1895: The earliest images known in the history of Venezuelan baseball

On August 15th, 1895, Mariano Domingo Becerra makes a contribution for the magazine El Cojo Ilustrado in Caracas, Venezuela. He wanted to publicize the recent foundation of the Caracas club that was practicing a game, that even though had been played since 1892 in Venezuela, it was about to take new life in the country: the game of base ball.

El Cojo Ilustrado was a literary magazine published twice a month, and was a modernist icon in Latin America. Baseball could not be ignored in it, since it was a trend that the game was covered in publications devoted to literature and poetry during the 19th century, as was the case in Cuba.

This magazine prints in August, 1895, the earliest images known in the history of Venezuelan baseball which are of a notorious technical quality. El Cojo Ilustrado had a legendary team of photographers who were likely sent in assignment to register the action of the game.