Red Dooin, Philadelphia, NL (baseball) – Antique Print
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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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Red Dooin, Philadelphia, NL (baseball)
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Red Dooin, the Philadelphia Phillies catcher whose red hair gave him his nickname, is the subject of this glass-plate portrait, which dates to about 1911. The caption on the negative spells his name "Doolin?" with a question mark, a sign that the Bain News Service was unsure of the spelling, and the title was later confirmed by baseball researchers at the Society for American Baseball Research. Dooin caught for the Phillies for well over a decade in the National League's early twentieth century, when the catcher's job meant heavy equipment and little padding. Bain News Service, a New York photo agency, supplied newspapers with pictures like this one, so the plate offers a quick look at how working ballplayers were presented to the public.
| Created / published | [ca. 1911] |
|---|---|
| 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: [Doolin?] (Phila. Nat.). 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 two loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,735 × 4,222 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-10738 |
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