Leslie Mann Baseball Lantern Slide, No. 21

Item Information

Title:
Leslie Mann Baseball Lantern Slide, No. 21
Description:
Rogers Hornsby, a second baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals, practices his batting swing. In this image, he has completed his swing and is showing the end of his follow through. Joe Sugden, a Cardinals coach, watches the baseball after it travels off of Hornsby's bat into the field.
Creator:
Mann, Leslie
Date:
1920–1925
Format:
Photographs
Location:
Springfield College Archives and Special Collections
Collection (local):
Leslie Mann Baseball Lantern Slide Collection
Subjects:
Baseball
Baseball caps
Hornsby, Rogers
St. Louis Cardinals
Batting
Batting Swing--Follow Through
Sportsman Park, St. Louis, Missouri
Link to Item:
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Publisher:
Springfield College
Language:
English
Notes:
This lantern slide is similar to slide 20 except it shows the front view position that a batter's arms should come to when completing their follow through. Hornsby completes a 180 degrees arm movement and keeps his shoulders on a level line. His left shoulder pulls backwards as his right shoulder moves forward. This slide is important because it shows a different view of the proper follow through position a batter should follow after completing their swing. A proper follow through maximizes the strength of a swing and makes a batter more likely to be successful.
Rogers Hornsby was born on April 27, 1896 in Winters, Texas. He played for the St. Louis Cardinals, New York Giants, Boston Braves, and the St. Louis Browns during his career, but he spent most of his years as a member of the St. Louis Cardinals. He is considered one of the greatest hitters of all time, and was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1942. Hornsby has the second highest career batting average in MLB history behind only Ty Cobb, with a lifetime batting average of. 358. He led the national league in batting seven times in his career. After retiring, Hornsby was a manager. One of the craziest facts about Hornsby is that he wasn't that good at baseball when he first started playing in the major leagues. He was skinny during his first season, and hit.246. His manager told Hornsby he was a little light, but he had the talent and said he was going to farm him out for a year. What he meant by this was he would send Hornsby to the Minor Leagues for a year to help him develop his baseball skills. However, Hornsby took this saying of farm out literally, and he spent the winter on his Uncle's farm. He gained 30 pounds of muscle and then became one of, if not, the greatest hitter in major league history. Hornsby was a very confident man who wasn't afraid to speak his mind, as he even called his manager a "boob" and his teammates "pigeons". Because of this, he often didn't get along with his teammates or coaches. Overall, though Hornsby may have been a difficult person to be friends with, he was one of the greatest baseball players of all time.
Side 21 is a follow up of slide 20 as both show the correct follow through position that batters should have, but from different angles. Leslie Mann identifies the player in slide 20 as Hornsby on page 7 of his manual titled the Fundamentals of Baseball, and since it is a continuation slide, the player in slide 21 also appears to be Hornsby. I used facial recognition to identify the player standing behind Horsnby as Joe Sugden, a Cardinals coach.
Poor condition;
There is a crack that runs along the center of the image, and a few smallar cracks located on the right corner. The cracks on the right corner could especially be an issue because the image could fall apart easily.
This digital image is made from two separate digital scans; one scan of the lantern slide (reflective); one scan of the image (transparency); the two images were then combined in Photoshop to create the final image.
Lantern slide from the Leslie Mann baseball instruction course, "The Fundamentals of Baseball"
1. "Rogers Hornsby."National Baseball Hall of Fame, [https://baseballhall.org/hof/hornsby-rogers. Accessed 5 Oct. 2017]. _Internet Archive_. [https://web.archive.org/web/20171005174129/https://baseballhall.org/hof/hornsby-rogers] 2. Paul Rogers III, C. "Rogers Hornsby." Society for American Baseball Research, edited by Gregory H. Wolf, [https://sabr.org/author/c-paul-rogers-iii. Accessed 5 Oct. 2017.] _Internet Archive_. [https://web.archive.org/web/20171005172551/https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/b5854fe4]
Identifier:
LANT-BSBL-021-03
021