Young Child Playing Baseball

Color photo of child swinging bat

Description

This color photograph shows a blond-haired, white boy of about five years old playing baseball. He appears to have just swung the bat; a baseball is airborne in the upper left of the photo. He wears a light-colored uniform with short sleeves and puffy, knee-length shorts, black socks and saddle shoes. Behind him, a corner of the backstop fence is visible, along with a white boy of about 10-12 years old watching, dressed in a traditional baseball uniform with blue ballcap, elbow-length shirt, black belt, pants that hit around mid-calf length and dark socks pulled up. He leans on a baseball bat and reaches for his cap with his right hand. They are on a dirt baseball diamond; behind it is green lawn, a street, sidewalk, bushes, trees and a portion visible of a brick house. 

The picture was most likely taken on the Hartford athletic field, and was possibly a Little League game, tryouts or training.

Basic details

Young Child Playing Baseball is an image, with genre photograph.
It was created around 1950-1959.
A. V. V. Shirk is the contributor.
A. V. V. Shirk is the photographer.
The original is in a private collection.

Subjects

It covers the topics baseball and Little League.
It covers the Worthington neighborhood Old Worthington.
It features the address 788 Hartford Street.

Record details

This file was reformatted digital in the format video/jpeg.
The Worthington Memory identification code is wcd0841.
This metadata record was human prepared by Worthington Libraries on . It was last updated .