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[New York Giants Opening Day line-up at the Polo Grounds [New York]. Left to right: Fred Snodgrass, Tillie Shafer, George Burns, Larry Doyle, Red Murray, Fred Merkle, Buck Herzog, Chief Meyers (baseball)] (LOC)

[New York Giants Opening Day line-up at the Polo Grounds [New York]. Left to right: Fred Snodgrass, Tillie Shafer, George Burns, Larry Doyle, Red Murray, Fred Merkle, Buck Herzog, Chief Meyers (baseball)] (LOC) by The Library of Congress.
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[New York Giants Opening Day line-up at the Polo Grounds [New York]. Left to right: Fred Snodgrass, Tillie Shafer, George Burns, Larry Doyle, Red Murray, Fred Merkle, Buck Herzog, Chief Meyers (baseball)]

1between 1910 and 1915

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Notes:
Original data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards: Giants starting lineup, 4/10/13.
Corrected title based on research by the Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Baseball Research, 2006.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Format: Glass negatives.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.11468

Call Number: LC-B2- 2512-11 

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budderflyman  Pro User  says:

Fred Merkle was famous for his "boner." Merkle's Boner was when he neglected to touch second base in the last game of 1908, and thus the Giants lost to the Cubs, had to play a playoff game and the Cubs won and then won the World Series....and THAT was the last time the Cubs won the World Series. Had it not been for Merkle's Boner, the Cubs would not have gone to the Series in 1908.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Merkle
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BƛƬƲĐΐƧƮƐ  Pro User  says:

fabulous picture.
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markva2  Pro User  says:

This is from April 10, 1913 according to the picture.
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budderflyman  Pro User  says:

Merkle was playing in 1913. He played quite a few years in the majors. I was just talking about his boner in 1908.
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budderflyman  Pro User  says:

Chief Meyers was a very good catcher, one of the best of his time. He lived a long life, I think he was nearly 90 when he died.
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The Library of Congress  Pro User  says:

We’re still working on getting the dates to match! When we first uploaded the photos, we didn’t have 4-digit years in all our records, so we used an early default date for each set.
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paul.barfoot  Pro User  says:

Snodgrass - OF,
Shafer - SS,
Burns - OF,
Doyle - 2B,
Murray - OF,
Merkle - 1B,
Herzog - 3B,
Meyers - C


Would Mathewson have been pitching?
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yankeefan1959  Pro User  says:

Incredible photo!
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