Souvenir Square USA 1912 vintage_Eureka_map recalls a season when umpires

recalls a season when umpires worked alone behind the plate in waistcoats and bowlers

a Vanished Thoroughfare conjures the lost elegance of upper Manhattan when brownstone stoops met carriage traffic and the avenue still wore its Sunday best

sleeve stripes

rendered in the wistful idiom of a lithograph that knew it was already documenting a place lost to its own ambition

Souvenir Square USA 1912 vintage_Eureka_map recalls a season when umpiresSouvenir Square Usa 1912 Ch 185475 2 2 a 1912 souvenir square from the dead ball era, when ballparks smelled of cigar smoke and printer's ink, and a small lithographed keepsake was the closest most fans came to carrying the diamond home. The square format and modest scale mark it as the sort of pocket trophy slipped between scorecard pages and forgotten for a century. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American archives the U.