Ty Cobb left and Joe Jackson, two of the dominant hitting
stars of the era, Library of Congress, LC-USZ62-97880
Stars of the Dead Ball Era
Ty Cobb left and Joe
Jackson, two of the dominant hitting
stars of the era, Library of Congress, LC-USZ62-97880
| Ty Cobb | Christy Mathewson |
| Walter Johnson | Cy Young |
Check representatives from this Era in The Sporting News, Baseball's 100 Best Players.
The Library of Congress exhibition, Baseball Cards from, 1870 to 1914 contains over two thousand images of the stars and teams from this period. Be prepared to get hooked.
Cy Young is the topic of the Library of Congress, Today in History, feature for August 6 and Connie Mack longtime manager of the Philadelphia Athletics is introduced in second feature for December 22.
Also enjoyable is the Library's Early Baseball Pictures, 1860s-1920s and capsules of some of the dead Ball Era stars are available from NetShrine
E-mail James.Harper@ttu.edu
This page was last updated
May 27, 2003
Background image, an oldtimer (George Herman Ruth)
takes his cuts. during the 1940s.Photo provided by William R.
Conroy.