Baseball Game In 1891 New York

Vintage print of a runner rounding the bases in an early New York baseball game (hand-colored lithograph), 1891. Published in New York by Louis Prang & Company.

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By 1891, the time of the game in New York pictured, major league baseball had become a hotly contested labor arena. (Graphica Arts/Getty Images)

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