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Sam Crawford, Detroit AL (baseball) – Vintage Print

Sam Crawford, Detroit AL (baseball), [1913] — historic photograph
Sam Crawford, Detroit AL (baseball), [1913]. Historic photograph from the Detroit 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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Sam Crawford, Detroit AL (baseball) comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Sam Crawford, Detroit AL (baseball)

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Outfielder Sam Crawford, nicknamed "Wahoo Sam" after his Nebraska hometown of Wahoo, appears here during his years with the Detroit Tigers, when he was one of the American League's most dangerous hitters. The picture is a glass negative from the Bain News Service, a New York agency that sold news and sports photographs to newspapers in the early twentieth century. Crawford played much of his Detroit career alongside Ty Cobb, and the two helped make the Tigers a regular contender. The 1913 date comes from later research by the Society for American Baseball Research, not from the original caption.

Created / published[1913]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesData provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards: Crawford, Detr. Title and date based on research by the Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Baseball Research, 2006. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch three loaded.
SourceLibrary of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection
Original scan5,848 × 4,248 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-BNN-14772

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