings with New York drew large crowds to the Polo Grounds. The picture is a small glass negative made by the Bain News Service, a New York photo agency that supplied newspapers with pictures of the day's news. Its date rests on later research by baseball historians rather than on a firm record from the time, so the exact game remains uncertain.
| Created / published | [1910] |
|---|---|
| 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: Unidentifed photo, possibly American League Park, game betw. Boston & N.Y. 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 | 5,835 × 4,241 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-9153 |
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![[Boston and New York players on opening day, 1886, at the Polo Grounds, 5th Ave. & 110th St., N.Y.C. posed in front of stands; Boston player in back rowon left has his middle finger raised in obscene gesture]](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/e1/e1ce42879035-400.webp)