Jim Pastorius & Nap Rucker, Brooklyn NL (baseball) – Historic Reproduction
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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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Step back in time with Jim Pastorius & Nap Rucker, Brooklyn NL (baseball), a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Jim Pastorius & Nap Rucker, Brooklyn NL (baseball)
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Two Brooklyn National League players, Jim Pastorius and Nap Rucker, stand on the field in this 1909 glass negative. Rucker was a left-handed pitcher who spent most of his career with Brooklyn, while Pastorius was a utility player on the same club. The photograph comes from the Bain News Service, a New York agency that sold pictures of athletes, politicians and news events to newspapers. The date and identification rest on later research by the Society for American Baseball Research, so the picture is a useful record of a Brooklyn team in the Dead Ball Era.
| Created / published | [1909] |
|---|---|
| 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: Pastorius and Rucker, ball players for Brooklyn Nationals, on field. 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 one loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,722 × 4,210 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-4513 |
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