The big league has nothing on this game – Vintage Print
(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: The big league has nothing on this game, 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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A August 5, 1930, game in Plano, Illinois, gives this photograph its subject, and its title sets the women's contest against the major leagues: "The big league has nothing on this game." Women's baseball drew sizable crowds in the 1920s and 1930s, when touring and town teams played exhibitions that mixed real competition with showmanship. The print comes from the Wittemann Collection at the Library of Congress, and its wry caption suggests the players and promoters wanted spectators to see the local game as a worthy rival to professional ball.
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
|---|---|
| Genre | Ill. Forms part of: Wittemann Collection (Library of Congress)." |
| Notes | 1930 August 5. |
| Subjects | Women--Sports--Illinois--Plano--1930. Baseball--Illinois--Plano--1930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,793 × 4,721 px · prints to 19 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | tif18596_Thebigleaguehasnothingonthisga |
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