Hick Cady of Boston Red Sox wins foot race with Jack O'Brien (Boston Red Sox trainer, pin shorts, partially obscured) and teammate Buck O'Brien (looking to his right) at Fenway Park, Boston (baseball) – Vintage Wall Art
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A window into the past: Hick Cady of Boston Red Sox wins foot race with Jack O'Brien (Boston Red Sox trainer, pin shorts, partially obscured) and teammate Buck O'Brien (looking to his right) at Fenway Park, Boston (baseball), preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Hick Cady of Boston Red Sox wins foot race with Jack O'Brien (Boston Red Sox trainer, pin shorts, partially obscured) and teammate Buck O'Brien (looking to his right) at Fenway Park, Boston (baseball)
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Catcher Hick Cady is shown winning a foot race at Fenway Park, with Red Sox trainer Jack O'Brien and pitcher Buck O'Brien among the competitors. Fenway had opened only that spring, in April 1912, and the Red Sox went on to win the World Series that autumn. Informal races like this one were a common diversion for players during the season, and the Bain News Service, a New York photo agency, documented many such moments for newspaper use. The date of September 25, 1912 comes from later research by the Society for American Baseball Research's Pictorial History Committee.
| Created / published | [1912 Sept. 25] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards: Cady winning Red Sox foot race, 1912. 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 | 5,729 × 4,191 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-12095 |
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