"The Maine base ball club"--All blown up at Havana except no. 1 J.H. Bloomer (LOC)

"The Maine base ball club"--All blown up at Havana except no. 1 J.H. Bloomer

c1898 May 2.

1 photographic print.

Notes:
 Photo shows U.S.S. Maine baseball team posed.
Copyright by Geo. C. Mages & Co., Chicago.
Published in: Baseball Americana : treasures from the Library of Congress / Harry Katz, et al. New York : Smithsonian Books, 2009.

Subjects:
 Maine (Battleship)--People--1890-1900.
Baseball players--1890-1900.

Format: Portrait photographs--1890-1900.
Group portraits--1890-1900.
Photographic prints--1890-1900.

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

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a52824

Call Number: SSF - Sports--Baseball--1898 [item]

Comments and faves

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    Christiane Necker, yXeLLe ~@rtBrut~, Kurt Modler, American Daydreams, and 22 other people added this photo to their favorites.

  2. budderflyman (39 months ago | reply)

    Blown up, as on the USS Maine? Horrible.

  3. yvrk (39 months ago | reply)

    Even the goat?

  4. budderflyman (39 months ago | reply)

    So the goat is more important than the humans???

  5. Pineapple Tie (39 months ago | reply)

    I don't think it was a question of importance as much as it was of completion. "All" would denote yes, even the goat. Nothing escaped being "blown up."

  6. Kurt Modler (39 months ago | reply)

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called La Belle Epoque ca.1890 - ca.1914 incl. ArtDeco and ArtNouveau, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

  7. monstersweare (39 months ago | reply)

    www.awesomestories.com/sports/baseball-cards/ baseball-and...

    "In December of 1897, the squad of the USS Maine (a battleship) defeated the team of the USS Marblehead (a cruiser) to win the Navy’s championship. The star of the Maine team was William Lambert, a black man from Hampton, Virginia. His job on the ship was engine stoker. His job on the team was pitcher. A shipmate said that Lambert was “a master of speed, curves, and control.”

  8. PugnoM (39 months ago | reply)

    hey, monstersweare, thanks for the further context! I love to know the stories behind the photos.

  9. pennylrichardsca (39 months ago | reply)

    Aha, so the man in the upper right would be WIliam Lambert, then?

  10. nicksartworld (38 months ago | reply)

    time out

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