Bill McKechnie, Boston NL (baseball) – Vintage 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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Bill McKechnie, Boston NL (baseball) comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Bill McKechnie, Boston NL (baseball)
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A glass negative of Bill McKechnie in a Boston National League uniform, catalogued as 1913, places him early in a career that would later earn him a place in the Baseball Hall of Fame. McKechnie was a third baseman in these years before he became one of the era's most respected managers, and his 1940 World Series title with the Cincinnati Reds is the achievement most often associated with his name. The Bain News Service, a New York wire-photo agency, produced negatives like this one for newspapers that wanted quick portraits of players, so the picture reflects how the sporting press documented the game in the early 1900s. The 1913 date comes from later research by the Society for American Baseball Research rather than from the original caption.
| 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: McKechnie. 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 | 5,735 × 4,197 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-13192 |
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