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Detroit Baseball Club leaving for training headquarters in San Antonio, Texas – Vintage Print

Detroit Baseball Club leaving for training headquarters in San Antonio, Texas, [ca. 1908] — historic photograph
Detroit Baseball Club leaving for training headquarters in San Antonio, Texas, [ca. 1908]. Historic photograph from the Baseball 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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This rare historic photograph captures Detroit Baseball Club leaving for training headquarters in San Antonio, Texas in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Detroit Baseball Club leaving for training headquarters in San Antonio, Texas

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Detroit's ballplayers are shown departing for their training headquarters in San Antonio, Texas, a reminder that major league teams of the early 1900s spent their spring preparing in warmer southern cities before the regular season opened. Spring training was then still informal, and a trip of this kind meant long train rides with the whole squad, equipment, and staff. The picture comes from the Bain News Service, a New York agency that sold news photographs to newspapers, so it was made to be published and to capture a moment of public interest. Its group composition and travel setting make it a useful record of how the sport and its teams worked before the modern era.

Created / published[ca. 1908]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenreGroup portraits 1900-1910.Portrait photographs 1900-1910.Photographic prints 1900-1910.
NotesTitle from item. Bain News Service photograph. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsDetroit Tigers (Baseball team)--People--1900-1910. Baseball players--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan5,100 × 4,135 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-210893

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