Lot 280
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March 18, 2018
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280 •(BASEBALL)
A group of 19 press photographs relating to baseball.
The group primarily includes staged portraits of the American pasttime's greatest ballplayers, including Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, and Roberto Clemente; and group portraits of teams, including the Baltimore Orioles and the Washington Senators; and with the famous photograph by Nat Fein The Babe Bows Out, depicting Babe Ruth giving a farewell to baseball. Silver prints, most ferrotyped, the images measuring 8x10 inches (20.3x25.4 cm.), and the reverse, nearly all with a typed adhesive press label on verso. 1950s-60s; printed later
[800/1,200]
