Player Collection

GEORGE BEST (1946-2005). Northern Irish soccer player. Photograph, c1977

Chelsea Football Club team 1905-1906
Chelsea Football Club team and management, season of 1905-1906 (names below the photo). Date: 1905-1906

Dixie Dean, the legendary Everton centre forward, being introduced to Spanish international footballer Zamora at Goodison Park. December 1931

Babar, king of the elephants, and Celeste playing tennis at Celesteville. Illustration from one of Jean de Brunhoffs
BABAR THE ELEPHANT, 1930s. Babar, king of the elephants, and Celeste playing tennis at Celesteville. Illustration from one of Jean de Brunhoffs Babar books, 1930s

Hockey - Footwork, Dribbling and Passing demonstrated. Date: circa 1910s

JACKIE ROBINSON (1919-1972). John Roosevelt Robinson, known as Jackie. American baseball player. As a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers

Arsenal Football Club team and officials 1954
Arsenal Football Club team and officials, 1954 (names below the photo). The trophies on display are: Combination Cup, Mid-Week League Cup, Football League Cup, FA Charity Shield. Date: 1954

ENGLAND: SOCCER MATCH, 1966
Dave Mackay (left) of Tottenham Hotspur confronts Billy Bremner of Leeds United during a game, 20th August 1966. Referee Norman Burtenshaw blows his whistle to intervene

ARTHUR ASHE (1943-1993). American tennis player. Photographed during his match against Jimmy Connors in the mens singles final at Wimbledon, won by Ashe in four sets, 5 July 1975

France V Scotland Rugby
A Scottish player is tackled by a pair of Frenchmen. The match finished in a draw at 3- 3

WORLD SERIES, 1955. Left fielder Sandy Amoros of the Brooklyn Dodgers catches a deep fly ball hit by Yogi Berra of the New York Yankees in the sixth inning of the seventh

Giovanni Bottesini
Italian bass-player

Satchel Paige. American baseball player
LEROY R. PAIGE (1906-1982). Satchel Paige. American baseball player

Everton's FA Cup Victory: Celebrating with the Trophy (1995)
Evertons victorious players celebrate with the FA Cup Mandatory Credit: Ben Radford/ALLSPORT

English League Division One match at Anfield. Liverpool 1 v Tottenham Hotspur 1. Liverpool trainer Bob Paisley carries off injured fullback Emlyn Hughes. 29th April 1968

Playing Table Tennis - Edwardian - Etiquette
I am not sure whether it is my turn. (to write the postcard or to serve!!) A smart Gentleman makes a courteous enquiry to his glamorous young female table tennis companion. Date: circa 1904

David Bryant with Pipe
David Bryant, CBE, bowls legend; a trout-fishing, pipe- smoking man of Somerset who is regarded as the greatest player in the history of the sport

1930S Snooker Game
A snooker player prepares to play a shot as his partner looks on. Their smart attire reflects the gentlemanly traditions of the game

Play the Game Football book cover
Front cover of a book depicting a young boy kicking a football on the front cover. Date: c.1941

Playing billiards
Billiards, Ives, 42nd Street. Billiardist Morningstar shooting pool at Ives Billiards, 42nd Street, N.Y

Rugby match, South Africa v Somerset
A rugby match between South Africa (the Springboks) and Somerset, probably at Taunton, UK. A Somerset player is picking up the ball

1966 World Cup Final at Wembley Stadium July 1966 England 4 v West Germany 2 Captain Bobby Moore holds aloft the Jules Rimet trophy as he sits on the shoulders of his teammates They are L-R

Everton forward Bob Latchford celebrates after scoring his 30th goal of the season in the 6-0 win over Chelsea at Goodison Park. 29th April 1978

Senegal - Griot playing a Kora
Senegal - seated Griot playing a Kora, a 21-stringed harp lute that originated in the Gambia River valley with the Mandinko but is one of the most popular instruments in Senegal

Children?s Games, 1560. Artist: Bruegel (Brueghel), Pieter, the Elder (ca 1525-1569)
Children?s Games, 1560. Found in the collection of the Art History Museum, Vienne

Arsenal Football Club team and officials 1950-1951
Arsenal Football Club team (FA Cup holders) and officials, season of 1950-1951 (names below the photo). Date: 1950-1951

Female contortionist Diana Gaye playing records
The female contortionist Diana Gaye in the sitting room, putting a record on the record player, with an array of the latest LP covers on display. Date: 1971

Liverpool FC football team 1932-1933
Liverpool FC football team, 1932-1933 season. Date: 1932-1933

Dulwich Hamlet FC football team 1936. Back row: Stollery (Trainer), Benka, Morrish, Toser, Cummings, Woolgor, Robbins (Captain), Jonas (Honorary Secretary)

Clapton Orient FC football team 1936. Back row: Oakley, Murray, Farrell, Searle (Captain), Herod. Third row: Proudfoot (Manager), Wells, Heinemann, Rossiter, Iceton, Watson, Hillam, Affleck, Brooks

VLADIMIR HOROWITZ (1903-1989). American (Ukrainian-born) pianist, in concert at Carnegie Hall, April 1966

Joe Marler - England rugby player Date: 2010s

FA Cup Quarter Final match at Goodison Park. Everton 9 v Southport 1. Everton forward William " Dixie" Dean shows the power of his heading as he scores one of his four goals in the match

Laurie Cunningham outside Leyton Orient Football Club Pools Office. 2nd February 1976

The England Test cricket XI at Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, 1899. Artist: WA Rouch
The England Test cricket XI at Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, 1899. Englands team in WG Graces final Test, against Australia at Trent Bridge

Billy Bancroft, Welsh international rugby player
William John Billy Bancroft (1871-1959), Welsh-born international rugby player who played for Swansea and Wales. He also played county cricket for Glamorgan. 1890s

Louis Wain - flute player and mouse. circa 1900s

Dunfermline Athletic FC football team 1936. Back row: Dowie (Trainer), Johnman, Warden, Steele, Bolt, Crawford, Donald. Front row: Thomson, Syme, M Gowan, Thomson (Captain), Dobson. Date: 1936

Accrington Stanley FC football team 1936. Back row: Kerr, Robinson, Wilson, Gill, Ivill, Treanor, Hacking (Manager), Brennand (Trainer)

Huddersfield Town FC football team 1922-1923
Huddersfield Town FC football team c 1922-1923. Back row: Walter, Wood, Slade, Cowell, Barkas, Brough. Smith. Third row: Chaplin (Trainer), Marlow, Stentiford, Wilson, Goodier, Goodall, Cawthorne

A Little Impression by H. M. Bateman
Someone elses table - a little impression, by H. M. Bateman. A game of billiards descends into raucous laughter as one player accidentally rips a hole in the green baize. Date: 1918

ALL-STAR GAME, 1937. Major League baseball players Lou Gehrig, Joe Cronin, Bill Dickey, Joe DiMaggio, Charlie Gehringer, Jimmie Foxx, and Hank Greenberg at the 1937 All-Star Game

West Indies Cricket Team - 1957 Tour - Signatures
The West Indies Cricket Team - Tour of England 1957. Featured are the brilliant (Sir) Garfield (Gary) Sobers, Frank Worrell, Everton Weekes, (Sir) Wesley Winfield Hall and Sonny Ramadhin

BABE RUTH (1895-1948). American baseball chewing gum card, 1933

MICKEY MANTLE (1931-1995). American baseball player. As a member of the New York Yankees, tossing his bat aside and beginning his trot around the bases after hitting his 500th career home run off of

Keenor / Cardiff F ball
Fred Keenor, player for Cardiff City

Sheffield Wednesday Cup Final Team 1935
Group photo, Sheffield Wednesday Cup Final Team, 27 April 1935. Back row: Irwin (Trainer), Sharp, Millership, Nibloe, Brown, Catlin, Burrows, Walker (Secretary-Manager)

Alex Higgins - Snooker Player Date: 1980s

Terry Griffiths - Snooker Player Date: 1980s

Liverpool 0-1 Manchester United, FA Cup Final at Wembley Stadium, Saturday 11th May 1996, from left, Alex Ferguson, Eric Cantona and Brian Kidd. 11th May 1996

Everton footballer Alex Young and Ipswich goalkeeper Hall go up for a corner kick from which Everton got the ball into the net, but the goal was not allowed. 16th September 1961

Laurie Cunninghan, Brendan Batson and Cyrille Regis Nov 1978 of West Bromich Albion Football Club in 1978

Jack Allen heads Newcastles first goal, FA Cup Final, Wembley, London, 1932. Artist: Graphic Photo Union
Jack Allen heads Newcastles first goal, FA Cup Final, Wembley, London, 1932. The Arsenal players are Eddie Hapgood, goalkeeper Frank Moss, Herbie Roberts and George Male

Oxford and Cambridge Chess Match, 19th century

Frank Riseley
Frank Lorymer Riseley (1877 - 1959), British tennis player. Date: 1904

Albion Rovers FC football team 1936. Back row: Miller, Waddell, Shevlin (Captain), Beath, Anderson, Bruce. Front row: McPhee, Lyon, Rice, Graham, Grant. Date: 1936

Queens Park FC football team 1936. Back row: Campbell (Captain), Dickson, Smith, Hosie, Cross, Grant. Front row: Crawford, Kyle, Dodds, Martin, Soutar. Date: 1936

Queen of the South FC football team 1934-1935. Back row: McLachlan (Manager), Sneddon, Savage, Haywood, Fotheringham, Cumming, Smith, Culbert, Smith, Allan (Captain), Hutchison (Chairman)

Celtic Football Club 1905-1906
Group photo, Celtic Football Club 1905-1906: Davis (Trainer), Campbell, M Leod, Watson, Hamilton, M Nair, Wilson, Garry, M Court, Adams, Young, Hay, Bennett, M Menemy, Loney, Quinn, Somers, M Nair

Edinburgh Hibernian FC football team c 1922-1923
Edinburgh Hiberian FC football team c 1922-1923. Back row: Allan, Shaw, Harper, Strang, Miller, Dorman. Middle row: Ritchie, Paterson, Bryce, Templeton, Young, Duncan, McGinnigle. Rhodes

Bolton Wanderers FC football team 1935. Back row: Goslin, Atkinson, Smith, Jones, Finney (Captain), Taylor. Front row: Taylor, Eastham, Milsom, Westwood, Cook. 1935

Barnet FC football team 1936. Back row: Sanderson (Chairman), Lowe, McCarthy, Painter, Wade, Markwell, Finch (Captain), Parker (Trainer). Front row: Weightman, Morris, Garrett, Martin, Hall

Swinton RLFC rugby team 1934-1935. Back row: Lee, Stoddart, Wright, Hughes, Spruce, Armitt. Second row: Mee (Trainer), McGregor, McGurk, Hodgson, Sullivan, Butters, Green, Cheetham, Shaw, Evans

GEORGE H. RUTH (1895-1948). Known as Babe Ruth. American professional baseball player. Photographed in the 1920s by Nickolas Muray

JACKIE ROBINSON (1919-1972). John Roosevelt Robinson, known as Jackie. American baseball player. Playing first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn, probably 1947

Harlequin and Columbine, with orchestra
Harlequin and Columbine dancing on a stage, with an orchestra in the pit. 20th century

WORLD SERIES, 1941. A view of the action at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York, during Game 3 of the 1941 World Series between the Brooklyn Dodgers (in the field) and the New York Yankees

SOCCER GOALIES, 1974. English goalkeeper Peter Shilton (left) and Gordon Banks both jump to block a goal during a work-out at Stoke City, November 1974

GEORGE H. RUTH (1895-1948). Known as Babe Ruth. American baseball player. Ruth talking to a group of children, while playing for the New York Yankees. Photograph, 1924

WORLD SERIES, 1970. Brooks Robinson, third baseman for the Baltimore Orioles, kneels to catch a ball hit by Johnny Bench of the Cincinnati Reds to end the top of the first inning of Game 3 of

BASKETBALL GAME, 1966. Kareem Abdul Jabbar (Lew Alcindor), playing for UCLA, jumps to make a shot during a game against Southern California, December 1966

Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers (1878 - 1960), English tennis player and seven time winner of the ladies singles title at Wimbledon between 1903 and 1914

How Pianola Works 1912
How the player-piano works - air passes through the holes in the piano-roll and acts on the bellows mechanism, causing a hammer to strike a key

Milne / Aston Villa F ball
Dr V E Milne, player for Aston Villa

Highland Bagpipe Player
Ross : Victorias highland piper

Snowboard Sport Art 1
Justyna Jaszke

Gareth Edwards - Welsh rugby player Date: 1970s - 1980s

Cardiff Arms Park, with new North Stand (right), Circa 1935

Arsenal Football Club team and officials 1948-1949
Arsenal Football Club team and officials, season of 1948-1949 (names below the photo). Date: 1948-1949

Golders Green FC football team 1936. Back row: Walker, Shorland, Boston, Miles, Bloxham, Bradis. Front row: Breagan, Browne, Bucci (Captain), Evans, Boston. Date: 1936

Blackpool FC football team 1936. Back row: Hall, Cardwell (Captain), Smith, Dougall, Roxburgh, Watson, Wallace, Witham. Third row: Hampson, Davidson, Carter, Reeday, Jones, Jones, Watson, Finan

Partick Thistle FC football team 1934-1935. Back row: Calderwood (Captain), Cummings, Johnstone, Elliot, Sutherland, M Leod. Front row: Regan, M Kennan, Wylie, Hastie, M Lennan. Date: 1934-1935

Eugene Ysaye - Belgian Violinist
Eugene Ysaye (1858-1931) - Belgian Violinist Date: circa 1903

Eugene Ysaye - Jewish Violinist
Splendid portrait of Eugene Ysaye - Belgian Jewish Violinist (1858-1931). Date: circa 1906

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Babar, the King of the Elephants, and Celeste engage in a friendly game of tennis at Celesteville. This charming illustration from one of Jean de Brunhoff's Babar books takes us back to the 1930s, capturing the joy and camaraderie found in sports. In another iconic moment, Sandy Amoros of the Brooklyn Dodgers showcases his incredible athleticism during the 1955 World Series. As he catches a deep fly ball hit by Yogi Berra of the New York Yankees, Amoros secures victory for his team in this thrilling seventh and deciding game at Yankee Stadium. The year is 1966, and all eyes are on England as they host a soccer match that would go down in history. The intensity on the field is palpable as players give their all to secure victory for their respective teams. Jackie Robinson, an American baseball legend known for breaking barriers with his talent and courage, steals home under catcher Andy Seminick's tag during a game against the Philadelphia Phillies in 1950. This daring move exemplifies Robinson's determination to succeed despite facing adversity. Anfield comes alive as Liverpool faces off against Tottenham Hotspur in an English League Division One match. The passion and skill displayed by both teams make this encounter one to remember. Traveling back to 1936, we find ourselves amidst Dulwich Hamlet FC football team. These dedicated athletes showcase their love for the sport while representing their club with pride. From book covers to real-life action: Play the Game Football book cover captures our imagination with its depiction of players engaged in intense competition on the pitch. Satchel Paige stands tall as an American baseball player who defied expectations throughout his career. His remarkable skills left audiences awestruck as he dominated games with finesse and power. Alex Higgins graces our list as a legendary snooker player whose precision shots captivated fans worldwide. His talent and charisma made him a true icon of the sport.