All Sports
Baseball, basketball, boxing, soccer, football, hockey, golf, gymnastics, rugby, swimming, track, tennis . . . the kinds of sports we participate in are innumerable. These are photos of people playing sports over the past century and a half. Read more >>
No, we don't have photos of the first Olympic Games in 776 BC but since the invention of photography, sports activities have been popular subjects for photographers. Just look at the popularity of baseball and football cards! From horse races to football and baseball games to archery and swimming and golf and from professional adult teams to children's teams, the equipment and clothing may change but the joy of the people participating and those watching them remains the same.
Some fascinating facts about various sports:
These photos are as much fun - and sometimes as surprising - as watching an entire game!
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Some fascinating facts about various sports:
- The first baseballs had something like a walnut or a rock in the center for weight. Yarn or string was then wrapped around the center.
- Olympic Gold medals aren't all - or even mostly - gold: they are at least 92.5% silver but must contain a minimum of 6 grams of gold.
- In baseball, lending a bat to a fellow player is a serious jinx.
- NFL referees also receive Super Bowl rings.
- Despite running about three hours, actual playing time in a Major League Baseball game has been clocked at under 18 minutes.
- In basketball, bouncing the ball before taking a foul shot is considered good luck.
- Former 49er quarterback Steve Young is the great-great-great-grandson of Brigham Young, second president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the founder of Salt Lake City.
These photos are as much fun - and sometimes as surprising - as watching an entire game!
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A photo of James Naismith. He created the game of Basket Ball in 1891 at the age of 30 - using a soccer ball, two peach baskets, and 13 rules. A simple game that grew into a national sport.
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A photo of 3 Olympic skaters in the 1924 Olympics in France. They are Herma Planck-Szabo of Hungary, Ethel Muckelt of Britain and Beatrix Loughran of the U.S.
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A photo of two of the players in the All-American Girls Professional Ball League (AAGPBL), created during World War 2.
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A photo of Horace Lucas and his high school football team in John Day, Grant, Oregon in the 1920s.
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A photo of the Hi-Y Champs 1945-46 Pitman, NJ. 1st row-Ken Reeves, Francis Cogan, Carroll Loughlin, Lynn Schoepske, Bud Ross
2nd row- Melvin Luce, Bob Ducat, Jim Walker, Bob Adams, Ric Cancglin, Norman Cancglin.
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A photo of "Indian Red" Lopez, Ernie, at the LA Gym training
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A photo of Karl Fredrik Albert Thommessen as a gymnast. Karl Thommessen is the one sitting to the right in the picture. Unfortunately I do not know who the others are.
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Jimmy Clabby posing circa 1910-1915. Photo is captioned: "Jimmy Clabby Welterweight Champion."
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Beautiful thoroughbred racehorse Paul Jones w/ jockey Ted Rice after winning the 46th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in 1920. The winner received a purse of $30,375. Tomorrow at the 140th running, it's estimated that the winner will receive approx $1.2 million.
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A portrait of Jackie Roosevelt Robinson by Arthur K. Miller.
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A photo of Allen Tsukasa Masuda
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Horse race meeting at Mineral Banks, Upper Ringarooma Distrct
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Self-portrait of Charles Elliott Gill with rifle and dog in a wooded area. Going hunting
Missouri, 1900 -- 1910
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Boy back from hunting.
A boy in a cap, double-breasted jacket, pants rolled at the knee, long socks and short boots holds a dead racoon by its back feet in each hand.
Missouri -- Dent County
1900 -- 1910
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A photo of Joseph Randall of Dalton, KS - Born: December 8 1892
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The first winner of what became known as the Triple Crown - winner of the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Belmont stakes - Sir Barton was bred in Kentucky.
Ridden by jockey Johnny Loftus and owned by J. K. L. Ross, Sir Barton won all three races in the space of only 32 days (and there was another race, the Withers Stakes during that time as well!). In the first two races, he led the whole way. In the Belmont, he set a course record. He was retroactively named the 1919 Horse of the Year.
He was retired to stud in 1921 and died of colic in 1937 at a ranch in Wyoming at the age of 21.
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A photo of James Francis Thorpe on the Canton Bulldogs football team, circa 1915
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A photo of James Francis Thorpe
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A photo of Steven Wayne Golowski
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A photo of Chris Mazdzer in 2010 - American luger
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A photo of Chris Mazdzer. At the 2018 Winter Olympics, he won the Silver Medal for the United States in the luge event. This was the first medal in the singles luge for the United States.
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A photo of "Rocky Graziano" and old buddy Jake winking for the press.
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A photo of "Rocky Graziano"
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A photo of "Rocky Graziano" - Thomas Rocco Barbella
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A photo of Arthur Ashe and Gerald Ford
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Jets vs Raiders, 1968 - the last two minutes of the game, in which the Raiders came from behind to win, weren't shown. The network cut in to show a remake of the movie "Heidi." A huge uproar ensued.
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Found this photo on a collage in Antique Bookstore Old Ellicott City, Maryland near train depot car. Eddie was born 1910 in Tennessee. One of the clippings mentions an event in East Baltimore.
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A photo of Alberto G Cuen, Boxer in Los Angeles Ca who went from local to state and lost by decision. Moved to Delano Ca there after
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A photo of Wright Tharrett
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Silas B Dunklee at right, coach
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Silas B Dunklee, far right
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A photo of Pat McAllister, The Irish Terror
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The photo was taken at a game between the VRU Select Side and the Potomac Union Select Side at the Washington RFC fields at Kenilworth Park in Washington, D.C. Ray Equi, John Mellish and Joe Seals were the VRU coaches. The game was in early November of 76 as part of the ERU challenge cup called the Familton Cup. I know it was then because it was before I grew my beard, which was in December of 76. Note that Ozzie Osbourne was still playing center. I would have to really dig to try to find documentation of the score, I can't even remember if we won or lost. Also significant is that the VRU team had three Eagles (Culpepper, Cook and Purvis) and two more who made the USA National trials by being on the ERU select side (Dickinson and Van de Castle). I say that the game was against the PRU, but it is possible that it was against the EPRU as well as there were four select sides at the field that day. Let me try to do some digging in my ancient files to see if I can find out. If it was against the Potomac team, they had Rob Bordley, Dan Wack and Mike Conroy on it, so there would have been 6 Eagles on the field that day in D.C., not an everyday occurrence that close to Virginia. The VRU team was:
1. John Fleming (Richmond)
2. Willie O'Keefe (Roanoke)
3. Clint Francis (Virginia)
4. Billy Bolton (Richmond)
5. Lance Van de Castle
6. Pete Sweet (Richmond)
7. Clarence Culpepper (Roanoke)
8. Jody Walker (Norfolk)
9. Dickie Cook (Virginia)
10. Rich Waddell (Roanoke)
11. Jim "Rabbit" Dickinson (Virginia)
12. Ozzie Osbourne (Norfolk)
13. Otis Purvis (Norfolk)
14. Bubba Cochran (Norfolk)
15. Doug Korber (Virginia)
Didn't have any reserves, because that was back in the days when there was not such a thing. If you got hurt or left the field, the rest of your team played a man down.
Thanks,
Lance
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A photo of Secretariat running the Kentucky Derby in 1973. He went on to win the Triple Crown, becoming the first Triple Crown winner in 25 years.
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A photo of the first jockey to win the Kentucky Derby - Oliver Lewis.
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A photo of a vendor selling mint juleps in the stands at the 1955 Kentucky Derby.
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A photo of Lowell E Barnes
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