Amazing 1888 Opening Day NY Giants cabinet. The cabinet was identified from a Sporting Times supplement. Thanks to my good friend Joe Gonsowski for sending me an article from the New York Herald which provided a detailed description of the game and the opening day festivities. There is a paragraph that directly relates to this photograph:
“About ten minutes to four an enterprising photographer set up four cameras and took several pictures of the New York and Philadelphia teams. Managers Mutrie and Harry Wright were photographed with them, and the boys on the “bleaching boards” sarcastically advised Mutrie to take off his plug hat. They also poked a lot of fun at Ewing when he knelt down to be photographed as though that was an attitude to which he was unaccustomed.
Somebody cried as the players stood grouped together, “Where’s Keefe? Where’s Tim?” There was a laugh at that, and another when, the photographer having taken all the negatives he wanted, that same somebody cried, “All right, take your base!”
Also, the article identifies the umpire pictured at left as Daniels. That would be Charles Daniels. Daniels was originally hired when the National League was formed in 1876 and he remained a NL umpire until 1889. He is credited with discovering Connie Mack, and he called the first no-hitter in major league history (as well as a perfect game). This is the only image of Daniels that I have ever seen.
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