John Thorn, the Official Historian of MLB, shared a photo on facebook of a pin featuring The Yellow Kid holding a baseball bat. That sparked me to research what other baseball and The Yellow Kid connections there were. I found a few.
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| Tacoma Daily News - December 31, 1898 |
Apparently Hogan's Alley was popular enough to be spun into a theatre production.
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| Tacoma Daily News - December 31, 1898 |
A bit about the origin of "The Yellow Kid" from an article titled:
Something About the Comic Artists Who Draw the Funny Pictures in the Sunday Papers
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| Evansville Courier and Press - June 4, 1905 |
Several non professional teams around the nation used the nickname of The Yellow Kids.
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