Smoky Joe Wood, Boston AL (baseball) – Antique Wall Art
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(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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Step back in time with Smoky Joe Wood, Boston AL (baseball), a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Smoky Joe Wood, Boston AL (baseball)
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Few pitchers have had a season like the one Joe Wood put together in 1912, when he won 34 games for Boston and earned the nickname "Smoky" for his fastball. This glass negative from the Bain News Service, one of the earliest press photo agencies, captures him at the height of that run. The team went on to beat the New York Giants in the World Series that fall, and Bain's pictures of players like Wood circulated widely in newspapers of the day. Wood later played the outfield as well, but in 1912 he was the story on the mound.
| Created / published | [1912] |
|---|---|
| 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: Wood, Bosox. 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 | 5,760 × 4,191 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-11553 |
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