Christy Mathewson & Jeff Tesreau, New York NL, at Polo Grounds (baseball) – Historic Print
![Christy Mathewson & Jeff Tesreau, New York NL, at Polo Grounds (baseball), [1914] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/e9/e9715bc6611b-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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A window into the past: Christy Mathewson & Jeff Tesreau, New York NL, at Polo Grounds (baseball), preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Christy Mathewson & Jeff Tesreau, New York NL, at Polo Grounds (baseball)
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Two of the most celebrated pitchers of the early 1910s stand together in this glass negative from the Polo Grounds, the Giants' home in upper Manhattan. Christy Mathewson, a Hall of Fame right-hander, anchored the New York staff for well over a decade, and Jeff Tesreau, a hard-throwing righty, was one of the younger arms he helped develop. The picture comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, a news service archive that documented sports and daily life in New York during the period. Its caption spells Mathewson's name "Matthewson," a common error in the period's press, and the date of 1914 was assigned later by researchers rather than recorded on the original.
| Created / published | [1914] |
|---|---|
| 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: Matthewson & Tesreau, Giants. Title and date based on research by the Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Baseball Research, 2006. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,760 × 4,191 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-15142 |
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