1911 Phillies Baseball Only Slightly Worse

The Library of Congress recently opened a Flickr account — the profile page says “Yes. We really are THE Library of Congress.” — with 3,000 photos from archives which are believed to have no restrictions on usage.

Naturally, I searched Philadelphia on the LoC’s account and, basically, only a bunch of baseball photos came up. But as you can tell from the shot of the Philadelphia Phillies’ Sherry Magee, they are interesting if only to show that nobody attended Phillies games in 1911, either.

Update: A reader IMs: “I think I see Bill Conlin in the back of that shot.” Bada-bing!

THE Library of Congress [Flickr]