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[Babe Ruth, at opening of Yankee Stadium (baseball)] (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • Art Siegel said:
    "On April 18th, 1923, the first day of the new baseball season, the gates of Yankee Stadium were opened and 74,200 people flooded through turnstiles, while another 25,000 were turned away – an amazing number, given that previous attendance record for a single game was 42,000 for the 1916 World Series in Boston. In an ironic twist, the first game was fittingly played against the Boston Red Sox, Babe’s former team. Even more fitting was that Babe Ruth hit the first homerun in the stadium on the opening day of the new ballpark – a three-run homerun, giving the Yankees the 4-1 win. As a response to Babe’s opening day homerun, sportswriter Fred Lieb referred to Yankee Stadium in his column as “The House That Ruth Built”. It was a nickname that quickly stuck. Given Babe’s great ability to draw a crowd, this reference to Yankee Stadium became a regular term and is still used as the great ballpark’s less-formal name." www.baberuthcentral.com/babesimpact/babe-ruths-legacy/the...

Chicago Americans (LOC)

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  • Richard Norton said:
    Chicago White Sox
    www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q335169
  • swanq said:
    See comments for similar photo, indicating that this is at the Polo Grounds (home to the New York Yankees)
    Chicago Americans (LOC)
    Note that the stands are not very full. The game on 10/1/1917 was the last game for the White Sox in the American League Championship and they were already the Championship winners and thus the game was of no significance.
  • Jon (LOC P&P) said:
    Thanks Richard Norton and swanq. We'll update the catalog records.

[Buck Weaver, Chicago AL (baseball)] (LOC)

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  • swanq said:
    The date written on the negative is 10/2/17. But the World Series didn't start until 10/6/1917.

    Buck Weaver played shortstop for the Chicago White Sox, who won the American League Championship in 1917. On 10/1/1917, the White Sox lost a game to the New York Yankees in New York, and according to
    The Birmingham Age-Herald. October 02, 1917, page 8, col 6, near top,
    - chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85038485/1917-10-02/ed-...
    the White Sox were to travel back to Chicago on 10/1/1917 evening, stopping at Cleveland.

    The negative numbers of this picture and the following pictures, of the baseball reporters and the Chicago White Sox are in sequence, suggesting that all three may have been on the same day.