Luminous Baseballs

Hawaiian Gazette - July 22, 1885

The Daily Bulletin - August 6, 1885

images from Chronicling America

Green River

This is from a Chattanooga newspaper, probably in 1904.  I was taken by the two young ball players
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image from the Chattanooga Public Library

1914 American Giants in Seattle

The Tacoma Times - April 6, 1914

Longest Catcher On Coast Is Six Feet Of Comedy

The Tacoma Times - April 6, 1914

Watch Flagstaff on the Dome

The Evening World - April 29, 1905

A Militant Umpire

Sporting Life - March 25, 1911

You too can increase Vim and Energy...quickly!

Plattsburgh Daily Press - July 10, 1934

Baseball Nuggets does not endorse tobacco use of any kind.

Bat and Ball

Los Angeles Herald - August 1, 1898

This article originally spanned two columns.  I combined them for ease of viewing.  I don't think that the "Bug" Holliday paragraph has anything to do with the Trilbys and Bakersfield game, but it was too good to leave out.

1934 Chappy Johnson All-Stars

Plattsburgh Daily Press - July 10, 1934

Plattsburgh Daily Press - July 11, 1934

1934 Zulu Cannibal Giants

Plattsburgh Daily Press - July 9, 1934

Plattsburgh Daily Press - July 10, 1934

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.

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.

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.

The Washington Times - July 16, 1912

The Tacoma Times - June 17, 1912

The San Francisco Call - June 17, 1912

The Tacoma Times - June 19, 1912