Baseball Players To Invade Ireland

What a better way to celebrate St. Patrick's Day than to look back at some early clippings about baseball and Ireland?

Boston Journal - January 11, 1911

A few years ago I used the following wire story.  This one has a bit more info.

Baltimore American - November 5, 1917

And an attempt at humor.

The Times-Picayune - August 4, 1922

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Baseball in Dublin

El Paso Herald - November 8, 1918

Now, if we were to take this single news article at face value, we would have something to celebrate.  But "the first international baseball game that Dublin has seen"?  I don't know.

A year before that a game was scheduled to be played in that same city.

The Democratic Banner - October 30, 1917

I haven't discovered if that came was just arranged or it was actually played.  Interestingly enough the following Mark Twain quote was on the same newspaper page.

The Democratic Banner - October 30, 1917

Cramps' Athletic Association Baseball Team

Evening Public Ledger - June 2, 1917

Stetson Baseball Team

Evening Public Ledger - June 2, 1917

2 in 1 Shoe Polish ad

The Bemidji Daily Pioneer - April 6, 1917

Mr. and Mrs. John Donaldson

Much research has been and is being done on John Wesley Donaldson, arguably the best pitcher that played the game of baseball.  The John Donaldson Network issued their first newsletter of the new year.  That caused me to take a poke around my recent haunt, the Library of Congress's Chronicling America.

The Kansas City Sun - October 20, 1917

The Kansas City Sun used this photo of Donaldson several times over the next few years, at least until October of 1920.

The Kansas City Sun - November 10, 1917

The Kansas City Sun - November 10, 1917

Miss Eleanor Watson was the daughter of Arthur and Charlotte Watson, of North Carolina.  According to the 1910 US Census Arthur was a gardener for a truck garden.  Ella, as she is listed in the census records, was a servant that did housework.

Ancestry.com. Missouri Marriage Records, 1805-2002 [database on-line].
Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2007.

Ancestry.com. Missouri Marriage Records, 1805-2002 [database on-line].
Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2007.