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Baseball player with bat in Reds uniform, vintage photograph – Historic Photo Reproduction

Baseball player with bat in Reds uniform, vintage photograph — historic photograph
Baseball player with bat in Reds uniform, vintage photograph. Historic photograph from the Wine, Beer & Spirits collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Baseball player with bat in Reds uniform, vintage photograph. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

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Baseball player with bat in Reds uniform, vintage photograph

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A ballplayer in a Cincinnati Reds uniform poses with a bat, the kind of portrait that was common when team photographs and player cards were how fans followed the game. The Reds trace their roots to the Cincinnati Red Stockings of 1869, widely regarded as the first openly all-professional baseball club, so the uniform connects the picture to one of the sport's longest-running franchises. The record does not name the player or date the image, but the bat, the flannel-era styling, and the plain studio-style backdrop reflect how teams presented their men to the public in earlier decades.

Original scan1,150 × 985 px
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