Cy Young, Boston AL, full-length portrait, standing, facing right, throwing baseball – Historic Photo Reproduction
(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 rare historic image captures Cy Young, Boston AL, full-length portrait, standing, facing right, throwing baseball in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Cy Young, Boston AL, full-length portrait, standing, facing right, throwing baseball
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Cy Young is shown here in a full-length pose, mid-delivery with a baseball in hand, the kind of motion that defined his long career on the mound. Taken around 1908, the picture dates to his years with the Boston Americans, the American League club that later became the Red Sox. Young pitched for Boston from 1901 through 1908 and was among the most durable starters of his era, and his name still stands for the award given each year to the league's best pitcher. The photograph comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, a large body of news photographs that the Library of Congress holds, which makes it a useful record of how early ballplayers were presented to the public.
| Created / published | c. 1908 |
|---|---|
| Notes | George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. c. 1908 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,221 × 3,780 px · prints to 17 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 61 |
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