- The old hidden ball trick... - rjones0856
[Matsuda (Waseda University, Japan) is safe; a re-enactment of a play from a baseball game with Chicago University, Marshall Field, May 1911] (LOC)
Bain News Service,, publisher.
[Matsuda (Waseda University, Japan) is safe; a re-enactment of a play from a baseball game with Chicago University, Marshall Field, May 1911]
1911 (date created or published later by Bain)
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title devised by Library staff with information from the source:
Flickr Commons project, 2008. Original Bain News Service negative
caption misidentified the special homeplate shape as being 2nd base:
"Matsuda (Waseda) safe on second, Chicago, May 1911."
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.09193
Call Number: LC-B2- 2196-2
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artolog (59 months ago | reply)
more on this at www.baseball-fever.com/showthread.php?25550-E arly-Japanes....
jjcole2343 (59 months ago | reply)
except, that is homeplate
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Tony Saunders (59 months ago | reply)
And a bad call if the ball is in the fieders hand.He is out.
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The Library of Congress (58 months ago | reply)
jjcole2343:
We agree. The new title incorporates observations from several comments. Thank you!
He Who Must Be Named (58 months ago | reply)
Close inspection seems to indicate that the man tagging the runner was not in the original photograph. Notice the shadow seems to be added in and not even connected to the person. Also, his eyes are not looking at the runner.
JoWiJo (58 months ago | reply)
I'm not so sure that the runner was in the original, either. First of all, that line around his cap looks suspicions, then there is the shadow both in front of and behind of his left hand. Moreover, the look of the shadows of the subject are in and of themselves are quite different than the other shadows in the picture.
artolog (58 months ago | reply)
I'm not sure I agree. There is a lot of hand drawing around and on the two main figures, but those could just be to improve their look in newspaper reproduction, not a sign that the figures have been cut and pasted.
I do think this is a posed publicity shot and not a real play.
Kids' Writer (56 months ago | reply)
Hi,
The title should say "The University of Chicago," not Chicago University. The U of C baseball team is at Waseda University in Japan this very week (beginning March 21, 2008) to take up this old rivalry again, just for fun. There's an article about it here.
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budderflyman (20 months ago | reply)
The whole photo is bizarre. Okay, look at the player holding the ball....look at his right shoe vs his left shoe, about 4 sizes different. Yes, the shadow looks weird and looks like this is all etched out. This is what Leo used to say was a "bang, bang" play. It could go either way, but ask Yogi about that and Jackie Robinson. (Yogi was right, as he always was, Jackie was OUT at the plate).
artolog (20 months ago | reply)
and, for more ironic historical pondering, note "On December 2, 1942 about forty people watched Enrico Fermi and his team set off the first nuclear chain reaction at Chicago Pile-1 in a racquets court under the west stands of the abandoned stadium."
The abandoned stadium mentioned is the field pictured here (name changed to Stagg Field in 1913).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stagg_Field
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