George McConnell, New York AL (baseball) – Historic Reproduction
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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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A window into the past: George McConnell, New York AL (baseball), preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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George McConnell, New York AL (baseball)
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Here the subject is pitcher George McConnell, shown in a New York American League uniform, with the caption shortening the club to "Yanks." The team had been called the Highlanders until 1913, when it took the Yankees name, so the wording reflects a club in transition. McConnell pitched for New York in the years around 1913, a period when baseball was rapidly gaining a mass audience in the city. The picture comes from the Bain News Service, a New York photo agency whose glass negatives record city life and sports in the early twentieth century.
| 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: McConnell, Yanks. 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 | 5,766 × 4,210 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-14883 |
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