Leslie Mann Baseball Lantern Slide, Letter G

Item Information

Title:
Leslie Mann Baseball Lantern Slide, Letter G
Description:
Leslie Mann created a diagram showcasing a baseball player attempting to catch a baseball that was hit to him with their back turned towards the ball.
Creator:
Mann, Leslie
Date:
1922
Format:
Photographs
Location:
Springfield College Archives and Special Collections
Collection (local):
Leslie Mann Baseball Lantern Slide Collection
Subjects:
Baseball
Baseball caps
Baseball fields
Fielding
Fielding Stance
Fielding--Fly Balls
Link to Item:
https://cdm16122.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16122coll10/id/273
Terms of Use:
Rights status not evaluated.
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Publisher:
Springfield College
Language:
English
Notes:
No;
This is a more difficult type of catch to make then if the fielder was attempting to catch a baseball with the fielder facing the baseball. It is more difficult to get a perception of the location of the baseball especially if the player's back is turned towards the baseball. The slide shows four different possible heights of a baseball that is hit to a fielder in the air. Trajectories 1 and 2 represent line drives hit towards the fielder while trajectories 3 and 4 represent more traditional fly balls hit to the fielder. Number 3 is more like a fly ball than path 1 or 2, but the fly ball reaches its peak at a much lower point than path 4 and therefore the fielder will have less time to react to catch the fly ball than in path 4 where the ball is hit higher into the air. A fielder must be prepared to field all four of these different types of fly balls, and the diagram represents the differing positions of the glove that the fielder must take in each of these positions in order to successfully catch the fly ball. It is very important for these techniques to be mastered especially in a situation where the player's back is turned towards the ball, which makes it more difficult to judge the location of the baseball and make a clean catch on the ball.
Poor condition;
There are multiple cracks running along the center of the image. These cracks make it difficult to see the four different paths of the baseball since the cracks run along where these four paths are.
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 image were then combined in Photoshop to create the final image.
Lantern slide from the Leslie Mann baseball instruction course, "The Fundamentals of Baseball"
Identifier:
LANT-BSBL-G-03
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