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Title: Baseball
Photographer: Unknown
Subject Headings: Sports Personnel - Athletes, Manners and Customs - Recreation - Sports - Ball Games - Baseball,
Condition: Fair Image - Plastic negative taken from a broken and cracked glass plate.
Description: First National Base Ball Club - Hancock, MI 1868? (Peter Morris doesn't think they played toghether til 1870. August 11, 1870 Hancock won championship when all these 9 played together per Peter Morris. He thinks this photo was taken that day.) [Photo of the team with their equipment.]
Source of Description: Back of photo [cataloger]
Institution: Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections
Donor: Unknown
Date of Photo: 1870?
Medium: still image
Color: black and white
Size: 5.5 cm x 5.5 cm
Polarity: Negative
Image No: MTU Neg 02648
Collection Name: MTU Negative Collection
Terms of Use: Rights to reproduce and distribute this image may be restricted. Contact the Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections for further information.
User Comments:
• Author Peter Morris makes a very good case that this photo was taken in 1870. However, the team name presumably does not refer to Hancock's First National Bank which wasn't organized until 1874. The players shown here are, front row: James Walls Trembath, second base; Archibald J. Scott, catcher; Thomas D. Meads, shortstop, captain; John T.V. Trembath, pitcher; and, Otto Charles Kunath, first base; back row: John Bittenbender, left field; Albert A. Brockway, center field; William Harry, third base; and, Joseph Johnson, right field.
10/2/2014 9:12:05 PM by John Haeussler
• Love this picture! My gg grandfather, Otto Kunath, is in the front row, far right. Saw it on the City of Hancock site (historical pics), but his name is spelled incorrectly there. M. Lamb
3/4/2011 8:10:51 PM by Anonymous