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- Baseball Game between Great Lakes Navy Team and Ford Administration All Stars, July 1943 - The Great Lakes Naval Training Station Bluejackets traveled to Dearborn, Michigan, to play the Ford All-Stars on July 14, 1943. The Bluejackets beat the hometown team 6-2, improving their record to 29 wins and only 6 losses. Five thousand fans showed up at Ford's Rotunda Field to watch the Bluejackets' victory.
- July 14, 1943
- Collections - Artifact
Baseball Game between Great Lakes Navy Team and Ford Administration All Stars, July 1943
The Great Lakes Naval Training Station Bluejackets traveled to Dearborn, Michigan, to play the Ford All-Stars on July 14, 1943. The Bluejackets beat the hometown team 6-2, improving their record to 29 wins and only 6 losses. Five thousand fans showed up at Ford's Rotunda Field to watch the Bluejackets' victory.
- Baseball Game between Great Lakes Navy Team and Ford Administration All Stars, July 1943 - The Great Lakes Naval Training Station Bluejackets traveled to Dearborn, Michigan, to play the Ford All-Stars on July 14, 1943. The Bluejackets beat the hometown team 6-2, improving their record to 29 wins and only 6 losses. Five thousand fans showed up at Ford's Rotunda Field to watch the Bluejackets' victory.
- July 14, 1943
- Collections - Artifact
Baseball Game between Great Lakes Navy Team and Ford Administration All Stars, July 1943
The Great Lakes Naval Training Station Bluejackets traveled to Dearborn, Michigan, to play the Ford All-Stars on July 14, 1943. The Bluejackets beat the hometown team 6-2, improving their record to 29 wins and only 6 losses. Five thousand fans showed up at Ford's Rotunda Field to watch the Bluejackets' victory.
- Baseball Game in Progress at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, 1870-1880 - Baseball became increasingly popular, competitive, and organized during the latter half of the 1800s. Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, formed an intermural squad just before the Civil War and played its first interscholastic match in 1866. This image shows a game at Phillips Academy in the 1870s -- perhaps against its rival Phillips Exeter Academy.
- 1870-1880
- Collections - Artifact
Baseball Game in Progress at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, 1870-1880
Baseball became increasingly popular, competitive, and organized during the latter half of the 1800s. Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, formed an intermural squad just before the Civil War and played its first interscholastic match in 1866. This image shows a game at Phillips Academy in the 1870s -- perhaps against its rival Phillips Exeter Academy.
- Mickey Cochrane with the United States Navy Great Lakes Baseball Team at Game versus the Ford All-Stars, July 1943 - The Great Lakes Naval Training Station Bluejackets traveled to Dearborn, Michigan, to play the Ford All-Stars on July 14, 1943. Five thousand fans showed up at Ford's Rotunda Field to watch the Bluejackets' 6-2 victory. The Navy's team was managed by former Detroit Tigers all-star catcher Mickey Cochrane (center).
- July 14, 1943
- Collections - Artifact
Mickey Cochrane with the United States Navy Great Lakes Baseball Team at Game versus the Ford All-Stars, July 1943
The Great Lakes Naval Training Station Bluejackets traveled to Dearborn, Michigan, to play the Ford All-Stars on July 14, 1943. Five thousand fans showed up at Ford's Rotunda Field to watch the Bluejackets' 6-2 victory. The Navy's team was managed by former Detroit Tigers all-star catcher Mickey Cochrane (center).
- Ford Baseball Team Game, 1941 -
- August 19, 1942
- Collections - Artifact
Ford Baseball Team Game, 1941
- Edison Gold Moulded Cylinder Record, "The Umpire is a Most Unhappy Man," May 1906 - This song, from the musical comedy "The Umpire", sums up the often difficult lot of the baseball umpire -- whose calls often garner the wrath of the fans -- with the line, "the only job that's worse is driver on a hearse." Edward M. Favor, a performer in Broadway musicals in the mid-1890s, had a clear, crisp voice that recorded well.
- May 01, 1906
- Collections - Artifact
Edison Gold Moulded Cylinder Record, "The Umpire is a Most Unhappy Man," May 1906
This song, from the musical comedy "The Umpire", sums up the often difficult lot of the baseball umpire -- whose calls often garner the wrath of the fans -- with the line, "the only job that's worse is driver on a hearse." Edward M. Favor, a performer in Broadway musicals in the mid-1890s, had a clear, crisp voice that recorded well.