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[Frank Chance, Chicago NL baseball player, standing at home plate, with bat in hand about to swing, the catcher, Pat Moran, Chicago NL, stands to the left ready to receive the pitched ball] – Historic Reproduction

[Frank Chance, Chicago NL baseball player, standing at home plate, with bat in hand about to swing, the catcher, Pat Moran, Chicago NL, stands to the left ready to receive the pitched ball], [1909] — historic photograph
[Frank Chance, Chicago NL baseball player, standing at home plate, with bat in hand about to swing, the catcher, Pat Moran, Chicago NL, stands to the left ready to receive the pitched ball], [1909]. Historic photograph from the Baseball 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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Step back in time with [Frank Chance, Chicago NL baseball player, standing at home plate, with bat in hand about to swing, the catcher, Pat Moran, Chicago NL, stands to the left ready to receive the pitched ball], 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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[Frank Chance, Chicago NL baseball player, standing at home plate, with bat in hand about to swing, the catcher, Pat Moran, Chicago NL, stands to the left ready to receive the pitched ball]

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Frank Chance stands at home plate with his bat cocked and ready to swing, while catcher Pat Moran waits to the left to receive the pitch. Chance, the Chicago National League first baseman who also managed the club, was a central figure on the Cubs teams that won pennants in the middle of the decade. The picture comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection of early news photographs, so it shows a working moment of the game rather than a posed portrait. The 1909 date comes from later research by the Society for American Baseball Research.

Created / published[1909]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1900-1910.
NotesTitle 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).
SubjectsChance, Frank L. (Frank Leroy),--1877-1924. Moran, Pat,--1876-1924. Baseball players--Illinois--Chicago--1900-1910. Baseball--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan5,105 × 4,156 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-209189

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