mvp

From the car, the timing (before the first game of the World Series) and the position of Larry Doyle (seated on the running board), I'm going to say this was the award ceremony for the National League MVP (known then as the Chalmers Award, and accompanied by a Chalmers vehicle) to Larry Doyle. This matches up with other Chalmers Award photos in the Bain Collection.

artolog: Thanks for your comment about the Chalmers award photos. We will include some information about it in the description for this and the other images which you have identified.

In 1910, Johnson caught a ceremonial opening pitch of a baseball from President William Howard Taft, inaugurating an annual Presidential "first pitch" tradition for the first Washington D. C. home game. Answers.com says: "In 1913, at the age of 26, Johnson turned in probably the most dominating season by any major league pitcher in history. 'The Big Train' won 36 games, lost 7, had a miniscule 1.09 earned run average, and struck out 243 batters in 346 innings. Johnson completed 11 shutouts and threw 56 consecutive scoreless innings during one stretch. No pitcher ever again won 36 games in a season. For his efforts, Johnson won a new Chalmers automobile as the American League's Most Valuable Player."

Wystan, Thanks for the additional information on the event depicted here. We will add a bit more detail to the caption when we update this record.

Another Bain 1914 World Series photo of Evers and Plank:

Evers was the National League MVP (then knows as the Chalmers Award) in 1914. His counterpart in the American League, Eddie Collins, played for the Athletics in the Series that year. www.baseball-reference.com/awards/awards_1914.shtml#NLmvp