Classic Baseball Players

A series of historical baseball players in action, featuring pitchers in vintage attire on the field, capturing the spirit and nostalgia of early baseball.

Willie Mitchell, Cleveland AL (baseball)

Manager Jake Stahl, Boston AL (baseball)

George McConnell, New York AL (baseball)

Joe Connolly, Boston NL (baseball)

Nixey Callahan, manager, Chicago AL (baseball)

Claud Derrick, Philadelphia AL, at Hilltop Park, NY (baseball)

Pat Ragan, Brooklyn NL (baseball)

Hal Chase, Chicago AL (baseball)

Charlie Babington, New York NL (baseball)

Tillie Shafer, New York NL (baseball)

Sam Agnew, Boston AL (baseball)

Frank "Home Run" Baker, Major League Baseball Player, Philadelphia Athletics, Portrait, Bain News Service, 1913

Cardinals' One Armed Practice Pitcher In Action -- Orville Paul, the St. Louis Cardinals' one-armed batting practice pitcher, winding up to throw out a fast one during practice at the Polo Grounds here, May 24th. He wears no glove. But his throwing arm is so tough that he can grab hot drives through the box. May 24, 1938. (Photo by ACME).

Clyde Milan, Washington AL (baseball)

Kumagae tennis

Mikami tennis

New York Yankees pitcher Carl Mays on the mound in 1922. In 1920, he threw a 'submarine' pitch that beaned and killed Cleveland Indians' Ray Chapman. It was the first fatal player injury during a major league baseball game. (BSLOC_2015_17_12)

Bill Stumpf, New York Highlanders, AL, at Hilltop Park, NY (baseball)

Ernie R. Johnson, Chicago AL (baseball)

Billy Orr, Herb Pennock, Weldon Wyckoff, Joe Bush, Bob Shawkey, Amos Strunk, Philadelphia AL (baseball)

Rube Marquard, Brooklyn NL (baseball)

Tom F. Daley, Philadelphia AL (baseball)

John McGraw (New York NL) at left, speaking to Jake Stahl (Boston AL) prior to a game of the 1912 World Series at the Polo Grounds, NY, October 1912 (baseball)

Joe Bush, Philadelphia AL (baseball)

Deciding rules, Phila., 10/8/15

George Herman Ruth 'Babe Ruth', (1895-1948), Baseball Player

William E. "Wild Bill" Donovan, New York AL (baseball)

Al Bridwell, St. Louis Federal League (baseball)

Connie Mack & Ira Thomas (coach), Philadelphia AL (baseball)

Frank Chance, Chicago NL baseball player, standing at home plate, with bat in hand about to swing, the catcher, Pat Moran, Chicago NL, stands to the left ready to receive the pitched ball

Pol Perritt (St. Louis NL), Art Fletcher (New York), Miller Huggins and Lee Magee, (St. Louis NL)

Cy Falkenberg, Cleveland AL, at Polo Grounds, NY (baseball)

Hank Gowdy, Lefty Tyler, Joey Connolly, Boston NL (baseball)

Milton Warner, P, Rayen High School, Youngstown, Ohio (baseball)

Wendell - Ex-capt. Harvard

Anefo photo collection. International hockey week in Haarlem. Game moment from the USAF England competition against Kieviten Nederland. 30 June 1963. Haarlem

New York Giants. Top row (left to right): (partially obscured) Art Fletcher, George Burns, Art Wilson, Red Ames, Art Devlin, Christy Mathewson, Hooks Wiltse, Grover Hartley. Bottom row: Beals Becker, John McGraw, Buck Herzog, Fred Merkle, Bert Maxwell, Doc Crandall, Gene Paulette, and an unknown player (baseball)

Chick Evans

Andy Sheridan

Ted Easterly, Chicago AL (baseball)

Casey Stengel, Full-Length Portrait wearing Sunglasses while Playing Outfield for Brooklyn Dodgers, George Grantham Bain Collection, 1915

Harry Heilman, Major League Baseball Player, Detroit Tigers, Portrait, National Photo Company, 1924

Ralph "Sailor" Stroud, New York NL (baseball)

Miller Huggins, St. Louis NL (baseball)

Boston AL team photo (baseball)

New York Giants team picture , Baseball players, New York Giants Baseball team. Michael T. -Nuf Ced- McGreevy Collection

Red Sox of Brighton. Jack Ryan Coach

Christy Mathewson (New York Giants) pitches as Larry McLean (New York Giants) catches in Game Two of the 1913 World Series at Shibe Park Philadelphia (baseball)

Leslie, Harvard

James "Wickey" McAvoy, Philadelphia NL (baseball)

Rube Marquard, New York NL (baseball)

Otto Miller, Brooklyn NL (baseball)

Gene Cocreham, Boston NL (baseball)

Joe Bush, Philadelphia AL (baseball)

Bill L. James (pitcher), Bill Dahlen, & Cy Seymour, Brooklyn NL (baseball)

Lillian Lee - 1st Base -Actor's Benefit for Crippled Children

Rudolph Bald Head. Dick Rudolph.

Rube Foster, Carl Mays, Ernie Shore, Babe Ruth, Dutch Leonard, Boston AL, 10/7/1915 (baseball)

J.A. Donaldson

"Shoeless" Joe Jackson - Cleveland Indians - American League Baseball, 1913

Semmens

Wilbert Robinson, Brooklyn NL (baseball)

Umpires with managers John McGraw (back to camera), New York NL, and Jake Stahl, Boston AL, first game of 1912 World Series (baseball)

Ira Thomas (left) & Connie Mack (right), Philadelphia AL (baseball)

Frank Metz, first baseman, Boston NL (baseball)

Hick Cady of Boston Red Sox wins foot race with Jack O'Brien (Boston Red Sox trainer, pin shorts, partially obscured) and teammate Buck O'Brien (looking to his right) at Fenway Park, Boston (baseball)

Joe Tinker, 1913, when he was a player-manager with the Cincinnati Reds for one season (BSLOC_2018_3_124)

ARMY NURSES PLAY BASEBALL WITH WACS IN ITALY. It is the first baseball game ever to be played in the Mediterranean Theater between Wacs and Nurses. Some 4,000 GI spectators, members of the Air Service Command and Adriatic Depot

Frank Gibson at left, Detroit AL (baseball)

Stahl and McAleer, Hot Springs, Arkansas , Baseball managers, Boston Red Sox Baseball team. Michael T. -Nuf Ced- McGreevy Collection

R.N. Williams

Capt. Baker, Princeton

Sherry Magee, Philadelphia NL (baseball)

George "Rube" Foster, Carl Mays, Ernest "Ernie" Shore, George Herman "Babe" Ruth, Hubert "Dutch" Leonard, Boston Red Sox, Underwood and Underwood, 1915

Clarence "Pop-Boy" Smith, Chicago AL (baseball)

Ty Cobb in a 1913 batting photo taken in Washington, DC. (BSLOC_2018_3_144)

Deming

Man swinging golf club in the Washington, D.C., area ca. 1909.

1915. Babe Ruth and other Red Sox Pitchers, Pictured from L to R George Foster, Carl William Mays, Ernest Shore, "Babe" Ruth, Hubert Benjamin Leonard.

George "Rube" Foster, Carl Mays, Ernie Shore, George Herman "Babe" Ruth, Hubert Benjamin "Dutch" Leonard, full-length Portrait in Boston Red Sox Baseball Uniforms, Underwood & Underwood, 1915

Jeff Tesreau, New York NL (baseball)

Anefo photo collection. Baseball VVGA against Haarlem Nicols 0-5, Boudewijn size beats homerun. 11 July 1965. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Pres. Taft at Wash-Chicago baseball game 2/4/30

Logan H'v'd (i.e., Harvard)

Beals Becker, New York, NL (baseball)

Frank Chance and Hugh Jennings, 1907 World Series , Baseball players, Baseball, Detroit Tigers Baseball team, Chicago Cubs Baseball team, Jennings, Hughie, 1869-1928, Chance, Frank L. Frank Leroy, 1877-1924. Michael T. -Nuf Ced- McGreevy Collection

Welch, Carlisle

Williams

Otis Clymer, Washington AL (now Senators) batting, and Red Kleinow, New York Yankees catching, 1909 (BSLOC_2018_4_127)

Fleming

Pres. William H. Taft playing golf, Chevy Chase Country Club, 3 other men in picture, 1909 June 28

Rucker, Brooklyn pitcher.

W. Hammond, Princeton

Poole - Simplex, 24 hour race, Brighton Beach

01/01/1950. Don Santiago Bernabeu.

White, Yale

Yale: Catlin

Eddie Collins, Philadelphia AL (baseball)

John J. "Rip" Egan, AL umpire (baseball)

Jim Scott, Chicago AL (baseball)

Baldy Louden, Buffalo Federal League (baseball)

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