Dead Ball Era Photo Gallery
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Opening Day for the Giants, 1911 at the Polo Grounds
Giants pose for a group photo before the start of Game One, 1911 World Series
Giants’ outfielder, George Burns
Giants pitching staff, 1911: Rube Marquard, Jeff Tesreau, Christy Mathewson, Red Ames, Hooks Wiltse, Doc Crandall
1911 National League champion New York Giants (player ID’s available upon request) Hooks second player to right of McGraw
Giants Opening Day line-up, 1911
Typical ball used during the Dead Ball Era
Cobb and Wagner, the two greatest stars of the Dead Ball Era
The great Dead Ball Era star, Honus Wagner
Ty Cobb sliding hard into third
Hall-of-Fame second baseman, Johnny Evers
The notorious gambler and game fixer, Hal Chase
The great HOF centerfielder, Tris Speaker
The great Hall-of-Fame infielder, Nap “Larry” Lajoie
Frank “Home Run” Baker
HOF pitcher Rube Waddell
John McGraw and Christy Mathewson
White Sox manager Kid Gleason and Hall-off-Fame second baseman Eddie Collins
Early photo of “Shoeless” Joe Jackson
Hall-of-Fame outfielder Zack Wheat with his son.
1903 New York Highlanders
1914 Chicago Whales of the Federal League
Jim Thorpe of the New York Giants up at bat.
New York Giants portraits in 1917 World Series
It’s Time for a Quiz!
[Update: See answers to the quiz questions below in the comments section]
Here’s a little something to shake the winter doldrums and to get you thinking about baseball again. Especially if you’re like me and just got hit with eight inches of snow last night. Not only that, there’s still 69 more days until Opening Day!
But first, a trip down memory lane, back to the days of grade school when you heard your teacher give you that bad news. Here’s the scene I remember:
Sister Mary and Joseph, 1960: “Class…Put your books away at once, close your desks, and take out a sheet of paper! I hope you studied last night because we’re having a quiz!”
Young Gary Livacari: “Yes, Sister.”
Sister Mary and Joseph: “And no cheating! If I catch anyone cheating, you’ll take all the books out of your desk and stand in the waste basket until I tell you! And Gary, that goes doubly for you!”
Young Gary Livacari: “Oh, no, Sister…not again! My arms are still sore from the last time you made me do that!”
Yes, it’s that time again. And no, there will not be a note sent home to your parents if you don’t get it right!
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