Thomas J. "Buck" O'Brien, Boston, AL (baseball) – Historic Reproduction
![Thomas J. "Buck" O'Brien, Boston, AL (baseball), [ca. 1913] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/bf/bf7e4d2f1377-L.webp)
(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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This historic photograph of Thomas J. "Buck" O'Brien, Boston, AL (baseball) brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Thomas J. "Buck" O'Brien, Boston, AL (baseball)
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This glass negative shows Thomas J. "Buck" O'Brien, a right-handed pitcher for the Boston American League club, which the record identifies as the team he played for around 1913. O'Brien was part of a Red Sox staff that had won the World Series in 1912, the year Fenway Park opened. The Bain News Service, a New York wire photo agency, sent images like this one to newspapers across the country, so the picture reflects how baseball stars were circulated to readers far from Boston. Because the date and title come from later research by the Society for American Baseball Research, the exact year is approximate.
| Created / published | [ca. 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: Buck O'Brien. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title and date based on research by the Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Baseball Research, 2006. Temp. note: Batch three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,191 × 5,747 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-11368 |
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