Tagged: photos

7 clippings tagged photos.

Photo feature headed Beauty at Bat. A large portrait shows pitcher Gloria Marks of the Racine team smiling with a catcher's mitt on one hand. The caption says she comes from San Diego, was second choice in a beauty contest held at an Army camp judged by Bing Crosby from girls' photos, and will help open the Girl's National Softball League at Wrigley Field Sunday. Below, six players from the Kenosha and Racine teams stride across the field in flared skirted uniforms holding gloves and balls: Irene Ruhnke, Elise Harney, Marion Wohender, Annabella Thompson, Leola Mae Brody and Gloria Marks.

Beauty at Bat

All-American Girls Softball League
Chicago, Illinois · 1943

Bordered feature headed Batting Figures Can Be Fat—but That's All!, by Jayne Miller, reporting from Chicago that a new league where a slim figure will be as important as a fat batting average opens tomorrow with the backing of two major league baseball magnates, P. K. Wrigley of the Chicago Cubs and Branch Rickey of the Brooklyn Dodgers. The 70 girls wound up spring training partly at Wrigley Field and partly in a beauty parlor. A photo shows shortstop Terrie Davis of the Rockford team at bat, with the caption Her batting figure may not be the envy of a major leaguer, but it looks good from where we sit.

Batting Figures Can Be Fat—but That's All!

All-American Girls Softball League
Chicago, Illinois · 1943

Photograph headed Fans Settle Burning Question, showing a cluster of shirtless men leaning over a balcony railing at Shibe Park in Philadelphia, caps on, shirts off, watching a ball game below. The caption explains that when Old Sol's rays became too uncomfortable for the balcony bugs at Shibe Park, they decided to discard their shirts, roll up their trouser legs, and get a sun tan while watching the game.

Fans Settle Burning Question

The Laredo Times
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · 1935

Photo feature headed Indoor Baseball On Big Scale showing Klepack, Brooklyn shortstop, out at first base in a National Professional Indoor Baseball League game in Bronx Coliseum, with Martin of the New York Giants taking the throw. Below runs Harry Grayson's NEA story Recreational Game Can't Be Sold At Price, Say Veterans, in which softball officials argue the new league forgot sex appeal because girls outdraw men, listing the famous names running each club and noting a planned indoor world series in March.

Indoor Baseball On Big Scale

The Laredo Times
New York, New York · 1939

Photo feature with two headlines, Batteries For Today Are Says Umpire and Who's the Catcher Asks the Crowd, showing catchers Burns and Cady posed over a packed Boston ballpark, with a paragraph on the world's series catchers.

Batteries for today are, announces the umpire

Evening Times-Republican
Marshalltown, Iowa · 1915

Newspaper photograph of Miss Florence Dominguez wearing a catcher's mask and holding a catcher's mitt, framed in an ornate border, captioned as the Native Sons queen candidate for 1915.

The queen candidate is an accomplished backstop

Tulsa Daily World
Tulsa, Oklahoma · 1915

Full-page newspaper photograph of pitcher Joe McGinnity in a New York uniform waving his right arm overhead, headlined This Is the Famous Iron Man of McGraw's Team, credited to a Republic photographer.

This is the famous Iron Man of McGraw's team

New York Giants
St. Louis, Missouri · 1903