Baker's batting grip - photo - Bain / Bain – Historic Photo Reproduction
(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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Baker's batting grip - photo - Bain / Bain
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A close-up of a batter's hands on the bat, captured as a 5 x 7 inch glass negative, is the detail that sets this picture apart from the many baseball images in the Bain collection. The title credits the grip to someone named Baker, but the record does not give his first name, team, or the date. Bain News Service, a New York picture agency active in the early 1900s through the 1910s, sold news and sports photographs to newspapers, so pictures like this one often served as technique illustrations or game-day filler. The title came from caption cards that have not been independently verified, so the attribution should be checked before it is relied on.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch two loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,747 × 4,204 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-11101 |
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