Tom O'Rourke Boston Beaneaters Baseball Card Portrait pilot quote What survives is the texture:

What survives is the texture: a deadball-era infielder caught mid-stance

and the American line wheeling in pursuit

the bedside grief of a young republic learning

Thaddeus Stevens 1838

Tom O'Rourke Boston Beaneaters Baseball Card Portrait pilot quote What survives is the texture:Tom Orourke Boston Beaneaters Baseball Card Portrait a 19th century tobacco era portrait of a Beaneater in the woolen flannel and handlebar dignity of the National League's earliest seasons, when Boston was a dynasty and the game still smelled of cigar smoke and infield dust. O'Rourke gazes out with the stiff composure of a man posing for posterity before he quite knew what posterity meant. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from