Baseball players Tags: 1800s children, 19th century, antique schoolhouse, brick school building, children playing baseball, early baseball history, historic school group, historical schoolyard, one-room schoolhouse, period clothing, photo of the week, pitcher and batter, rural education, sandlot ball, school children, schoolyard activities, sepia photograph, vintage baseball, Share on: Share: What makes this schoolhouse photo particularly fascinating is the presence on the lower left of a pitcher about to throw a baseball to a young batter poised to hit it.View our photo collection! View Collection