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Spotlight on the Charles Conlon Baseball Collection
Over the coming weeks, I hope to conduct an in-depth look into the Charles Conlon Baseball Collection, probably the greatest collection of baseball photos in existence. Conlon took thousands of portraits of major league baseball players. Many of his photos of baseball’s early stars are classics and are easily recognizable.
Charles Conlon worked for New York City newspapers in the early 1900s, as a proof-reader with a photographic hobby before editor John B. Foster invited him to shoot photographs for The Telegram daily newspaper sporting pages and for the Spalding’s Base Ball Guide annual publication. Conlon’s original glass plate negatives are owned by North Little Rock, Arkansas collector John Rogers. The collection of 8,400 different Conlon glass negatives are housed in the John Rogers Archive www.johnrogersarchive.com. Rogers displayed the Conlon collection at The National Sports Collectors Convention in Baltimore, MD in July 2010.
Conlon’s most famous photo is an action shot of Ty Cobb sliding into third base at Hilltop Park on July 23, 1910, upending the third baseman, Jimmy Austin. For publications, the original photo was cropped on the right, taking away almost half of the image. Conlon was actually on the field that day, a common practice at the time, “behind third base, under the hood of a large, tripod-supported Graflex camera”. He was positioned to the outfield side of the third base coach’s box, in foul territory. Cobb was on second. New York third baseman Jimmy Austin was playing in for a possible sacrifice bunt. Cobb took off for third, directly toward Conlon, but the batter did not get the bunt down. Austin backpedaled to take the throw from the catcher. Cobb tripped Austin over and the catcher’s throw sailed into left field.
-Gary Livacari
Photo Credits: Charles Conlon’s Golden Age of Baseball Photographs
Information: Excerpts edited from the Charles Conlon Wikipedia page. Read more at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_M._Conlon
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