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New York Giants at the Polo Grounds New York prior to Game One of the 1912 World Series, October 8, 1912 (baseball)

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New York Giants at the Polo Grounds New York prior to Game One of the 1912 World Series, October 8, 1912 (baseball)

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Photograph shows the award ceremony for the Chalmers Award in which baseball player Lawrence (Larry) Joseph Doyle (1886-1974) received a new Chalmers automobile in 1912. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)
Original data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards: Giants, 10/8/12.
Corrected title and date based on research by the Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Baseball Research, 2006.
According to numbers on photo: 4) Red Murray, 5) Ferdie Schupp, 7) Rube Marquard, 9) Buck Herzog, 10) Larry Doyle, 11) George Burns, 12) John McGraw, 13) Christy Mathewson, (behind Mathewson) Chief Meyers, 14) Jeff Tesreau, 18) Art Fletcher, (trainer in background) Ed Mackall, 19) Wilbert Robinson (Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Baseball Research, 2006).
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Additional information about this photograph might be available through the Flickr Commons project at library_of_congress/2786286495

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01/01/1912
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No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see George Grantham Bain Collection - Rights and Restrictions Information https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/274_bain.html

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