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This is the earliest photo I can remember seeing where there is padding on the wall, even if it is the bull pen. www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=henryjo02

After searching for John P. Henry, I found his wikipedia article. He played catcher for the Washington Senators, shown here in this photo, wearing the jersey with the "W" on his sleeve. This must be a picture of him warming up a pitcher before a game.

It is great to baseball in the collection of the Library of Congress. It is the pride and joy of the American way (even back in 1914!), and will continue to be for years.

This photo was taken at Griffith Stadium, as evidenced by Washington's whites and, more conclusively, by this photo, presumably showing Henry in the background:

Someone goofed up. You are right. It's Griffith Stadium. These are great photos, though. That is a fantastic catcher's mitt considering this was 1914. It looks like you could actually close that mitt a bit as it has webbing. I have one from the late forties that is so thick and basically no webbing that I don't see how anyone could catch pitches not thown down the pipe.

This is a true testatment to the times in which this photo was taken. If it were taken today, the telegraphs would be laptops!

Wonder what they would have thought of "Tessy"

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Meyers

I wonder what ballpark that is.

hard to say.. Is that the home or road uniform? I think the Giants played in the Polo Grounds then, but there was some kind of fire and they played in Hilltop Park nearby for part of that era. Then of course, it could be at any road stadium.

Amazing photo. Historic baseball is so damn romantic.

This looks like batting practice picture taken at the Polo Grounds. The stadium structure burned on April 14, 1911. However it was fortunate that the outfield seats were a seperate structure so they survived. Enough of the horshoe shaped foul-line to foul-line, including the full lower deck, had been rebuilt by June 28, 1911, and games resumed there on that date. The upper deck was still being constructed, but was ready for crowds by the start of the World Series (October 14, 1911 that year).