Moving Pictures of Our National Pastime—The Outfielder

This twelve-panel Sunday strip by Clare Briggs uses sequential illustration to break down the outfielder's fielding movements into discrete, repeating actions: positioning, tracking the ball, making the catch, and celebrating. Each panel is labeled with baseball terminology ("Gets His Mitt," "A Snake," "Star Catch"). The strip demonstrates the visual vocabulary that newspaper comics pioneered—discrete panels showing temporal progression, minimal text paired with gesture-driven comedy. Briggs was among the first cartoonists to exploit the Sunday page's generous format for multi-panel narrative, establishing conventions that would define the medium for decades.