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[Frank Gilhooley, baseball player with the New York Yankees, swings his bat at home plate] – Historic Print

[Frank Gilhooley, baseball player with the New York Yankees, swings his bat at home plate], [1913] — historic photograph
[Frank Gilhooley, baseball player with the New York Yankees, swings his bat at home plate], [1913]. 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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Frank Gilhooley is caught mid-swing at home plate in this 1913 print, a moment that captures the batter's full weight and follow-through rather than a posed stance. He played for the New York Yankees in the years when the club was still known as the Highlanders, before the name change in 1913, and the photograph belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection, whose news photographers documented ballplayers, boxers and street life in New York during the 1910s. Images like this one are valuable for showing the bat, stance and equipment of the period, when baseball gloves were small and uniforms were heavy flannel.

Created / published[1913]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1910-1920.Photographic prints 1910-1920.
NotesTitle devised by Library staff. Date based on research by the Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Baseball Research, 2006. Inscribed on item: Gilhooley. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsGilhooley, Frank Patrick,--1892-1959. New York Yankees (Baseball team)--People--1910-1920. Baseball players--1910-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,282 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-209204

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