Tagged: photos

13 clippings tagged photos.

Large studio portrait of Andrew Rube Foster seated in a bowler hat, dark suit and bow tie, one hand resting on a chair arm. The caption reads Andrew Rube Foster, Manager and Captain of the World's Colored Champions, the Leland Giants.

Andrew Rube Foster

Leland Giants
Chicago, Illinois · 1910

Five newspaper photographs of Leland Giants players stacked in a column. John H. Loyd standing in a Lelands uniform, captioned Leland Giants' Star Second Baseman. Bruce Pettway standing with catcher's mitts in both hands, captioned The Peer of All Catchers. J. P. Hill posed batting, captioned Leland Giants' Center Fielder, considered the equal, if not the superior, of any man playing baseball. Andrew Payne standing with a glove, captioned The Wonder of the Outfield. James Booker stretched low to scoop a ball, captioned Star Catcher, Now Playing First Base for the Leland Giants, he is a star in any position.

First Annual Base Ball and Sporting Number

Leland Giants
Chicago, Illinois · 1910

AP Newsfeatures story headed Girl Softballers Finish Their Transition To Professionals, with a photo of catcher Ruth Richard. The American Girls Baseball League, founded 12 years ago by Phil Wrigley and Branch Rickey as a four-team professional softball circuit, has completed its gradual transition to baseball as played in the major leagues, with the regulation nine-inch ball in use since July 1. The story recounts the ball shrinking from 12 inches in 1943 through 11 and a half, 11, and 10 and three eighths, sidearm pitching introduced in 1946 and overhand two years later, and Rockford's Marie Mansfield hurling a four-hitter. Falling attendance forced the changeover, and the new game must save the league financially or the girls will be back in the amateurs.

Girl Softballers Finish Their Transition To Professionals

Rockford Peaches
Rockford, Illinois · 1954

News story headed High-Class Baseball Promised As Girl Teams Battle Tonight, previewing an exhibition at Griffith Stadium between the Fort Wayne Daisies and Racine Belles at 8:15, with a photo of pitcher Isabel Alvarez captioned Pitches tonight. Manager Max Carey is expected to use his two Cuban hurlers, Mirta Marrero and Isabel Alvarez. Maxine Kline, the leading hurler in the All-American Girls League with a 47-14 two-year record, starts for the Belles. Betty Foss, the league's leading hitter at .346, smacked three hits last night. Carey, former star of the Pittsburgh Pirates, claims the girls play sound, smart ball as good as most minor league teams.

High-Class Baseball Promised As Girl Teams Battle Tonight

Fort Wayne Daisies
Washington, D.C. · 1951

Sports column with a hand-lettered heading reading Scrambled Sports by Wag, with a small photo of a ballplayer captioned Mee. Items report that shortstop Julia Mee and pitcher Harry Baumgartner of the Omaha Buffalo herd have been released, that yesterday was house cleaning day in the Western league with a 16 player roster limit, notes on the Wichita club, boxing gossip, the observation that rainy days let players sit around and win conversational pennants, and a closing item saying the Wichita club's nicknames are Witches and Izzies but the latest is Isbergs in honor of Owner Isbell.

Scrambled Sports

Omaha Buffaloes
Omaha, Nebraska · 1922

Magazine feature headed Casey Is A Lady!, with the deck These gals are real ball players. Watch them. Three photos: a batter mid-swing captioned It's a Hit! She swings like Joe DiMaggio, shortstop Ellen Ahrndt leaping to corral a hot line drive, and players watching from the bench captioned Anxious. Score's tied, it's last of the ninth. The text by George Berkowitz explains that the All-American Girls' Professional Ball League plays a game much like regular baseball, uses nine players instead of softball's ten, pitches underhand but it isn't soft pitching, and pays 40 to 100 dollars a week.

Casey Is A Lady!

All-American Girls Professional Ball League
Chicago, Illinois · 1944

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