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A Panoramic View
1913 was a very good year for the Washington team with a 94–60 second place standing. Their nucleus was pitcher Walter Johnson (pictured third from the right), who won each category of the pitching grand slam -- games won, earned run average, strikeouts, and shutouts. He was voted league Most Valuable Player, in perhaps his best season. This team photograph was made with a Cirkut camera, which rotates on a special tripod while exposing a narrow slit of film. This makes it possible for someone to appear in the picture twice, as player Germany Schaefer proved by posing on one end and running to the other end in time to be photographed there as well. |