1909 SUMMARY Image of baseball player Joe Tinker of the National League's Chicago Cubs baseball team, holding a baseball bat, standing in a batting stance at home plate on the field at West Side Grounds, located between West Polk Street, South Wolcott Avenue (formerly Lincoln Street), West Taylor Street, and South Wood Street in the Near West Side community area of Chicago, Illinois. Catcher Ira Thomas of the American League's Detroit Tigers baseball team, is crouching behind home plate, and umpire O'Day is standing behind the catcher. NOTES This photonegative taken by a Chicago Daily News photographer may have been published in the newspaper. SDN-054714, Chicago Daily News negatives collection, Chicago Historical Society. |