America's National Game

From the NYPL Digital Gallery, the Albert G. Spalding Collection of Early Baseball Photographs.

Over 500 photographs, prints, drawings, caricatures, and printed illustrations from the personal collection of materials related to baseball and other sports gathered by the early baseball player and sporting-goods tycoon Albert G. Spalding.

This collection includes 19th-century studio portraits of players and teams of the day, rare images, photographs, and original drawings.