Baseball in the Bronx

About Baseball in the Bronx

OPEN CALL
Submit your photos for Baseball in the Bronx
On view at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, April 13 through May 13, 2012
Submission deadline: March 16, 2012.


Do you know baseball in the Bronx?
Do you know someone who plays baseball in the park or as part of a school team? Do you have friends, relatives, or neighbors who played baseball in the Bronx when they were growing up? This is an OPEN CALL for historical and contemporary photographs from students, area residents, baseball aficionados, and others, documenting sandlot, youth, adult, semi pro and high school baseball in the Bronx from the 1940's or earlier to the present day. Up to five photographs from each submission will be exhibited at The Bronx Museum of the Arts in the exhibition Baseball in the Bronx, on view from April 13 through May 13, 2012.


How to submit:
You can submit online by adding your photos to this Flickr group, or you may mail or drop off prints (not originals) at the Bronx Museum. Prints should be sent together with a submission form in one envelope. To get a prints submission form with instructions, please write bronxitesinbaseball@gmail.com or download from the link below.

bronxmuseum.org/eblasts/baseballbx.pdf


To submit online here via Flickr:
• Create a free user account with Flickr, then upload your baseball photos to Flickr. (Make sure your photographs are at least 1024 x 768 pixels in size!) Be sure to enter a description for each photograph, and also tag each photo as “baseballinthebronx”.

• Join this “Baseball in the Bronx” Flickr group and add your photos to the group pool.

• Important! Email bronxitesinbaseball@gmail.com after you have added your photos to this group and request the online submission form. Fill out the form. This way we can contact you if needed.



FAQs

What exactly are you looking for?
We are looking for photos that document the rich baseball history of our borough among the Bronx's many ethnic groups, both historical material and contemporary photos of youth and sandlot leagues from the 1940s (or even earlier) until today. Examples are: past and present photos documenting La Caribe Baseball League in Crotona Park, or players past from high schools like Monroe, Stevenson or Truman, or photos documenting neighborhood little league teams today in the Bronx, but not limited to these. Think of grassroots baseball, such as local youth baseball, women’s and girl’s teams, softball teams, church teams, industrial and beer leagues, as well as school teams.

How do I find photographs like these?
Ask your family members, friends, and neighbors to tell you their baseball stories, and ask if they would be willing to lend their photographs to the Bronx Museum for this special exhibit.

What size are you looking for?
Photos can be in color or black and white, saved as a high quality jpeg, no smaller than than 1024 on the longest dimension.

I have a baseball collection. Can I submit materials other than photographs for this exhibition?
Please write a short paragraph summarizing what materials that you think may be of interest, and send to bronxitesinbaseball@gmail.com. Include your contact information.

How might my photographs be used?
Your photographs may be on display during the exhibition, reproduced for press materials about the exhibition Baseball in the Bronx, and/or included in an online archive associated with the exhibition. You must sign your permissions for these uses on your submission form. If you do not own the copyright to the photographs, you must obtain permission from the person who does. Note: if you took the photographs yourself, usually you own the copyright to the photos, unless they were made as work for hire for someone else.

I have another question about this open call. How do I contact you?
Please write bronxitesinbaseball@gmail.com.

http://bronxmuseum.org/eblasts/baseballbx.pdf