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

[scooter729]

Originally Posted by obcbeatle

Wow ... a hi res .tiff of this uploaded to a website and I could easily spend a week looking at this photo :-) Sometimes it's just as fun to look at each person in the stands (their expressions, etc.). A moment in "T206" time :-) Thank you for sharing!!

Agreed - I probably already have done so! Here's just a random snippet of the crowd when zoomed in - definitely can see all sorts of details on everyone...

[Bobbycee]

Almost every guy is wearing a hat. Some of these guys have unopened cigarette packs in their pocket, with a 150 series T206 waiting to be revealed.

[doug.goodman]

wow wow wow wow wow wow

WOW!

That is the coolest thing I have seen in a long long time.

Congrats on the pickup.
Doug

[baseball tourist]

Originally Posted by doug.goodman

wow wow wow wow wow wow

WOW!

That is the coolest thing I have seen in a long time!

Agreed!

[MuncieNolePAZ]

Very cool. Thanks for sharing.

[Snapolit1]

Good there was no COVID 19 in those days. What a crowd. Not much social distancing. People are on top of each other.

[GoCubsGo32]

Thank you so much for posting this! Really made my day!

[scooter729]

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

Good there was no COVID 19 in those days. What a crowd. Not much social distancing. People are on top of each other.

No, but Spanish Flu became a thing just 9 years after this. Lots of parallels between then and now, and how cities like Philadelphia didn't listen to social distancing guidance and got slammed, and others like St. Louis heeded the warning and got spared as hard of a hit.

[Mark17]

Originally Posted by scooter729

Agreed - I probably already have done so! Here's just a random snippet of the crowd when zoomed in - definitely can see all sorts of details on everyone...

I see all those straw hats and think of Rube Waddell going after Andy Coakley's hat in 1905, saying something about it being one day past the straw hat deadline. And they tussle........

And Rube misses the World Series, and never gets another chance.

[tschock]

Scott,

Awesome piece! I love photos like this. A snapshot in time that isn't staged.

Would you care to share a bit more on how you came across this piece?