JESSE BURKETT

"Baltimore and All-America base ball teams, California tour 1897."

Photographic print by Marceau, foto, San Francisco, copyright 1897. (Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-97621 (b&w))

This souvenir group portrait shows the Baltimore Orioles and a team of players from other National League clubs who barnstormed in exhibition games. At least three of the men portrayed, Jesse Burkett, Jimmy Collins, and Hughie Jennings, were later elected to the Hall of Fame.

Burkett is in the All-Stars uniform, above the word "Tour."

from Library of Congress American Memory Collection


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