St. Louis Cardinals Baseball Team, Missouri, 1909 – 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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A window into the past: St. Louis Cardinals Baseball Team, Missouri, 1909, preserved in this historic image. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: St. Louis Cardinals, 1909
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St. Louis Cardinals Baseball Team, Missouri, 1909
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In 1909 the St. Louis Cardinals were a National League club playing at Robison Field on the city's north side, while the American League Browns played across town, so the city had two professional teams competing for the same fans. The Cardinals were a weak team that season, and their owners, the Robison brothers, were known more for running a business than for winning pennants. St. Louis at that time was one of the largest industrial cities in the country, with shoe factories, breweries, tobacco works, and meatpacking houses, and its 1910 census count would reach nearly 700,000. Baseball drew crowds of working men on weekday afternoons and Sunday doubleheaders, and a team photograph like this one was a way for a city proud of its growth to see its own club.
| Created / published | 1909 |
|---|---|
| Creator | bell & palfrey |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Missouri |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 955 px · prints to 18 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | St. Louis Cardinals, 1909 |
| Reference | MO St. Louis Cardinals Baseball Team 1909 |
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