The Deadball Era 1900 to 1910
Forbes
Field, (photo, Library of
Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, LC-D4-15634) completed
in 1909 was one of the first steel and concrete parks symbolic of
the new prosperity of the major league game. You can see this and
several other images from this era by searching for baseball, in
the Library of Congress's, "Touring
Turn-of the Century America,"
presentation.
For an insight into dead ball hero Ty Cobb visit The Sporting News collection, Letters from Ty Cobb. The Sporting News also offers sample of the work of the renown baseball photographer, Charles M. Conlon whose work spanned the early 20th century, and an excellent exhibit on The World Series.
The Chicago Tribune offers images, stories, and cartoons on the 1901 and 1906 Chicago White Sox as a part of its retrospective on White Sox pennant winners.
American League pioneer and long time manager Connie Mack is introduced in the Library of Congress, Today in History, for December 22.
The Library of Congress exhibition, Baseball Cards from, 1870 to 1914 contains over two thousand images of the stars and teams from this period. Warning it can be addictive.
Giant star Christy Mathewson is introduced with pictures and quotes in a CMG site. Mathewson is now the subject of a one man play, Eddie Fierson's "An Evening with Matty," which has its own site.
The cover page for Albert von Tilzer, music and Jack Norworth, lyrics "Take Me Out to the Ball Game," written in 1908 is available at the Library of Congress American Treasures feature.
Ban Johnson the founder of the American League is studied by his leading biographer Eugene Murdoch in a 1974 article entitled the "Tragedy of Ban Johnson," in the online Journal of Sports History. The role of
David W. Anderson's, More Than Merkle: A History of the Best and Most Exciting Baseball Season in Human History, 2000. offer excellent insights into the period and a time when the Cubs may have been the best team in the game.
The Library of Congress and Chicago Historical Society exhibit Photographs from the Chicago Daily News offers a host of baseball images of parks and personalities such as Babe Ruth, Kenesaw Landis, and others from 1900-1933.
E-mail James.Harper@ttu.edu
This page was last updated
May 27, 2003