Chief Bender, Philadelphia AL (baseball) – Vintage Print
![Chief Bender, Philadelphia AL (baseball), [1913] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/4d/4d2815893640-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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Chief Bender, Philadelphia AL (baseball). The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Chief Bender, Philadelphia AL (baseball)
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Few pitchers of the 1910s were as well known as Charles "Chief" Bender, the Ojibwe right-hander shown here, who anchored the Philadelphia Athletics' rotation for most of that decade. The original caption identified the subject only as an unidentified player, possibly of the Boston Red Sox, but a 2006 review by the Society for American Baseball Research's Pictorial History Committee assigned the Bender identification and the 1913 date. The Bain News Service, the photo agency that produced this glass negative, supplied newspapers with pictures like this one, so the portrait reflects how ballplayers were photographed for mass readers around that time.
| Created / published | [1913] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards: [Unidentified baseball player, possibly a member of the Boston Red Sox]. Title and date based on research by the Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Baseball Research, 2006. Temp. note: Batch three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,734 × 4,241 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-11554 |
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