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[John Franklin Baker, baseball player for Philadelphia Athletics, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, wearing baseball uniform] – Historic Photograph Print

[John Franklin Baker, baseball player for Philadelphia Athletics, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, wearing baseball uniform], [1914] — historic photograph
[John Franklin Baker, baseball player for Philadelphia Athletics, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, wearing baseball uniform], [1914]. 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [John Franklin Baker, baseball player for Philadelphia Athletics, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, wearing baseball uniform]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Few players of the 1910s left a bigger mark on the Philadelphia Athletics than John Franklin Baker, the third baseman whose "Home Run" nickname came from his power at the plate. In this 1914 portrait he faces the camera squarely in uniform, a plain, formal study of a player who had already led the American League in home runs and helped the A's win three World Series. The picture comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, a body of news photographs made for the Bain News Service in New York, and its date rests on later research by baseball historians.

Created / published[1914]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1910-1920.Photographic prints 1910-1920.
NotesGeorge Grantham Bain Collection. Date based on research by the Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Baseball Research, 2006.
SubjectsBaker, John Franklin,--1886-1963. Baseball players--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--1910-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,142 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-168835

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