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As baseball season kicks off, a look back at the sport's past. Read on to see historic photographs of amateur players and future Hall-of-Famers.
Credit: Library of Congress/Harris & Ewing
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Bobby Wheelock, Boston Beaneaters, baseball card portrait, ca. 1887-1890
Credit: Library of Congress
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African American baseball team, Danbury, Conn., 1880.
Credit: Library of Congress/Edward David Ritton
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The New York Metropolitans baseball team in 1882 posed for a studio portrait, wearing white uniforms with neckties.
Credit: Library of Congress/Napoleon Sarony
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Denton True "Cy" Young wearing a Boston Americans baseball team uniform, 1902
Credit: Bain News Service
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Unnamed baseball player, ca. 1909-1919
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Washington Nationals pitcher Walter Johnson, March 1, 1911
Credit: Library of Congress/Paul Thompson
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Honus Wagner, wearing a Pittsburgh baseball team uniform and glove, poised to catch a baseball, 1911
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Unnamed baseball players, ca. 1909-1919
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Christy Matthewson and Walter Johnson, New York National League and Washington American League, 1912
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Boston (American League) vs. New York (National League) at Polo Grounds during World Series, 1912
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Grover Cleveland Alexander, Philadelphia National League, 1912
Credit: Library of Congress/Bain News Service
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Hick Cady of the Boston Red Sox wins a 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, Sept. 25, 1912
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Pittsburgh baseball team, 1907
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Charles Ebbets, owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, 1910
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Chinese baseball team, Honolulu, 1910
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Ty Cobb, Detroit Tigers, baseball card portrait, 1912
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Water baseball, 1914
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Baseball game, Anchorage, July 4, 1915
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Audience at a professional baseball game, ca. 1915-1917
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Group of men raising large American flag on opening day of the baseball season, Ebbets Field, April 14, 1914
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Babe Ruth, 1919
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The Brooklyn baseball club (Brooklyn Dodgers), 1913
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Playground baseball game, 1918
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Original caption: "Umpire Nallan ready to make the call as Washington catcher Hank Severeid awaits ball while New York Yankee Lou Gehrig slides into home plate during baseball game."
1925 or 1926
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Women's baseball
Original caption: Washington fans are strong for "Uncle Nick Altrock" and therefore the War Risks have Dot Meloy in training as a side line entertainer. Nick is teaching her a few of his stunts.
June 10, 1920
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Orioles baseball team, 1921
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Men playing baseball, 1921
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Members of the Republican team of the House of Representatives parading with an elephant before the start of House of Representatives baseball game at American League park, 1926
Credit: Library of Congress
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Original caption: "A million dollar base-ball flesh is represented in these sluggers of the two All- Star Teams which met in the 1937 game at Griffith Stadium today. Left to right: Lou Gehrig, Joe Cronin, Bill Dickey, Joe DiMaggio, Charley Gehringer, Jimmie Foxx, and Hank Greenberg."
Washington D.C., July 7, 1937
Credit: Library of Congress/Harris & Ewing
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Joe DiMaggio, of the New York Yankees, about to kiss his signature baseball bat, 1941
Credit: Library of Congress/The Sporting News Pub. Co.
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Saturday morning baseball game at the Farm Security Administration migratory farm labor camp, Robstown, Texas, January 1942
Credit: Library of Congress/Arthur Rothstein
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Coast Guardsman from the icebreaker Northwind playing baseball in sub-zero sunshine on shore-fast ice in the Bering Sea, 1953
Credit: Library of Congress
