{"id":47,"date":"2015-04-16T10:47:50","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T14:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/blog\/?p=47"},"modified":"2015-05-14T11:55:20","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T15:55:20","slug":"the-book-of-baseball-1911-with-team-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/the-book-of-baseball-1911-with-team-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"The Book of Baseball (1911) with Team Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a few great images from <em>The Book of Baseball<\/em>, published in 1911. First is the wonderfully illustrated cover, which vividly recalls the dead-ball era.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49\" src=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/the-book-of-baseball-1911-cover.jpg\" alt=\"The Book of Baseball (1911)\" width=\"600\" height=\"858\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/the-book-of-baseball-1911-cover.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/the-book-of-baseball-1911-cover-210x300.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Up next is a team photograph of what I believe to be the 1910 Chicago Cubs, who went 104-50 that year and won the National League Pennant.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_50\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/the-book-of-baseball-1911-chicago-cubs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-50\" src=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/the-book-of-baseball-1911-chicago-cubs.jpg\" alt=\"1910 Chicago Cubs\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/the-book-of-baseball-1911-chicago-cubs.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/the-book-of-baseball-1911-chicago-cubs-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-50\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1910 Chicago Cubs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And here were their opponents, the 1910 Philadelphia Athletics as led by Connie Mack.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/the-book-of-baseball-1911-philadelphia-athletics.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-51\" src=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/the-book-of-baseball-1911-philadelphia-athletics.jpg\" alt=\"1910 Philadelphia Athletics\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/the-book-of-baseball-1911-philadelphia-athletics.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/the-book-of-baseball-1911-philadelphia-athletics-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1910 Philadelphia Athletics<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The A&#8217;s got three wins from pitcher Jack Coombs en route to a World Series victory in five games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Book of Baseball (1911) front cover, as well as team photos of the 1910 Chicago Cubs and Philadelphia Athletics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[17,16,18,19,20],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-1910s","tag-baseball","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-philadelphia-athletics","tag-photographs","wpcat-15-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/53"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}