Smoky Joe Wood, Boston AL (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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Smoky Joe Wood, Boston AL (baseball) comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Smoky Joe Wood, Boston AL (baseball)
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Smoky Joe Wood, the Boston American League pitcher, is the subject of this glass negative, and in 1912 he won 34 games for the Red Sox, one of the strongest seasons by a pitcher of that era. His nickname came from a fastball that batters struggled to see. Bain News Service, a New York wire photo agency, made many pictures of ballplayers during this period, and its glass negatives record how the sport was presented to newspaper readers. The 1912 date comes from later research by the Society for American Baseball Research.
| Created / published | [1912] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards: Wood, Bosox. Title and date based on research by the Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Baseball Research, 2006. Temp. note: Batch three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,772 × 4,179 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-11556 |
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