• The Polo Grounds had distinctive box seats, constructed of poured concrete. - Wystan

[Chief Meyers, New York, NL (baseball)] (LOC)

Bain News Service,, publisher.

[Chief Meyers, New York, NL (baseball)]

[1911]

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Notes:
 Original data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards: Chief Meyers.
Corrected title and date based on research by the Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Baseball Research, 2006.
Photo shows John Tortes "Chief" Meyers (1880-1971), a Cahuilla Indian who played for the New York Giants. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008)
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Subjects:
 Baseball

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.09503

Call Number: LC-B2- 2245-13

Comments and faves

  1. artolog (59 months ago | reply)

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Meyers

  2. bobster855 [deleted] (59 months ago | reply)

    I wonder what ballpark that is.

  3. artolog (59 months ago | reply)

    hard to say.. Is that the home or road uniform? I think the Giants played in the Polo Grounds then, but there was some kind of fire and they played in Hilltop Park nearby for part of that era. Then of course, it could be at any road stadium.

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    katerba added this photo to his favorites. (59 months ago)

  5. rmcarrier1 (59 months ago | reply)

    Amazing photo. Historic baseball is so damn romantic.

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  7. mf52dolphin (59 months ago | reply)

    This looks like batting practice picture taken at the Polo Grounds.
    The stadium structure burned on April 14, 1911. However it was fortunate that the outfield seats were a seperate structure so they survived.
    Enough of the horshoe shaped foul-line to foul-line, including the full lower deck, had been rebuilt by June 28, 1911, and games resumed there on that date. The upper deck was still being constructed, but was ready for crowds by the start of the World Series (October 14, 1911 that year).

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