Eppa Rixey (left) & Erskine Mayer (right), Philadelphia NL, at Polo Grounds, NY (baseball) – Historic Print
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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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This rare historic photograph captures Eppa Rixey (left) & Erskine Mayer (right), Philadelphia NL, at Polo Grounds, NY (baseball) in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Eppa Rixey (left) & Erskine Mayer (right), Philadelphia NL, at Polo Grounds, NY (baseball)
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Two Philadelphia Phillies pitchers, Eppa Rixey on the left and Erskine Mayer on the right, stand together at the Polo Grounds in New York, the home ballpark of the New York Giants. Rixey, a left-hander, went on to a long career and was later elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. The picture is a glass negative from the Bain News Service, a New York agency that sold news and sports photographs to newspapers in the early 1900s. Its date of about 1913 comes from later research by baseball historians, so it offers a useful glimpse of the players' uniforms and the setting of a pre-World War I ballpark.
| Created / published | [1913] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards: Luderus, Phils. Title and date based on research by the Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Baseball Research, 2006. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,692 × 4,191 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-13515 |
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