Chicago White Sox at the Hanging Bridge photograph
Date1910 February 27
DescriptionA black-and-white team photograph of the Chicago White Sox posing in front of a train on the Hanging Bridge in the Royal Gorge in Colorado. The image caption (not shown) reads, "Chicago White Sox baseball team with owner Chalres Comiskey, at the Hanging Bridge in the Royal Gorge of the Arkansas River, enroute west via the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. February 27, 1910. Geo. L. Beam photo." A second caption (also not shown) reads, "Taken at the Royal Gorge in Colorado in February 1910 on the way to Spring Training in San Francisco, California. The Following players are in this photograph: 1B-Charles 'Chick' Gandill; 2B-Rollie 'Bunions' Zeider; SS-Lena 'Slats' Blackburne*; 3B-Billy Purtell; RF-Shano Collins**; CF-Paul 'Molly' Meloan; LF-Patrick 'Patsy' Dougherty; C-Fred Payne; OF-Freddy Parent; Inf.-Lee Tannehill; P-'Big Ed' Walsh***; P-Guy 'Doc' White; P-'Death Val[l]ey' Jim Scott; P-Fred Olmstead; P-Irv 'Young Cy' Young; P-Frank 'Seagan' Lange; P-Frank 'Piano Mover' Smith 'AKA'/Frank Elmer Schmidt; Manager: Hugh Duffy *1945-Hall of Fame. Hit .438 in 1894 for the Boston Braves. -This was the first team to play in Comiskey Park in July, 1910. *Lena Blackburne managed the White Sox in 1928 and 1929. **Shano Collins managed the Boston Red Sox in 1930 and 1931. ***Ed Walsh was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1946. Owner Charles Comiskey, in dress hat, is standing center of the backrow. Chick Gandil, organizer of the 1919 Black Sox Scandal, is standing at the far right, in front of man in street clothes. Ed Walsh is standing extreme right rear, holding railroad flag."
Object numberBL-1995-13833-01
Artist, Creator, or Manufacturer
Beam, George L. (George Lytle), 1868-1935
Subject
Smith, Frank, 1879-1952
Subject
Comiskey, Charles A.
Subject
Gandil, Chick, 1888-1970
Subject
Zeider, Rollie, 1883-1967
Subject
Blackburne, Lena, 1886-1968
Subject
Purtell, Billy, 1886-1962
Subject
Collins, Shano, 1885-1955
Subject
Meloan, Paul, 1888-1950
Subject
Dougherty, Patsy, 1876-1940
Subject
Payne, Fred, 1880-1954
Subject
Parent, Freddy, 1875-1972
Subject
Tannehill, Lee, 1880-1938
Subject
White, Doc, 1879-1969
Subject
Scott, Jim, 1888-1957
Subject
Olmstead, Fred, 1881-1936
Subject
Young, Irv, 1877-1935
Subject
Lange, Frank, 1883-1945
Classificationsphotographic materials
Duplicate/Alternate CopyBL-256.94
Collection NumberBA PHT 027 Baseball Subjects photographic materials
Dimensions10 x 8 in.
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Object number: BL-1995-13833-02
Beam, George L. (George Lytle), 1868-1935
1910 February 27
Object number: BL-1999-01139-001
Johnson, George, 1890-1940
probably 1909 May 22
Object number: BL-1999-03769-003
Philadelphia Giants (Baseball team)
circa 1910
Object number: B-1951-0338-009
Collins, Eddie, 1887-1951
1930 September 08
Object number: B-1959-0037-01
Clarke, Fred, 1872-1960
1925 or 1926
Object number: BL-1968-01451-1523
New York World-Telegram
Object number: BL-1968-01451-0093
New York World-Telegram
1920