Free Antique Baseball Coloring Page

Bustles and Baseball? 
An old illustration from the 1880's Victorian Bustle Era.

I ran across this old graphic recently while doing research on a completely different project. It was in the Public domain, and yet needed a little facelift, so to speak. I have enlarged it and cleared it of some torn areas plus one scratch using photoshop processes. There is a bit of a quality issue as far as resolution goes, but since it is intended to be either hand colored or tinted, I saw this as being  a very minor issue. My recommendation would be to use colored pencils. After all, it is fairly small (not even filling the 8 1/2 by 11 inch final size) and yet it is also very full of details! Please adjust your printer margin settings to .25 inches (1/4 inch) for this one.

My! - how they did used to dress up for the ball park! Americans really would do that a lot. Almost everybody wore hats, and some men would even wear suits. The women in the foreground of this picture wear hats, corsets, and long dresses with bustles underneath. Just look at all of the different hat styles the ladies are wearing to this game! Personally, I like the small top hat that another woman is wearing.

In the distance, there is an obviously very busy harbor of some sort. This must be a port town somewhere. I wish that I could share the location of this old ball field with all of you. Perhaps somebody can help me out with the history and location? Meanwhile ~

Happy Coloring!

PPSColorMe™: An Antique Baseball Game Graphic

Download HERE

Display version

(lower quality than the download)

Credits:

nypl.org

Free for use.

I'm keeping this in the Public Domain.

Thank you

for helping me to

keep free things free!

Let's Play Ball !

Women's Pro Baseball Blog Button

Recently, here at the Studio, a button was offered which reads, "Art is a manly sport." (which see in our right hand column)

The fact that it is, of course, is obvious to anybody with sense, as both women and men do enjoy getting creative with color or objects, etc.

Women, likewise, can enjoy playing or watching sports, just like men. To even the odds, or to bring things into balance again, the new button is all about women playing pro sports.

In this country, from 1943 to 1954, a few rare women played a form of supported major league baseball that has yet to be repeated. For more information on the subject, you can go HERE and HERE. (I like the second link the best) Though they got called girls, and even were sometimes jeered at from the stands for not being male players, they were women playing hard and fast ballgames.

In honor of the feminine sport enthusiasts among us, the Studio is now prepared to offer you a new button. It is a sort of answer to the prior button about art being manly as well as being feminine.

The photo being used in the button offered below, is of pro player, Dorothy "Dottie" Schroeder. You can find out more about her HERE, and a little bit in the video above.

Attribution for the Public Domain photo may be found beneath her photo HERE. According to her bio, she played for the full 12 seasons--and was singular in having done so.

So, let's do what Dottie was saying in her photograph and "Play Ball!" with our
Happy Creativity!

Dorothy "Dottie" Schroeder Baseball Blog Button

(It is best to use the "shrink to fit" portion of your blog button gadget window for this 96px PNG)

Download HERE

(below is our display copy)

You are free to:

use this button at your blog for the fun of it, or to celebrate the womanly art of sports.

You are not free to:

repackage it in any way, for sale or for your own offering elsewhere.

Please respect our gifts for the public's use.

Thank you.

Baseball Graphics: Free for Father's Day

Baseball Series Part 2

Our second offering in this series will be mainly colorful rather than plain black and white like last weekend's. 
This time, we offer two sets two ways, and in two separate formats (Digital or Print, at 8.5 inch by 11 inch or 12 inches square).We hope that you will find these useful in the making of projects for your own fathers, husbands, boyfriends or friends (or for yourself, for that matter!).
Note: all of these have half inch borders on all four sides.
Happy Creativity!

Take Him Out to the Ballgame (for Print version)

Download HERE

Digital PNG Version (11 inches by 8.5 inches, at 300dpi)

Download HERE

All Star Greats

Print Version (same 12 by 12 format) 

Download HERE

Digital PNG Version (also 12 inches by 12 inches)

Download HERE

Image Sources:

Library of Congress

NYPL

Baseball audience silhouette reprocessed completely 

by us here at Plush Possum Studio.

You are free to:

make art using the images above for either fun or profit.

You are not free to:

Repackage any of them for sale.

Please respect our gifts for the public's use.

Thank you.

Free Father's Day Baseball Graphics (Part 1)

PPS goes to the Ball Park for you this weekend, and with not a single moment to lose! After all, in just two weeks' time, we will be celebrating our American Father's Day.

But this is also Baseball season, so we have decided to run the bases in hopes of making a home run with free summertime sports graphics for our guests.

Our first offering features some of baseball's all time greats. 

From left to right, they are as follows:

1.) Satchel Paige, one of the finest pitchers America will ever see

2.) Chick Keating, shortstop (that is one tough role to play!) for two clubs (Cubs and Phillies)

3.) Babe Ruth, a superior hitter, known for hitting 714 career home runs, and considered to be one of the all time greats of the game

4.) Jackie Robinson, who played in a total of 6 World Series, and who began in the old Negro League, eventually having a stellar career playing Major League ball

As for our silhouette, this had to be completely overhauled, and it took about a total of 7 hours to clear up all of the jagged edges and messiness in order to remanufacture it for use. All of our work on it will therefore be copyrighted. (Please see our guidelines, below, in red)

First up, we offer our classic sized printable, followed by its Digi partner. Then we will offer you a 12 by 12  Digi set, with two silhouettes instead of one. 

These sets will be followed by more, next time in full color. 

We hope to have hit a real "homer" with our initial set for you today.

As per usual, all of these have at least 1/2 inch margins, if not more.

Happy Father's Day Creativity!

American Baseball Greats

Download HERE

American Baseball Greats Digi PNG Version

(Same size)

Download HERE

(same as above, but without any background, and ready for digital processing)

12inch by 12 inch Digital PNG Version

(same as above, but which features two ballgame crowd silhouettes instead of one)

Download HERE

Image sources:

Library of Congress

Wikimedia Commons

(please attribute as per Wiki Licenses)

We will list links here at our earliest convenience

You are welcome to:

use these images in your artwork for fun or profit provided we (for the silhouette in this case) and Wikimedia Commons (photo links will be provided shortly) are given credit 

(a link to our site would be nice, thank you)

You are not welcome to:

Repackage any of these items for sale in any way.

Please respect the work we are giving the public.

Please respect the rights of the public, as well as the rights of the image providers over at Wikimedia Commons.

Thank you for cooperating in this matter.