Historic Baseball Players

Vintage baseball cards featuring players in action poses from the late 1800s, showcasing early baseball attire and equipment.

Illustration showing a lady skating on ice. Date: 1934

`Żołnierz na nartach` Soldier on skis - Sculpture by Olga Niewska award of the Polish Minister for military affairs for victory in the patrol run during the international skiing competition in Zakopane in 1927.. unknown, photographer

Two sumo-groetters and a referee. .

Published by Vincent Robert Alfred Brooks, 1814-1885, British, Jockeys of the Victorian and Edwardian Turf executed by Spy and others for the 'Vanity Fair' Series. Chromolithograph.

Leslie Matthew 'Spy' Ward, 1851-1922, British, Vanity Fair - Cricket. 'Forty-six centuries in eleven years'. J.T. Tyldesley. 8 August 1906, 1906. Chromolithograph.

01/20/1916. In the image, the two pelotaris, Elola and Navarrete.

Animal locomotion. Plate 59 , Men, Running, Human locomotion, an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal movements

Woman playing tennis in long white skirt Date: 1903

Casting for salmon , Fishing, Rivers. Frank W. Benson (1862-1951). Prints and Drawings

Two sumo wrestlers and a referee, c. 1887 - in or before 1897 photograph Yokohamajapan photographic support albumen print wrestling (sport) (+ the contest (sports, games, etc.)). wrestling (sport) (+ judge, umpire, referee (sports, games, etc.))

ritratto di donna, tennis su erba

A 12-14 year old child in a tennis outfit and a 11-13 year old girl in a tennis dress, engraving from La Mode Illustree, No 14, April 3, 1910.

Roller skating, Nov. 8, 1910

Advertisement for Humber cycles, endorsed (apparently) by King Edward VII. At least he is pictured riding one. Date: 1902

Illustration of George Parr (1826-1891), the cricketer who represented Nottinghamshire, Surrey, Sussex, Kent and the MCC between 1844 and 1870. He was one of the finest cricketers of his day, scoring over 6000 runs in 207 first-class matches. Date: 1897

Sports - Golf - Miss Katharine Harley, former champion of the U.S. won at Chevy Chase, 1908

Study of Indian Riding, c. 1890, Walter Shirlaw, American, 1838 - 1909, 6 1/2 x 4 in. (16.51 x 10.16 cm), Graphite, United States, 19th century

Male swimmer admiring a lady diver, who appears to have suffered a wardrobe malfunction (in the chest region) on her descent toward the waves! The postcard bears the (slightly odd) strapline: 'That's for mine!' Date: circa 1905

Newspaper article featuring an athlete practicing the 110 Meter race in 1905

Cartoon - Summer Sports Arthur George Racey (1870-1941)

People's Home Journal: Tennis, Tennis

Jockey Joe Childs, pictured in the colours of King George V. Childs was the King's first jockey and rode many winners in recent seasons for the Beckhampton stables, including Coronach. Date: 1927

Joseph Start, Atlantic Nine of 1870. 1870. Spalding, A. G. (Albert Goodwill). Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Baseball, Baseball

Rowing is an excellent exercise, vintage engraved illustration.

1900s ILLUSTRATION WOMEN LADY IN LONG SKIRT PLAYING ICE HOCKEY GUIDING PUCK ON ICE WITH STICK AS WELL DRESSED AUDIENCE WATCHES

A new sport in California - birdmen launch themselves from high springboards Date: 1939

Two players watch critically as their companion drives from the tee. Date: 1913

Room gymnastics; New Dutch childrens prints; Funke's prints. Leaf with 17 shows of boys demonstrating sports and gymnastics exercises. Numbered at the top right: No. 2.

May, 1894 - Examples of bicycle exercises performed in Leipzig, Germany from Scientific American Magazine. May, 1894.

Vanity Fair: Jockeys; Count Strickland, May 4, 1893, unknown artist, 1893, Chromolithograph

Vanity Fair - Cricket. 'Hampshire'. Captain Edward Wynyard. 25 August 1898, Francis Carruthers Gould, 1844-1925, British, 1898, Chromolithograph

Gymnastics I., Praktischer Hausschatz der Heilkunde, II. volume, 1930, Heinrich Killinger, Nordhausen

Series of photographs showing Tommy Burns (1881-1955), the Canadian heavyweight boxer, boxing with a sparring partner, 1908. Burns was World Heavyweight Champion between 1906 and 1908. Date: 1908

Medieval bowling. Three men playing bowls with a jack, 14th century. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, Chatto and Windus, London, 1876.

Illustration depicting the essentials for a cricket player, including a uniform, bat and stumps. Dated 19th century

Aurelio Arteta, Pelota players or A game of Pelota, 1925-1930, oil on canvas, Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao, Spain, Europe

Master Shot, Canoeing, Fishing & Hunting

Portrait of Fuller Pilch (1803-1870) an English cricketer, described as "the greatest batsman ever known until the appearance of W. G. Grace". Dated 19th century

Boxers. ... / N 8. (title registered) | British morals (IFF 37) (title of all)

Finklädd yngling får upp flåset i dåtidens trappmaskin, en velocipedgångsapparat. English:A well-dressed youth gets into shape by using the predecessor of the stair-climber a velocipede-stepping apparatus.

Cartoon depicting men playing cricket. Dated 19th century

Engraving showing two competitors on 'Penny Farthing' or 'Ordinary' bicycles in the 25 mile Race for the Amateur Bicycle Championship at the Lillie Bridge Velodrome, London, 1875. Date: 1875

Engraving depicting a young lady practising her archery skills. Dated 19th century

Batsman, Batter, batsman at baseball, ball game, ca 1860 / Batsmann, Batter, Schlagmann beim Baseball, Ballspiel, ca 1860, Historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert,.

Trick No. 9 - 'How, when lying at length on two chair-backs placed at your extremities, to support a person standing on your chest' from 'How to Pose as a Strong Man' an article by Edward William Barton-Wright in Pearson's Magazine, March 1899. Barton-Wright developed a hybrid martial art which he called Bartitsu, after studying in Japan. Date: 1899

High Jumping, from the Games and Sports series (N165) for Old Judge Cigarettes 1889 Issued by Goodwin & Company The "Games and Sports" series of trading cards (N165) was issued by Goodwin & Company in 1889 to promote Old Judge Cigarettes. The Metropolitan Museum of Art owns all 50 cards in the series.. High Jumping, from the Games and Sports series (N165) for Old Judge Cigarettes. 1889. Commercial color lithograph. Issued by Goodwin & Company

Larry" Catching and Cooking Trout, Yellowstone National Park. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park, Fishing, Islands

'Cycling 1839-1939 front cover', 1939. Artist: Unknown.

Larry" Catching and Cooking Trout, Yellowstone National Park. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park, Fishing, Islands

William Gilbert (WG) Grace Cricket player and Physician From "The English Illustrated Magazine" Engraving by W. Spielmeyer 1890

Men and women playing tennis Date: 19th century

Cupid and a fairy () play badminton with hearts for shuttlecocks Date: 1907

Fencing, from the Games and Sports series (N165) for Old Judge Cigarettes 1889 Issued by Goodwin & Company The "Games and Sports" series of trading cards (N165) was issued by Goodwin & Company in 1889 to promote Old Judge Cigarettes. The Metropolitan Museum of Art owns all 50 cards in the series.. Fencing, from the Games and Sports series (N165) for Old Judge Cigarettes 400657

1930s MONTAGE OF BOYS AND GIRLS IN ACTIVE PLAY - m3377 HAR001 HARS HEALTHINESS HOME LIFE FRIENDSHIP PHYSICAL FITNESS INSPIRATION CONFIDENCE BICYCLES B&W BIKES GOALS ACTIVITY STILTS HAPPINESS PHYSICAL TRICYCLE WELLNESS ADVENTURE LEAP LEISURE STRENGTH AND EXCITEMENT RECREATION PRIDE CONNECTION SLIDING BOARD FLEXIBILITY FRIENDLY LEAPFROG MUSCLES SCOOTER BALL GAME BALL SPORT COOPERATION GROWTH PRE-TEEN PRE-TEEN BOY PRE-TEEN GIRL STREET HOCKEY TOGETHERNESS BASEBALL BAT BLACK AND WHITE CAUCASIAN ETHNICITY HAR001 OLD FASHIONED

Sketches of a cycling race ..

Study of a woman playing tennis or badminton ..

Diving at St. Kilda baths, largest in the world (palings keep out sharks), Australia.. Underwood & Underwood (American, founded 1881, dissolved 1940s)

Photograph inside of the lifestyle magazine La Vie au Grand Air; women's self-defence classes.

Picture series Jockey Barometer, the jockey and his sponsor, 4th prize, digitally restored reproduction of a collectors picture from c. 1900

A jolly gentleman ("Sir Davy" Stephens of Kingstown)holding up a poster for The Winning Post run by Robert S Sievier. He used the publication to attack those he disliked on the turf. Date: circa 1904

New Zealand tennis player, Anthony Frederick Wilding, Wimbledon Mens Champion in 1910, 1911, 1912 and 1913. His championship run came to an end in 1914 when he was beaten by Australian, N. E. Brookes in three straight sets. Wilding died near Neuve Chapelle, France on 9 May 1915 while fighting in the Battle of Aubers Ridge. Caricatured here by H. F. Crowther Smith in the year he lost to Norman Brookes. Date: 1914

Track guard Sven Gustavsson.

DA-SC-85-00966. Country: Unknown

9th All Sokol Rally in Prague 1932. A rally to promoting public exercise as a way to stimulate national self importance (through organised gymnastic and athletic demonstrations - usually mass-participation). The Sokol (which translates as 'Falcon') arose as the first Czech Gymnastic organisation in the 1860s. Between the First and Second World Wars the organisation grew to have a million members. The Sokol programmes were organised to have mass appeal across all strata of Czech society and acros

KNVB photo collection. Officials before the start of the interland against Germany.nederland - Germany (4-2), played on 24 April 1910 The site of Vitesse (Klarenbeek) in Arnhem .. April 24, 1910. Arnhem, Klarenbeek

From the magazine La Vie au Grand Air (Life in the Outdoors); Black and white photograph of rugby techniques to be done with the hands.

Fencers; Felice Beato (English, born Italy, 1832 - 1909); Japan; 1866 - 1867; Hand-colored Albumen silver print

KNVB photo collection. Gerrit Visser during a trip in Paris in the Netherlands - Romania (6-0), played on May 27, 1924 in Stade The Colombes, during the Olympic Games in Paris .. May 27, 1924. France, Paris

Hippolyte Aucouturier (1876 - 1944), French professional road bicycle racer. Aucouturier, a professional between 1900 and 1908, won two stages at the first Tour de France in 1903 and won three stages and finished second in the 1905 Tour de France.

Lacrosse, from the Games and Sports series (N165) for Old Judge Cigarettes 1889 Issued by Goodwin & Company The "Games and Sports" series of trading cards (N165) was issued by Goodwin & Company in 1889 to promote Old Judge Cigarettes. The Metropolitan Museum of Art owns all 50 cards in the series.. Lacrosse, from the Games and Sports series (N165) for Old Judge Cigarettes. 1889. Commercial color lithograph. Issued by Goodwin & Company

Picture series steeplechase, silly August, 1883, Paris, the start, Liebig picture, historical, digitally restored reproduction of a collectors picture from c. 1900

Tennis at Hertingfordbury, Spencer Frederick Gore, 1878-1914, British, 1910, Oil on canvas, Support (PTG): 15 15/16 x 20 inches (40.5 x 50.8 cm), brushstrokes, costume, genre subject, grass, landscape, net (object), tennis, tennis courts, woman, England, Hertfordshire, Hertingfordbury, United Kingdom

Female PoloPlayer

Men Bowling, Glackens, William J., 1930

The Universities' Boat-Race, the Cambridge Crew: 6. T. E. Hockin, Jesus, 1876. Rower in the annual rowing race between the Cambridge University Boat Club and the Oxford University Boat Club, rowed between open-weight eights on the River Thames in London. The tradition began in 1829 with all-male crews of students. The first women's race was held in 1927. From "Illustrated London News", 1876.

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