Great site for panoramic photos

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Posted By: jay behrens

Anyone that loves those great panoramic shots of old ballparks and teams, you have to check this out. The number of photos in here is just incredible. Lots of shots from the Deadball Era and World Series from the first 10 ten years.

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/panquery.html

Jay

I like to sit outside, drink beer and yell at people. If I did this at home I would be arrested, so I go to baseball games and fit right in.

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Posted By: Gary B.

Everyone NEEDS to check this site out - do a search on baseball for some stunning stadium, team and game photos from very early in the 20th century - really incredible photos from a long bygone era.

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Posted By: Max

Interestingly, most of these photos are in the public domain and are not subject to copyright or the LOC puts the copyright issue in your hands. You are able to download massive TIF files which are suitable for high quality printing. Many of these photos are routinely sold on ebay without credit to the LOC, but the LOC apparently doesn't mind.

Max

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Posted By: Joe P.

The 1904 pan of the Polo Grounds is just 40 years before I saw my first baseball game there.
The double deck of the stadium was extended up the right field and left field line.
It gave it the look of a horseshoe with the top being at the homeplate area.
The club house for both teams, were located in the deep center field area, some 505 or 515 feet away and in the playing area.
There were bleacher seats on both sides of the clubhouse.
Mays catch with his back to the plate in the 1954 WS off Vic Wertz attempt at heroics was in that area.
To say that the catch was sensational is an understatement.
His spin and throw back into the infield was unbelievable and bordered on the supernatural.

Thanks Jay:)

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Posted By: Joe P.

I'm trying to print some of the pan's.

I'm able to enlarge them to 100 % of the viewing page, but when I try to print it to my 8 1/2 x 11 sheet, I don't get the 100% full page print.

I know that I'm opening myself up to some well deserved incoming, but I can handle that.

Asides from the desire to go out the window with my printer, are there any words of wisdom out there that will give me the strength, drive and determination to press on?

I know that there must be a way.
Thanking you in advance.
Joe

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Posted By: Jason Smith

Thanks for the link! Those were great! I also found the pics of 1920s beauty pageants quite entertaining.
Jason

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Posted By: jay behrens

I'd be interested in learning how to print them out myself. I haven't tried to print one yet, but you look around in your printer settings and see what you can do. Lee and I just got a brand new photo quality printer, so if I can figure out how print these out, I plan on hanging a few on the wall.

Jay

I like to sit outside, drink beer and yell at people. If I did this at home I would be arrested, so I go to baseball games and fit right in.

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Posted By: Joe P.

I'm still trying to figure out how to get a full 8 1/2 x 11 print out.
Thanks again,
Joe

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Posted By: Kevin O

Great link Jay. The Library of Congress site is probably my favorite on the web. If you have a moment (i.e. if you're at work), check out the early Thomas Edison films. They're unbelievable. There's even one of some baseball action ("The Ball Game"), as well as longer clips of college football games, a hockey match, parades, a chain gang, an egg rolling contest, bicycle tricks, etc.