Doc Lawson's
19th Century Base Ball Prints
This page provides links to images of
much of my collection of 19th Century Base Balls prints. Most of the
collection is from Harper's Weekly. The link will download the
image--hit your back button to return to this page.
The
Cricket Match Played at Hoboken, October 3-6, 1859 Between the All England
Eleven and the United States Twenty-Two
(top panel) and A Base-Ball Match at the
Elysian Fields, Hoboken (bottom panel). Source: Harper's Weekly,
October 15, 1859. http://home.columbus.rr.com/doclawson/vbb/elysian.JPG
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First Nine Nassau B. B. Club (The First
Baseball Nine at Princeton), 1860. This is one of the earliest photos
I have ever seen. Source: reprinted photo from a book about the Princeton
University, c. 1900. http://home.columbus.rr.com/doclawson/vbb/princetonbb.JPG
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Base-Ball Match Between the
"Athletics", of Philadelphia, PA., and the "Atlantics," of
Brooklyn, N.Y., Played at Philadelphia, October 30, 1865 -- Sketched by J. B.
Beale. The story (not shown) reads: We present our readers on page
733 an illustration of the base-ball match played October 30 at Philadelphia,
in which the Atlantic Club of Brooklyn and the Athletic Club of Philadelphia
contended for the championship. The match created a great excitement in
Philadelphia, and the fround at Sixteenth Street and Columbia Avenue was
thronged with spectators. The two clubs engaged in the contest are
considered the best in the country. During the early portion of the game
the Athletics wer ahead. At the seventh inning the score for each side
was 14. In the ninth inning the last man of the Athletics was put out,
and the socre of the Atlantics reached 21 against 15 for the Athletics. At
the request of the Athletics another match was played between the two clubs on
Monday, the 6th instant, at the Capitoline grounds in Brooklyn. Source:
Harper's Weekly, November 18, 1865. http://home.columbus.rr.com/doclawson/vbb/philly.JPG
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'Chamption Nine of the Atlantic
Base-Ball Club of Brooklyn, L.I., 1865. The caption (not shown)
reads: We give on this page portraits of the nine members of the Atlantic
Base-Ball Club in Brooklyn who were engaged in the recent contests for the
championship with the Athletic Club of Philadelphia. The "nine"
of the Atlantic were victors in two successive matches--one played in
Philadelphia, October 30, of which we gave an illustration in our last paper,
the other a week later in Brooklyn. This latter established the claim of
the Atlantic Club to the championship until some more successful rival shall
arise to dispute it. Source: Harper's Weekly, November 25,
1865. http://home.columbus.rr.com/doclawson/vbb/atlantics.JPG
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The American National Game of Base Ball.
Source: Currier & Ives, 1866 (reprint from book). http://home.columbus.rr.com/doclawson/vbb/currier.jpg
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The Champion Nine of the Union Base-Ball
Club of Morrisania, New York. Source: Harper's Weekly, October
26, 1867. http://home.columbus.rr.com/doclawson/vbb/union.JPG
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Presentation of a Champion Bat to the
"Red Stocking" Base-Ball Club, Cincinnati, Ohio, on its Return Home.
Source: Harper's Weekly,
July 24, 1869. http://home.columbus.rr.com/doclawson/vbb/redsbat.JPG
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Base-Ball -- The Match Between the
"Red Stockings" and the "Atlantics." The original
is a very large print showing the first game lost in over a season and a half
by the powerful all-professional Red Stockings from Cincinnati. They lost this
match 8-7 in 11 innings. One very interesting thing about this print is
that it shows the Atlantics in the field playing a distinct outfield shift
toward left field. Obviously, player positioning had advanced quite a lot
by this time period. Source: Harper's Weekly, July 2, 1870. http://home.columbus.rr.com/doclawson/vbb/redsatlantics.JPG
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A drawing of a base ball game from a
larger montage print of various other sports (e.g., skating, archery, lawn
tennis, etc.). Source: unknown, c.1870s.. http://home.columbus.rr.com/doclawson/vbb/allsports.JPG
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Patrick Bunbury at Home.
Notice the boys playing base ball in the background. Source: Harper's
Weekly, April 5, 1873. http://home.columbus.rr.com/doclawson/vbb/kidbb2.JPG
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International Base-Ball -- The
Philadelphia Athletics. Source: Harper's Weekly, July 25,
1874. http://home.columbus.rr.com/doclawson/vbb/athletics.JPG
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The American Game of Base-Ball.
Source: The Illustrated London News, August 15, 1874. http://home.columbus.rr.com/doclawson/vbb/londonbb2.JPG
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American Base-Ball Players. Source:
The Pictorial World (U.K.), August 29, 1874. http://home.columbus.rr.com/doclawson/vbb/americanbb.JPG
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Base-Ball in England -- The Match on
Lord's Cricket Grounds Between the Red Stockings and the Athletics.
Source: Harper's Weekly, September 5, 1874. http://home.columbus.rr.com/doclawson/vbb/londonbb.JPG
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The Maple Leaf Base-Ball Club, of
Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Source: Harper's Weekly, September
12, 1974. http://home.columbus.rr.com/doclawson/vbb/mapleleafs.JPG
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Base-Ball at Blackville -- The
"White Stockings" Against the "Black Legs" -- First Blood
for the "Black Legs." A not so pleasant reminder of our
nation's racist past. Currier & Ives issues a number of similar
"Darktown" prints like this one. Source: Harper's Weekly,
July 27, 1878. http://home.columbus.rr.com/doclawson/vbb/darktown.JPG
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The Metropolitan Base-Ball Nine.
Source: Harper's Weekly, August 5, 1882. http://home.columbus.rr.com/doclawson/vbb/metros.JPG
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Illinois. -- The Chicago Baseball Team,
Winners of the National League Championship. This print shows the
short-lived attempt to have players wear different shirts for each position.
Cap Anson is number 7, seated in the middle. Source: Frank
Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, October 14, 1882. http://home.columbus.rr.com/doclawson/vbb/chicago.JPG
Base-Ball of the Future. Source:
Harper's Weekly, July 9, 1883. http://home.columbus.rr.com/doclawson/vbb/futurebb.JPG
The Boston Base-Ball Club (top), The Grand Torchlight Parade in Philadelphia
(bottom left), and Base-Ball Champions
of 1883 (bottom right). This print shows the chamption Boston Red
Stocking Club of the National League (top) and the celebrations in Philadelphia
honoring the champion Athletics of Philadelphia of the American Association
(bottom). Source: Harper's Weekly, October 13, 1883. http://home.columbus.rr.com/doclawson/vbb/boston.JPG
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The Captain of "Our Nine."
Source: Harper's Young People, July 1, 1884. http://home.columbus.rr.com/doclawson/vbb/kidbb.JPG
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Champion Base-Ball Players. A
sort of all-star team featuring Charles 'Old Hoss' Radburn (row 1, left) of
Providence, William 'Buck' Ewing (row 1, middle) of New York, Mike 'King' Kelly
(row 3, right) of Chicago, John Montgomery Ward (row 4, left) of New York, and
others. Source: Harper's Weekly, May 16, 1885. http://home.columbus.rr.com/doclawson/vbb/champions.JPG
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The Western Bloomer Girls -- Ladies
Champion Base Ball Club -- Watervliet, Mich. Ok--these last two are
not 19th Century, but it's not easy to find things about women playing
baseball. Source: Postcard, c. 1910. http://home.columbus.rr.com/doclawson/vbb/bloomer.JPG
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A Feminine Baseball Club: Bellfield,
a suburb of Philadelphia, has a regularly organized baseball club the members
of which are women. They are shown in the photograph just before going on
the field for a game at the Bellfield Country. Club. Source: Harper's
Weekly Advertiser, August 13, 1911. http://home.columbus.rr.com/doclawson/vbb/femininebb.JPG
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