Base Ball on the Brain

Easton Gazette - September 28, 1867

A 60 Game season for 1965?

Register-Republic (Rockford, Illinois) - April 22, 1964

There were 20 MLB teams in 1965.  A 60 game schedule as ABC suggests would be 600 games.  Today we have 30 teams and 162 games.  That would be 2,430 games.  I think that the sport has adapted itself well enough to network video by expansion.

The missing line in the first paragraph of the third column is:

ence) eliminations to establish

It sounds like ABC was pushing for what some now want the BCS to turn into.

Clearly, ABC wants to mold things for their ease.  The last paragraph says it all.

It is ABC-TV's feeling that "an activity (television) that serves the average family 45 hours a week deserves to help shape the pattern instead of using the established methods that were formed before the development of television."

image from GenealogyBank.com

Barons Win at Opening of Rickwood Park

Charleston News and Courier - August 19, 1910

Ladies' Baseball in Corbin

The Mountain Advocate - May 10, 1912

Opening Day in the K.I.T. League

Hopkinsville Kentuckian - May 13, 1913

The K.I.T. League, or Kenkucky-Illinois-Tennessee League, also known as the Kitty League, was a Class D grouping of teams consisting of:

• Cairo (IL) Egyptians
• Clarksville (TN) Boosters
• Harrisburg (KY) Coal Miners
• Henderson (KY) Hens
• Hopkinsville (KY) Hoppers
• Owensboro (KY) Distillers
• Paducah (KY) Chiefs
• Vincennes (IN) Alices

Don't quite know how the Alices slipped into the league, what, with them being Hoosiers and all.  Paducah was crowned as the Champions in that year.

Dean Is Quitter In Charity Game

The Spokesman-Review - October 19, 1935

My Cinderella Girl

I plugged the terms "baseball" and "musical" into the search engine and up popped My Cinderella Girl, a musical baseball farce. The Library of Congress has the musical score, but I haven't found any instance of actual recording of the songs. Here are a few articles and images about and of the musical.

The Daily Times - October 3, 1911

The Spartanburg Herald - February 19, 1911

The McCook Tribune - October 13, 1910

Chicago Public Library

Dubuque Telegraph-Herald - October 26, 1910

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UPDATE - April 21, 2014
Scott Simkus has a nice post at John Thorn's blog Our Game.  It focuses on Mike Donlin and a bit of his wife, Mabel Hite and features a much more clear image of the "Play Ball" scene.