(SPORTS BASEBALL) Cabinet card photograph of a baseball gam

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(SPORTS--BASEBALL.) Cabinet card photograph of a baseball game at the Boydton Academic and Bible Institute. Photograph, 3½ x 4½ inches, on original plain mount, with period manuscript caption on verso reading "A game of base ball, Boydton Inst."; minor wear to mount, a bit of retouching to lower left corner. Boydton, VA, 15 April 1891

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An early image of a Black college baseball game. Boydton was never an athletic powerhouse. These players are not wearing uniforms, and no spectators or facilities are in evidence, suggesting that this was a casual springtime intramural game on a nice open field.