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| Seattle Daily Times - April 8, 1912 |
Showing posts with label 1912. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1912. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
Sunday, April 20, 2014
Easter Baseball
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| The Anaconda Standard - March 27, 1912 |
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| The Anaconda Standard - April 7, 1912 (Easter Sunday) |
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| The Anaconda Standard - April 12, 1912 |
Monday, November 4, 2013
The Yellow Kid and Baseball
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.
Apparently Hogan's Alley was popular enough to be spun into a theatre production.
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
Several non professional teams around the nation used the nickname of The Yellow Kids.
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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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| The Herald (New Orleans) - April 18, 1912 |
Friday, August 2, 2013
Baseball Team All Sons Of One Family
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| The Miami Herald - October 17, 1912 |
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| Source Citation: Year: 1910; Census Place: Madison, Orange, Virginia; Roll: T624_1640; Page: 17B; Enumeration District: 0089; FHL microfilm: 1375653.Source Information: Ancestry.com. 1910 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. |
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| The Tampa Morning Tribune - December 25, 1912 |
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| Wyoming State Tribune and Cheyenne State Leader - August 14, 1921 |
Newspaper images from Genealogy Bank.
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Saturday, March 23, 2013
The Elephant Baseball Team
You might think that I'm referring to the Athletics. I'm not. These are honest to goodness pachyderms.
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| New-York Daily Tribune - March 24, 1912 |
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| The Washington Times - May 6, 1912 |
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| El Paso Herald - September 2, 1918 |
Monday, December 24, 2012
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Monday, September 10, 2012
Saturday, August 4, 2012
Baseball in the Official Report of the 1912 Olympic Games
These images come from the book, The Fifth Olympiad: The Official Report of the Olympic Games of Stockholm 1912, published in 1913.
Thursday, August 2, 2012
1912 Olympic Games - Americans vs. Swedes
Staying on the Olympic theme, I found these pages in The Olympic Games, Stockholm 1912 edited by James E. Sullivan. An American team played a Swedish team on July 15, 1912.
The next day two teams composed of American athletes played an exhibition game.
The next day two teams composed of American athletes played an exhibition game.
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Exhibition Baseball at the 1912 Olympics
In 1912 the Olympic Games were held in Stockholm, Sweden. Here are some of the articles in the American press about the exhibition baseball games that were played. Note that the first two stories seem to have come from the same wire service, but were modified by the local editors. I find it culturally interesting that H.P. Drew, the sprinter from Springfield, Mass., was referred to as 'colored' by The Washington (D.C.) Times and as a 'negro' by The Tacoma Times.
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| The Washington Times - July 16, 1912 |
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| The Tacoma Times - June 17, 1912 |
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| The San Francisco Call - June 17, 1912 |
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| The Tacoma Times - June 19, 1912 |
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Friday, April 20, 2012
Fenway Park Opener - 1912
Today we celebrate 100 years of baseball at Fenway Park. Many people have been tweeting, talking, and blogging about it. Great history. I do take exception to Keith Olbermann's assertion that the team from New York that day wasn't the Highlanders.
Taking a look at the Library of Congress's wonderful Chronicling America site we find this gem...
Looks like the Highlanders to me. But, wanting to be fair and to see both sides of the issue, I looked at another New York newspaper...
I guess that each newspaper called the team by a different name. Sort of like the way that Fox News and MSNBC treat issues today.
I'll give Mr. Olbermann the Yankees moniker that day if he'll agree that they were also the Highlanders.
April 21 Update: Keith Olbermann has written a fine summary of the names of the American League team from New York.
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| The Sun - April 18, 1912 |
Looks like the Highlanders to me. But, wanting to be fair and to see both sides of the issue, I looked at another New York newspaper...
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| New-York Tribune - April 18, 1912 |
I'll give Mr. Olbermann the Yankees moniker that day if he'll agree that they were also the Highlanders.
April 21 Update: Keith Olbermann has written a fine summary of the names of the American League team from New York.
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
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