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[Cy Young, Boston AL, full-length portrait, standing, facing right, throwing baseball] – Vintage Wall Art

[Cy Young, Boston AL, full-length portrait, standing, facing right, throwing baseball], 1908 July 23. — historic photograph
[Cy Young, Boston AL, full-length portrait, standing, facing right, throwing baseball], 1908 July 23.. Historic photograph from the Boston 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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Cy Young, the Boston pitcher, is shown here in a full-length portrait taken in 1908, mid-delivery as he holds a baseball and faces to the right. By that summer Young was past his prime but still a fixture on the Boston American League roster, a veteran whose career stretched back to the 1890s and whose wins total would become legendary. The picture comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, a large body of news photographs gathered by a New York agency in the early 1900s, which captured ballplayers, politicians and street scenes of the era. Its stiff, posed stance reflects how photographers of the period framed athletes for newspaper readers.

Created / published1908 July 23.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1900-1910.Photographic prints 1900-1910.
NotesTitle devised by Library staff. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsYoung, Cy,--1867-1955. Baseball players--Massachusetts--Boston--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,500 × 2,819 px · prints to 12 × 9 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-150604

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