ENGL 3300-002 History Images

• Print of a ballgame in New Jersey's Elysian Fields, c1850s
• Civil War baseball at Salisbury Prison in North Carolina, 1860s
• The 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings
• Cap Anson, 1880s
• An 1890s wooden-grandstand park: Chicago's West Side Grounds
• Fred Merkle
• Steel and concrete: Shibe Park, Philadelphia, 1909
• Christy Mathewson in 1910
• Steel and concrete: Detroit's Navin Field, 1912. The original home-run porch
• "It never occurred to me that one man could start to play with the faith of fifty million people Ñ with the single-mindedness of a burglar blowing a safe." The Black Sox: Joe Jackson
• The Black Sox: Ed Cicotte
• The Black Sox: Buck Weaver
• The Black Sox: Kenesaw Mountain Landis
• Ray Chapman, killed by a pitch in 1920
• Babe Ruth hit 59 home runs in 1921 and 60 in 1927, 714 for his career, setting marks that Roy Hobbs and others would try to break :)
• Rube Foster, pitcher and entrepreneur
• Branch Rickey developed the farm system in the 1920s, and would later sign Jackie Robinson
• Satchel Paige: somehow I don't think this was his actual pitching motion
• Josh Gibson
• Ted Williams hit .406 in 1941; Joe DiMaggio hit in 56 straight games
• Jackie Robinson moves up from Montréal to Brooklyn, 1947
• Eddie Waitkus, 1948
• Ruth Ann Steinhagen, 1949
• Jackie Robinson steals home, 1955
• City ballparks of the 1910s had to be squeezed into available lots: see this plan of Ebbets Field, Brooklyn
• In the distant suburbs, parks could be perfectly symmetrical: plan of Arlington Stadium
• Roger Maris hit 61 home runs in 1961, earning him the imaginary "asterisk" because his season was eight games longer than Ruth's
• The Astrodome, 1965, like a great mother ship
• Like a giant ashtray: Veterans Stadium, Philadelphia, 1971
• 1970s baseball was certainly colorful: baseball at the Vet
• Roberto Clemente
• "A well-paid slave": Curt Flood
• "If a horse can't eat it, I don't want to play on it": Dick Allen
• Hank Aaron hit his 715th home run early in the 1974 season, breaking Ruth's career record. He endured racist threats in his pursuit of the record
• Nolan Ryan signed to pitch for $1,000,000 a year for the 1980 Houston Astros, a popular move
• Alex Rodriguez signed to play for ~$25,000,000 a year for the 2001 Texas Rangers, a distinctly less popular move
• Mark McGwire hit 70 home runs for the 1998 St. Louis Cardinals, but perhaps not by drinking milk alone
• Citizens Bank Park, Philadelphia, 2004: asymmetry for nostalgic purposes only
• Barry Bonds broke McGwire's single-season HR record in 2001 and Aaron's career record in 2007. By the latter date, he was widely ridiculed as a steroid abuser
• In 2004, Ichiro broke George Sisler's 84-year-old record for base hits in a season

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