Christy Mathewson by Conlon vintage map NOLA General Meagher at the Battle

General Meagher at the Battle of Fair Oaks

and the tenement clamor of Hester or Orchard Street

when a target was less a paper bullseye than a freestanding apparatus — bullseye

and Babe Ruth behind its famously soundproofed walls

Family Picture for the Million

Christy Mathewson by Conlon vintage map NOLA General Meagher at the BattleChristy Mathewson by Conlon a Charles Conlon press photograph of the Giants' great gentleman pitcher, his fadeaway grip and Polo Grounds composure caught in the silver bromide hush of the deadball era. Conlon's lens always seemed to find the quiet in his subjects, and here Matty looks less like a hurler than a scholar mid thought. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American archives the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office for