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Boston Baseball, 1861 to 1919, Applewood's Pictorial America book cover – Antique Wall Art

Boston Baseball, 1861 to 1919, Applewood's Pictorial America book cover — historic image
Boston Baseball, 1861 to 1919, Applewood's Pictorial America book cover. Historic image from the Boston Baseball collection.

(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: Boston Baseball, 1861 to 1919, Applewood's Pictorial America book cover, preserved in this historic image. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

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Boston Baseball, 1861 to 1919, Applewood's Pictorial America book cover

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The cover belongs to a volume in Applewood's Pictorial America series, a collection of vintage photographs with captions, and this one gathers images of Boston baseball across the years 1861 to 1919. That span begins with the sport's early amateur clubs and ends after the Red Sox had become a championship team, so the book traces a long shift from informal sandlot play to organized professional leagues. Covers in this series typically feature one of the photographs inside, which gives a quick sense of the era's ballparks, uniforms, and crowds. Readers interested in the period's sports culture will find the cover a useful first look at the material.

Original scan3,134 × 2,550 px · prints to 10 × 8 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceRed Sox Book Cover

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