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Sages and Statesmen of the 19th Century — a composite engraving in the parlor tradition

and the press obliged

stake-driven sentinel from the rough-and-tumble dawn of American field sports

where brick halls and elm-shaded walks were rendered with the quiet authority of an institution already old enough to consider itself eternal

World Series rustic sleigh Sages and Statesmen of theWorld Series a press photograph from the autumn classic, when the diamond narrowed to a single week and the country leaned in close. The image carries that particular gravity of October baseball, where every pitch is weighed against the ones that came before it. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American archives the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office for inventor's drawings, and from the great American tobacco card and