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Pittsburgh players practicing, Pittsburgh, NL (baseball) – Antique Print

Pittsburgh players practicing, Pittsburgh, NL (baseball), [1911] — historic photograph
Pittsburgh players practicing, Pittsburgh, NL (baseball), [1911]. Historic photograph from the Pittsburgh collection.

(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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This historic photograph of Pittsburgh players practicing, Pittsburgh, NL (baseball) brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Glass negatives like this one, made in 1911, capture the Pittsburgh National League club at practice, a routine that was seldom photographed in detail. The picture comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, which holds work from the Bain News Service, a New York agency that sold news photographs to newspapers in the early 1900s. Pittsburgh's team had been strong in the years before, and by 1911 the club was playing in Forbes Field, which had opened in 1909. Pictures like this one show the everyday work behind a season's games.

Created / published[1911]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesData provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards: Pitts Players practicing [baseball]. 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.
SourceLibrary of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection
Original scan5,779 × 4,159 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-BNN-10617

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