• Dated (in reverse) 4/24/1911. - Wystan

[Russ Ford, New York, AL (baseball)] (LOC)

Bain News Service,, publisher.

[Russ Ford, New York, AL (baseball)]

[1911]

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Notes:
 Original data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards: Ford, Yankees. Baseball.
Corrected title and date based on research by the Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Baseball Research, 2006.
Photo shows baseball player Russell William Ford (1883-1960). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008)
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Subjects:
 Baseball

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

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.09132

Call Number: LC-B2- 2189-7

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    evilcabeza, spreetaper, pinkyhonor, jGregor, and 23 other people added this photo to their favorites.

  2. Kayak49 (60 months ago | reply)

    Of note:
    "He is known as the creator of the 'emery ball', a pitch that was thrown with a ball that had been scuffed with a piece of emery. Ford won 26 games in his rookie season of 1910, becoming only the third player in major league history to win 20 games and strike out at least 200 batters in his first season. (Christy Mathewson and Pete Alexander are the others)"
    Also of note, Ford was born in Brandon, Manitoba, and was inducted into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in 1989.

  3. artolog (60 months ago | reply)

    I guess "emery balls" were legal back then.

  4. ngawangchodron (60 months ago | reply)

    More on Russ Ford here:
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ_Ford

  5. pinkyhonor (53 months ago | reply)

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Face Time, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

  6. susan4508 (49 months ago | reply)

    An even better bio of Russ Ford (and about 900+ other ballplayers) is at: bioproj.sabr.org/bioproj.cfm?a=v&v=l& bid=1758&...

  7. ann_arbor_deadhead (41 months ago | reply)

    they weren't officially the Yankees yet in 1911, they were still the New York Highlanders.

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