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[Matsuda (Waseda University, Japan) Is Safe; a Re-Enactment of a Play From a Baseball Game With Chicago University, Marshall Field, May 1911] (LOC)
by Roger Clemens on July 26, 2010
Baseball picture taken by The Library of Congress.
Close inspection seems to indicate that the man tagging the runner was not in the original photograph. Notice the shadow seems to be added in and not even connected to the person. Also, his eyes are not looking at the runner.
I’m not so sure that the runner was in the original, either. First of all, that line around his cap looks suspicions, then there is the shadow both in front of and behind of his left hand. Moreover, the look of the shadows of the subject are in and of themselves are quite different than the other shadows in the picture.
I’m not sure I agree. There is a lot of hand drawing around and on the two main figures, but those could just be to improve their look in newspaper reproduction, not a sign that the figures have been cut and pasted.
I do think this is a posed publicity shot and not a real play.
Hi,
The title should say "The University of Chicago," not Chicago University. The U of C baseball team is at Waseda University in Japan this very week (beginning March 21, 2008) to take up this old rivalry again, just for fun. There’s an article about it here.
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more on this at http://www.baseball-fever.com/showthread.php?t=25550
except, that is homeplate
And a bad call if the ball is in the fieders hand.He is out.
jjcole2343:
We agree. The new title incorporates observations from several comments. Thank you!
Close inspection seems to indicate that the man tagging the runner was not in the original photograph. Notice the shadow seems to be added in and not even connected to the person. Also, his eyes are not looking at the runner.
I’m not so sure that the runner was in the original, either. First of all, that line around his cap looks suspicions, then there is the shadow both in front of and behind of his left hand. Moreover, the look of the shadows of the subject are in and of themselves are quite different than the other shadows in the picture.
I’m not sure I agree. There is a lot of hand drawing around and on the two main figures, but those could just be to improve their look in newspaper reproduction, not a sign that the figures have been cut and pasted.
I do think this is a posed publicity shot and not a real play.
Hi,
The title should say "The University of Chicago," not Chicago University. The U of C baseball team is at Waseda University in Japan this very week (beginning March 21, 2008) to take up this old rivalry again, just for fun. There’s an article about it here.
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