Young "Cy" Young [Irv Young] between seasons (LOC)
Bain News Service,, publisher.
Young "Cy" Young [Irv Young] between seasons
[ca. 1909]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Photo shows baseball pitcher Irving Melrose who was known as
"Young Cy" and "Cy the second."
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the
negatives or caption cards. "Irv Young" added to the title
to clarify the baseball player's name on advice of source: Flickr
Commons project, 2008.
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:
Young, Irv,--1877-1935.
Baseball players.
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
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.03121
hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b40550
Call Number: LC-B2- 651-15
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Comments and faves
jwotis, hober, princemyshkin86, spreetaper, and 42 other people added this photo to their favorites.
jasonsargo (61 months ago | reply)
Amazing.
Exile Bibliophile (61 months ago | reply)
Looks like he was working in the off season. I wonder what his job was?
mcbnyc (61 months ago | reply)
Back in the days, most ALL ballplayers worked between seasons...back when sports were sports, not businesses.
sLack3r (61 months ago | reply)
He looks more like a foot ball player than baseball
jconn0403 (61 months ago | reply)
That's a railroad baggage wagon for passenger trains. My job during the mid-sixties was baggage man / mail handler for the IC and the wagons were the same then too.
jaba_ (61 months ago | reply)
baseball great !!!
Jack Lo P. (59 months ago | reply)
The title is a little confusing.
This is not Cy Young! It's "young Cy Young", who lost 21 games for the Boston Braves in the same year that the real Cy Young pitched for the Boston Americans. You can check it out on Google.
It's a wonderful picture anyway.
Kayak49 (58 months ago | reply)
Call him Irv Young. See: www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p =youngir01
The Library of Congress (58 months ago | reply)
Jack Lo P.: Sorry for the confusion. Even though there was a note in the catalog description to provide the full name of Irving Melrose, it sounds like we need to follow Kayak49's advice and add "Irv Young" directly to the title. Will do!
everebet (57 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Black and White Portraits/Denver, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
CakesPix (47 months ago | reply)
re the title. the only move which would begin to achieve clarity is to remove the quotation marks from "Cy". if the marks remain then everyman in the US is going to assume it is "the" Cy Young.
While using quotation marks around a nickname is proper, what could excuse their removal in this instance is the fact that he seems to have half a dozen names. obviously not all of them are his Proper name. If the marks are not removed then alternatively they may also be candidates for quotation marks if following standard punctuation since alias are enclosed. Enclosing them may show everyman that this is "a" Cy Young rather than "the" Cy Young.
and speaking of baseball, great catch on it being a railroad baggage car.
Anne (LOC P&P) (46 months ago | reply)
CakesPix: Thanks for your suggestion. We'll have to keep the title "as is" here since we transcribe titles exactly as they appear on the item, and then provide additional clarification in brackets or with a note.
keh_1414 (46 months ago | reply)
awesome
Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (41 months ago | reply)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irv_Young
唐文静 (38 months ago | reply)
i love old pictures it smells so good
Tro Choi (19 months ago | reply)
Very Nice! I like it!
Joey Jeux Ben 10
This photo was invited and added to the Cleveland Area History group.
ronsmith28 (8 months ago | reply)
I live in a small town in Eastern Maine (Milbridge, pop 1200) Mr. Young was born in a couple of towns over.