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1. TerpNats Posted: June 01, 2012 at 10:03 AM (#4145008)Interesting that baseball went to gloves and cricket did not.
Hell, you could make it a limited edition baseball card set.
No cage upon our face;
We stood right up and caught the ball
With courage and with grace.
-- George Ellard
That is the Conlon photo of Cobb sliding into third with Jimmy Austin manning third. It was taken on July 23, 1910. But no it is most definitely is not the first on-field baseball action picture. I don't know what the first one is but I do know they have action photos from the 1906 World Series. I think I've seen them for the 1905 WS as well. Cobb has a good one for the 1908 WS as well. In it he is bursting out of the box. Even the 1903 WS has photos.
The Reach and Spalding guides from the early 20th century each had many hundreds of photos, but nearly all of them were of teams, on every level from the Majors to Insane Asylums.
The 1906 Reach guide has quite a few action photos from the 1905 World Series, but 1903 is another story. The 1904 Reach guide covers the "Inter-League Series of 1903" with lots of text and a portrait of the Boston manager Jimmy Collins, and that's it. OTOH the Spalding guide doesn't even mention the Series at all, probably because it was the National League guide and the Pirates lost the Series. I'm sure that there are action photos of that 1903 Series, though, and I'd love to know where to find them.
Edit: Also, those photos are truly amazing.
The earliest action photo in that book is the one of Cobb and Austin that was taken in 1909. (Wiki has the date wrong.) But the frontispiece has an even more interesting 1911 shot of "New York [Highlander] base runner Bert Daniels [having] just been thrown out at the plate by Cleveland center fielder Shoeless Joe Jackson. Catcher Ted Easterly applies the tag as umpire Billy Evans makes the call. Cleveland third baseman Ivy Olson looks on." You can also see the field umpire and several other players in the background, along with the League Park LF stands and about a dozen ads lining the LF wall.
If that's the NBJHA you're talking about, the players aren't identified, but the catcher looks like Mickey Cochrane, and the fact that the runner has a uniform number means that it's after 1929.
Yes, it is Mickey Cochrane. I wish I could remember where I read it, but someone tracked down the photo as being taken at an exhibition game in Philadelphia between the Athletics and the Phillies.
Yep, that's the one. Thanks, McCoy.
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If that's the NBJHA you're talking about, the players aren't identified, but the catcher looks like Mickey Cochrane, and the fact that the runner has a uniform number means that it's after 1929.
Yes, it is Mickey Cochrane. I wish I could remember where I read it, but someone tracked down the photo as being taken at an exhibition game in Philadelphia between the Athletics and the Phillies.
If that's true, then it was taken in either 1932 or 1933, and the Phillies runner was Pinky Whitney. The Phillies didn't sport numbers until 1932, and Cochrane left the A's after the 1933 season.
What is the earliest ML game for which we have a complete filmed inning (or half-inning)?
Tremendous. Is "Czolgosz" President McKinley's assassin Leon Czolgosz, by any chance?
Tremendous. Is "Czolgosz" President McKinley's assassin Leon Czolgosz, by any chance?
Can't imagine who else it would be, especially since that assassination was still well within living memory---only 11 years before that photo was taken. And if inmates were calling themselves "Wellington" and "Brutus", why not Czolgosz?
BTW note that that hospital still exists, though obviously not under quite so blunt a name.
What is the earliest ML game for which we have a complete filmed inning (or half-inning)?
Game 6 of the 1952 Yanks-Dodgers World Series is the earliest I can think of, and it's about 95% complete. And game 7 of that same Series is missing only a few pitches. Both of them are kinescopes filmed off of a TV screen, and the original Gillette "Look sharp, feel sharp" commercials are in there, too, along with Mel Allen and Red Barber on the mikes.
But AFAIK those are not only the earliest complete games, they're also the earliest films that contain anything other than brief highlights. Those half hour WS highlight films began in 1943, and they're nowhere near as vivid as those 1952 kinescopes, which have a totally "live" look.
Now I'm trying to figure out if the manager was sane and that was his actual surname, or if he was insane and thought that he was William Jennings Bryan.
I think Bushmill was old before he started making whiskey.
The first telecast of an MLB game was Reds-Dodgers on August 26, 1939, by Red Barber again on W2XBS.
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