#oldschoolbaseball

Lou Gehrig in Yankee Stadium🏟⚾️1932.

Duffy Lewis, Ed Burns, Dutch Leonard, Gavvy Cravath, Harry Hooper - Boston Red Sox and Philadelphia Phillies, 1915. By Baseball In color

A rare photo of Lou Gehrig & Joe DiMaggio rub through drills during spring training.

Willie Mays signing an autograph for a kid, March 1955.

Specifically, this is the 1922 Georgetown baseball team. Apparently, this was the first sport played by GU students, with the first game played in 1866. Sadly, the team has pretty much never seen any big time success. Although the story goes that they were once called the Stonewalls and may have been the source for the Hoya Saxa cheer.

Harold Peter Henry aka "Pee Wee" Reese was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a shortstop for the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers from 1940 to 1958. He was also a Dodger All Star,1942,46,54.

Babe Ruth New York Yankees (1929)