when Johnson's fastball was already humming out of Washington and the Highlanders still patrolled Hilltop Park before they were ever called Yankees
and even the simplest tool was worth a draftsman's afternoon
Combat Between the Monitor and Merrimac at Hampton Roads - Vintage Maritime Print renders the March 1862 duel that rendered every wooden navy in the world obsolete by sundown — the Union's cheesebox-on-a-raft circling the Confederate ironclad in the smoke-choked shallows of Hampton Roads
and civic boosterism shared a single fairground
Lovatt's schematic answers a peculiar question of the age: how to rehearse a punch when your opponent isn't there to throw one back
Babe Ruth Full Length Portrait Standing Facing Slightly Left in Baseball Uniform civil war history when Johnson's fastball was alreadyBabe Ruth Full Length Portrait Standing Facing Slightly Left in Baseball Uniform 1 is a press portrait of the Bambino caught in repose rather than in swing bat absent, flannels hanging easy, the famous shoulders turned just off square to the lens. There's something disarming about seeing the home run king standing still, as if the photographer asked him, just once, to be a man before a myth. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from