The Faces and Voices of Baseball's Deadball Era

A slideshow featuring pictures of baseball stars from 1900-1920. The soundtrack is clips from Lawrence Ritter's interviews with "Wahoo" Sam Crawford, Hans Lobert and Jimmy Austin which he used to write "The Glory of Their Times" in 1966, as well as the voices of Ty Cobb and Cy Young.

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Sports

Tags:

• baseball
• deadball
• wahoo
• sam
• crawford
• hans
• lobert
• jimmy
• austin
• ty
• cobb
• cy
• young
• honus
• wagner
• joe
• mcginnity
• willie
• keeler

[kapute2]

pretty nice to hear the voices from the past

[rsuriyop]

i really dig the way cobb used to talk.

[KyutiHuni]

Thank YOu~

[NoGoodBoyo1000]

Greatness transcends time. Eras don't matter.

[SuperTomcat622]

@Tox1cSunshine You're a fucking idiot. These guys would beat the shit out of today's players in a baseball game. Unlike current players, they didn't use steroids because they didn't need them.

[tucsonia]

I'm still trying it hard to believe that some of these images are more than a century old.

[leboharold]

@Tox1cSunshine im sure if you took the steroids out of todays ballplayers they would get their asses kicked by these fellas with no problem the deadball era was a matter of skill and strategy unlike today where its all show

[Tox1cSunshine]

these guys are so fucking scrawny put their team up against any team from the new era and they would get absolutely pulverized. man kind evolves and these prehistoric fucks would probably shit their pants before get a hit on tmodern day pitchers

[parkie101010]

I love how you can hear the ice in the glass when they talk to Cobb...

[deepcosmiclove]

I'm not so sure about that but I understand the sentiment. I watched a lot of baseball when I was a kid back in the 50s & 60s and today's players have a lot more range to say the least. The pitching is about the same I think, except that the old timers were probably mentally tougher. Back then though the old guys would tell me that the players of yesteryear were far superior: Frank Baker swung a 50 oz. bat and had to face the likes of Walter Johnson who was faster than Grove & Feller.

[Colin2k41]

@deepcosmiclove wrong... a good player in 1911 would be the best in 2011