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Charles Babcock

Charles Merritt Babcock, ca. 1915. Photograph by Brush Studios, Minneapolis. Photographs Collection (1995.017.008), Sherburne County Historical Society, Becker, Minnesota. Used with the permission of the Sherburne County Historical Society.

Charles Babcock

Charles Merritt Babcock, Elk River, 1924. Photograph by Lee Bros., Minneapolis.

Charles Babcock

Charles Merritt Babcock, 1930.

Charles Babcock

Charles Merritt Babcock, 1940.Painting by Carl Wendell Rawson.

Charles Bender, 1903

Charles Bender at he beginning of his career, 1903.

Charles Bender, 1911.

Charles Bender baseball card printed by the American Tobacco Company, 1911.

Charles Bender, c.1910

Charles Bender wearing Philadelphia Athletics uniform, c.1910. Original press photograph from the George Grantham Bain Collection.

Black and white photograph of Charles Bender, 1911.

Charles Bender, Philadelphia Athletics pitcher

Charles Bender during the prime of his baseball career, 1911. Photograph by Paul Thompson. Bender, who is credited with inventing the slider (a type of breaking-ball pitch), was born on the White Earth Reservation of Ojibwe. He pitched in and won six World Series games—a first in the sport.