The American National Game of Base Ball – Vintage Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this historic image of The American National Game of Base Ball. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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The American National Game of Base Ball
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Currier & Ives published this lithograph in 1866, when baseball was still mostly played by amateur clubs in and around New York. The title's claim to be the "American National Game" reflected a growing sense that baseball was distinctly home-grown, even as it was borrowing from older bat-and-ball games. Cheap color lithographs like this one reached a broad market, so the print also shows how ordinary Americans pictured the sport in the years after the Civil War.
| Original scan | 1,600 × 1,200 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 46 |
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