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Posted By: davidcycleback

In early photography, long exposure was required. Thus there are very few real outdoor action photos. Almost all 1800s baseball photos have the player(s) standing still for the camera. The reason you see those balls hanging from strings on the Old Judges is because the photographers couldn't photograph a moving ball.

The first true color photograph was invented in 1907, so there would be no 1800s photos with true colors. Of course, one could color a black and white photo.

I don't know what issue was the first to have real life colors (from a color photo as opposed to colorized in), but I would imagine it was after WWII.