• Date on negative: 5?/5/11. - Wystan

[Grover Cleveland Alexander, Philadelphia, NL (baseball)] (LOC)

Bain News Service,, publisher.

[Grover Cleveland Alexander, Philadelphia, 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: Alexander, Phila.
Corrected title and date based on research by the Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Baseball Research, 2006.
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.09141

Call Number: LC-B2- 2191-2

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    JasonSpaceman added this photo to his favorites. (60 months ago)

  2. El Gato Negro (60 months ago | reply)

    beautiful !

    that bain collection certainly made my day !

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    williswhitlock added this photo to their favorites. (60 months ago)

  4. fdtate (60 months ago | reply)

    If this photo was taken in 1911, it would have been during Alexander's rookie season. He won 28 games that year, a modern day rookie record. He pitched for the Philadelphia from 1911 to 1917, then was traded to the Cubs.

    Alexander was one of the all-time greats and probably would have won 400 games if not for World War I. He missed most of the 1918 season and returned with a bad case of shell shock or post traumatic stress syndrome.

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    PhineasX added this photo to his favorites. (60 months ago)

  6. Mark in NOVA (60 months ago | reply)

    Rookie? He looks like he's in his mid-late 40's.

  7. artolog (60 months ago | reply)

    he is a little wrinkly, but he was in his mid to late 20's when he was a Phillie..

    "A for Alex
    The great Alexander
    More goose eggs he pitched
    Than a popular gander."
    - Ogden Nash

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    jaba_ added this photo to his favorites. (60 months ago)

  9. ngawangchodron (60 months ago | reply)

    More on pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander here:
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Cleveland_Alexan der

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    Bret Okc, greekstifado - Yanni, Jeffrey Guterman, tdcal51, and 4 other people added this photo to their favorites.

  11. Rip Tanion (31 months ago | reply)

    I notice a lot of ballplayers from that era look a lot older than they actually are in their photos. I guess it was hard living, poor diets, childhood illnesses…life really sucked back in those days.

  12. PIPER776 (29 months ago | reply)

    16 shutouts in one year!! (1916 maybe??) in TINY Baker Bowl....incredible

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    shquick, Brother Santa, and jaydgibson added this photo to their favorites.

  14. yanksfan09 (23 months ago | reply)

    yeah 1916, Grover was one of the greats, nice photo

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