"Heroes of the World Series"
Times Wide World Photos
United States, active 1919–1941
1929
A 1929 gelatin silver print showing two baseball players kneeling to sign autographs for a ring of eager boys, made to document the celebrity spectacle of the World Series.
The image immediately commands attention with the crowded, leaning faces of the children pressing in around the kneeling players—lettered jerseys, hands clutching baseballs, and bright contrasts that make this public scene feel intimate and almost reverent.
As a piece of newspaper photography, it illustrates how early twentieth‑century press images turned athletes into mass‑culture heroes and helped define the visual language of modern sports fandom.
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
7 3/8 × 10" (18.8 × 25.4 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
The New York Times Collection
Accession
2145.2001
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