Description: Dated ca. 1864, this is a photograph of the Ripley, Ohio, Cricket Club. The athletes' names are handwritten on the reverse; Will B[...], Jeff Johnson, Charlie D. Campball, J.Z.A. Portar, Chambars Leggeff, Frank Osborn, Howard Johnson, Bailey Hudson, Henry Stroutemburg (field captain), John K. Greenbow (field captain), and Hugh Hood. Written later is "Charles Delavan Campbell, third from left standing." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC1125_01
Subjects: Cricket; Photography--Ohio; Athletes; Sports teams
Places: Ripley (Ohio); Brown County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing members of the Clintonville high school basketball team, taken from the school's paper, The Clintonian, ca. 1916. The boys are identified as (left to right): Isbell, Hollenback, Manager Jacobs, Captain Zuber, Shapter, Long, Spangler, Coach. This image was included in a "Memory Book" compiled by Mrs. H. V. Cottrell, historian for the Clinton League (sometimes called the Clinton Welfare League) from 1938-1943. The book shows the development of the Clintonville neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio, and records the history of the League. The Clinton League was a women's group founded in 1912 to promote child welfare and later general welfare in Columbus, but which was based in and primarily focused on the area of Clintonville. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P285_MB1_137
Subjects: Clintonville (Ohio); Clinton League; Women--Charities; School buildings; Education--Ohio; Basketball teams; Sports--Ohio--History;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Mounted group photograph showing the Toledo State Hospital baseball team, posed with their equipment and their win-loss record for the 1897 season. The twelve team members are identified by last name and position beneath the photograph. In the back row, left to right, are Long (pitcher), Fink (pitcher), Langon (sub), Willard (center fielder) and Bentley (third base). In the center row, left to right, are Rockeyfellow (right field), Vaughn (second base), Hays (first base), Geey (left fielder) and Horan (shortstop). The two men in front are Brenitt (catcher) and Shuck (pitcher). Originally known as the Toledo Asylum for the Insane, the institution opened in 1888 on a 150-acre plat at the corner of Detroit Avenue and Arlington Avenue. It was the first institution in the United States to be built on the cottage plan; the grounds were situated in a park-like setting and housed a complex of 34 buildings. The name was changed to the Toledo State Hospital in 1894, and the Northwest Ohio Psychiatric Hospital now occupies the site. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: OVS2530
Subjects: Mental illness--Treatment--Ohio; Psychiatric hospitals--Ohio; Baseball teams; Sports--Ohio--History;
Places: Toledo (Ohio); Lucas County (Ohio)
 

Description: The Eden (Ohio) High School boys' basketball team. One boy holds a basketball reading "EHS 1922." Photograph by Harry Evan Kinley (1882-1969), a native of Upper Sandusky, Ohio. Kinley was active in local events and organizations, and spent his professional career as a clerk at his father's department store, and later as a travelling salesman for the Marion Paper & Supply Company (1934-1962). He was also an avid lifelong photographer, and the bulk of the Harry Kinley Collection is comprised of glass plate negatives documenting the Kinley family, the city of Upper Sandusky and Wyandot County and surrounding areas. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07834
Subjects: Cultural Ohio--Ohio Sports; Basketball teams; Basketball--Ohio--History
Places: Eden (Ohio); Meigs County (Ohio)
 

Description: Group portrait of a baseball team that was possibly company sponsored, ca. 1890-1910. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07880
Subjects: Fayette County (Ohio); Cultural Ohio--Ohio Sports; Baseball teams
Places: Washington Court House (Ohio); Fayette County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of a boys' baseball team composed of children who were residents at the McIntire Children's Home in Zanesville, Ohio, ca. 1890-1899. Ten boys, two of whom are African American, make up the baseball team. The McIntire Children's Home was named in honor of John McIntire, one of the first residents of Zanesville. In his will, McIntire (1759-1815) provided for the establishment of a school for poor children. The McIntire Academy operated between 1836 and 1856, when it was taken over by the Zanesville Board of Education. A Muskingum County Children's Home was established in 1865 to provide homes for poor or orphaned children; in 1874 it was renamed the McIntire Children's Home. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02865
Subjects: Sports; Baseball teams; Children; African American Ohioans; Group homes for children
Places: Zanesville (Ohio); Muskingum County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of the Wilberforce University baseball team. Pictured in the back row on the far left is Isaac Sappe Lane (1888-1979), a Wilberforce alumni who played baseball for teams including the Chicago Giants, the Dayton Marcos, the Columbus Buckeyes and the Detroit Stars before serving as the longtime head coach of the Wilberforce baseball team. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_P2_B05F08_A
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Wilberforce University; Sports; Baseball teams
Places: Wilberforce (Ohio); Greene County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photographic collage of the members of a Columbus, Ohio, baseball team, 1890. Head shots of the eighteen men are overlaid on a bisected baseball. Only the players' last names are provided. The team is believed to be the Columbus Solons based on the team's roster for the 1890 season. The Solons were a team in the American Association from 1889 to 1891 who played their home games at Columbus's Recreation Park. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07839
Subjects: Sports--Ohio--History; Baseball teams; Athletes
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Modern photographic print made from a glass plate negative depicting a baseball team that was likely company sponsored, in Columbus, Ohio, ca. 1900-1909. A man in the front row holds a megaphone with the words, "Chief Rooter." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07841
Subjects: Baseball teams; Cultural Ohio--Ohio Sports
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows Ohio native Zane Grey with the Orange A.C. Baseball Team, ca. 1896-1904. Prior to becoming a well-known author of western novels, Zane Grey was also a dentist and a semi-professional baseball player, with teams including the Orange Athletic Club and the Newark (New Jersey) Colts. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07882
Subjects: Baseball teams; Cultural Ohio--Ohio Sports; Baseball players; Sports--Ohio--History; Grey, Zane, 1872-1939; Literary Ohio
 

Description: Hamilton-Middletown and University of Cincinnati basketball players grapple for the ball, January 1958. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07899
Subjects: Basketball teams; Cultural Ohio--Ohio Sports; Athletes
 

Description: Cincinnati Royals stars Oscar Robertson and Jerry Lucas pose with basketballs, September 18, 1963. Robertson was a star of the Royals, playing for the team from 1960 until 1970, when he was traded to the Milwaukee Bucks. Lucas played for the team from 1963 until 1969. Both men also played on the U.S. Olympic Basketball team in 1960, and were inducted into the National Basketball Hall of Fame in 1980. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07903
Subjects: Basketball teams; Cultural Ohio--Ohio Sports; Athletes; Olympics
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)