Mel Ott and Honus Wagner photograph

Date1945 May 28

DescriptionA black-and-white photograph of Mel Ott and Honus Wagner comparing baseball bats before a game. Both men are holding their respective bats out and have them crossed in the air. Ott and Wagner are looking down towards the bats with straight faces. Ott is dressed in a New York Giants road uniform and Wagner is dressed in a Pittsburgh Pirates home uniform. A newspaper clipping is affixed to the back of the photograph (not shown) and states, "Mel Ott (right) of the New York Giants, will set a new National League record for bases hit when he exceeds the total of 4,888 established in 1917 by Honus Wagner, (left) now a Pirate coach, photographed at Giant-Pirate game in Pittsburgh, May 28." Based on the caption, this photograph was taken on May 28. Based on the caption and a date stamped on the reverse (also not shown), the photograph was taken on May 28, 1945.

Object numberBL-1968-01451-1293

Artist, Creator, or Manufacturer New York World-Telegram

Subject Ott, Mel, 1909-1958

Subject Wagner, Honus, 1874-1955

Subject New York Giants (Baseball team)

Attributes

Classificationsphotographic materials

Collection NumberBA PHT 001 New York World-Telegram photographic materials

Dimensions7 x 9 in.

Copyrighthttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

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