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[Pennsylvania Governor John K. Tener at Ebbets Field (baseball)] (LOC)

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  • Roger said:
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_K._Tener - good pic as he used to play baseball
  • Elijah said:
    Quite a contrast to a modern baseball audience picture. -- Seen on your photo stream. (?)
  • Wystan said:
    Another Bain/LOC photo of Governor Tenor throwing out the first ball at Ebbets Field: National League President (and Pennsylvania Governor) throws out the first ball in the first game of the season at Ebbetts Field in Brooklyn, April 14, 1914. The Dodgers beat the Braves that day. Cold weather kept the crowd down to about 12,000. "Dodgers Win 8 to 2; Gov. Tener Throws Out Ball" Story in The New York Times, April 15, 1914: query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9E03EFD91E39E6... Another Bain/LOC photo of Tener, at a baseball game:
  • The Library of Congress said:
    Wystan: Thanks for the information on Gov. Tener and the connection to the other photograph. We will add some of it to the information when we update the database.

[Jack Barry, Boston AL (baseball)] (LOC)

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[Washington Park, Brooklyn - flag-raising, 4/10/15 (baseball)] (LOC)

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  • Michael Bates said:
    This must be the Federal League, 1915.
  • Art Siegel said:
    Yes. the Brooklyn Federals new park, according to the caption above. Here is the park's Wikipedia entry: "Washington Park #3 Washington Park's scoreboard stood on "legs," visible in this photo. The legs were in play, so center fielders had to run under the scoreboard to retrieve baseballs. The Brooklyn Tip-Tops or "BrookFeds" of the Federal League, the only major league team ever named for a loaf of bread, acquired the ballpark property in 1914, then rebuilt the second Washington Park in steel and concrete. The old park took on a modern appearance; in fact, it was nearly a duplicate of the initial version of another Federal League park in Chicago that would become Wrigley Field. However, with the Dodgers in a new and somewhat more spacious steel-and-concrete home already, Ebbets Field, there was no long-term need for Washington Park, so it was abandoned for the final time after the Federal League ended its two-year run." Part of the wall of the last Washington Park still exists on the eastern side of 3rd Avenue in what's now a Con Edison yard. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Park_(baseball)
  • JE Piper said:
    Yes, that wall that you see in the background is still standing and recognizable.
  • In Memoriam P. Wayne Nalbandian said:
    Cool to know part of that park remains. Sadly Ebbets Field is long gone, but Wrigley and Fenway Park will be around for some time to come. If the Brooklyn Federals had a awkward nickname, they were trumped by their brethren in Buffalo who went by the nickname Buffeds (for Buffalo Federals - catchy).
  • JE Piper said:
    Click here for a history of this outfield wall and the ballpark.