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Fred Merkle 1907
For what it's worth, here's a photo of the other photo from the "Merkle" game.
I cut this out of a 1908 non-sports weekly, can't remember which, 30+ years ago, to frame up with The New York Times account of the game (which incredibly begins with "Censurable stupidity on the part of player Merkle...)
This presumably is the next shot Conlon could've gotten after he left the field from foul territory near first base, just as chaos was erupting. Each image required a lot of physical work and was as inconceivable to the photographers of 1995 as the demands of 1995 are to smart phone/camera operators today. As much as this suggests Conlon had almost as bad a day as Fred Merkle on 9/23/1908, it should remind us how skilled and anticipatory he was to get shots like the famous shot of Ty Cobb sliding into third against Jimmy Austin.
The Merkle tag is wishful thinking. I haven't gone over every pixel here but I don't see any players and I suspect this could have been taken after the post-game drama had concluded, maybe 15-30 minutes after Bridwell's hit seemingly had won the game.
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