A Baseball Game in Boston in 1909 - in full photographic detail

[vthobby]

Incredible Scott, can't you just lay it out on the floor? Take a pic from like 6 feet away (social distancing guidelines ) and that would give us an idea of the scope of it? Even just to see it against a plant or a chair would be amazing!!!

Can you please? Thanks and its amazing! Peace, Mike

[scooter729]

Originally Posted by vtgmsc

Incredible Scott, can't you just lay it out on the floor? Take a pic from like 6 feet away (social distancing guidelines ) and that would give us an idea of the scope of it? Even just to see it against a plant or a chair would be amazing!!!

Can you please? Thanks and its amazing! Peace, Mike

Thanks Mike! This is it in its original frame. I carefully removed it from the dilapidated old frame - hoping (maybe 7% seriously?) for a bunch of T206's to be stuffed behind it, but it was only stuffed with a bunch of Boston newspapers from March 1910. Most importantly, I removed it with no damage or issues to the photo.

In this picture, it was spread across two big chairs, and took up the better part of my room. It currently is out of the frame, laid out across the room (door is LOCKED so my kids can't go in there while we're all stuck in the house!).

When life resumes, this will get framed properly so it can be sustained for another 110+ years to come. Wish I could share better images of this with you!

Scott

[nat]

That's just incredibly cool. Do you know what its original purpose was?

[Jay Wolt]

Scott fantastic piece!

[scooter729]

Originally Posted by nat

That's just incredibly cool. Do you know what its original purpose was?

Not exactly sure. Apparently it came directly from the family of a former long-time Red Sox executive. That's all I know about it - it hasn't been sold or hit the auction block or anything.

Based on the size, especially considering it's from 1909, it must've been pretty expensive to make, so I don't imagine many of them could've been made at the time.