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[Army and Navy baseball game, Rome, Italy: 2 sailors with mascot, a goat, in front of crowd of spectators] – Vintage Print

[Army and Navy baseball game, Rome, Italy: 2 sailors with mascot, a goat, in front of crowd of spectators], [beteween 1914 and 1918] — historic photograph
[Army and Navy baseball game, Rome, Italy: 2 sailors with mascot, a goat, in front of crowd of spectators], [beteween 1914 and 1918]. 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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A goat stands at the center of this photograph, flanked by two sailors and watched by a crowd of spectators at an Army and Navy baseball game in Rome. Mascots such as goats were a familiar part of military sport, and the animal gives the scene a lighter touch amid the wartime setting. The caption card dates the picture to between 1914 and 1918, when American service members were stationed in Italy and baseball was a popular way for troops abroad to keep up morale. The record's details are unverified, so the exact occasion and players remain uncertain.

Created / published[beteween 1914 and 1918]
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsThis record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: WWI--Italy; Geogr.; B.I.; Sports--Baseball; Mascots; Navy, U.S.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,214 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-156142

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