[George Bostic Whitted, baseball player for St. Louis and Philadelphia, full-length, facing right, swinging bat; and full-length, facing left, catching ball] – Antique Print
![[George Bostic Whitted, baseball player for St. Louis and Philadelphia, full-length, facing right, swinging bat; and full-length, facing left, catching ball], [1914 and 1915]. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/47/47f1f55875c1-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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This rare historic photograph captures [George Bostic Whitted, baseball player for St. Louis and Philadelphia, full-length, facing right, swinging bat; and full-length, facing left, catching ball] in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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[George Bostic Whitted, baseball player for St. Louis and Philadelphia, full-length, facing right, swinging bat; and full-length, facing left, catching ball]
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The pair of prints shows George Bostic Whitted in two moments of play, one swinging a bat and facing right, the other catching a ball and facing left, both taken in 1914 and 1915. Whitted, born in 1891, played professionally in St. Louis and Philadelphia, and the record places the photographs in those cities' ballparks. They come from the George Grantham Bain Collection, a body of news photographs made by Bain's agency in the 1910s, when newspapers relied on quick images of sports figures and public events. Full-length views like these were typical of that work and show a player's stance and form, which were often the focus of baseball coverage of the period.
| Created / published | [1914 and 1915]. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 2 photographic prints. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1910-1920. |
| Notes | George Grantham Bain Collection. |
| Subjects | Whitted, George Bostic,--1891-1962. Baseball players--Missouri--Saint Louis--1910-1920. Baseball players--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,253 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-188331 |
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