When inanimate objects played baseball

What if inanimate objects played baseball?

The Vaudeville News - July 14, 1922

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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Girls Plan Baseball League

Richmond Times-Dispatch - March 18, 1922

Baseball in Australia

The 2014 Major League Baseball season has already started.  In Australia the Dodgers faced and were victorious over the Diamondbacks.  But our national game has visited there before.  John Thorn wrote a great piece at his Our Game blog in 2013 called Australian Baseball: A Brief History.  I'll add three newspaper articles from 1910, 1916, and 1922.

Grand Forks Daily Herald - March 1, 1910

Kalamazoo Gazette - October 12, 1916

Idaho Statesman - September 16, 1922

Change in Toggery

The Washington Herald - February 26, 1916

Maybe Griffith went to Matson's for the new uniforms.  They do fit grown-up teams.  Probably not, as the ad is from six years later and in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

The Evening Herald - March 29, 1922

Mexican Fans

The Watchman and Southron - December 27, 1922

Headin' Home

This week Rob Edelman filled in for John Thorn at the Our Game blog. Rob is a film historian and he provides two wonderful posts about early baseball films.  One of them, Headin' Home, has Babe Ruth in the featured role.  Rob talks about the film in the second post, Lost (and Found) Baseball, Part 2.  Go read about it now.  This entry will wait.

I decided it would be fun to see what the newspapers were saying about it.  The articles and ads span about a year and a half and go from New York to Hawaii.  From one of The Bemidji Daily Pioneer ads we see that it is indeed a six reel film.

I also find it interesting that the press marketed it towards youth (Baseball Bats Given Away at Each Matinee) and the ladies (With the speed of Douglas Fairbanks...).

I present my findings from the Library of Congress's Chronicling America site in chronological order.

New York Tribune - September 16, 1920

New York Tribune - September 16, 1920

The Evening World - September 17, 1920

New York Tribune - September 19, 1920

 

New York Tribune - September 20, 1920

Evening Public Ledger - April 18, 1921

The Washington Times - May 9, 1921

The Bemidji Daily Pioneer - August 22, 1921

The Bemidji Daily Pioneer - August 23, 1921

The Bemidji Daily Pioneer - August 24, 1921

The Bemidji Daily Pioneer - August 26, 1921

The Leavenworth Echo - December 9, 1921

The Evening Herald - February 5, 1922

The Garden Island - April 25, 1922

Some might wonder why I included two ads from the New York Tribune.  Variation.  Look close.  Those are two different drawings.

Chocolate Coated Ice Cream Baseballs

The Evening World - October 5, 1922

The Evening World - October 10, 1922

1921 Chatham Baseball Team

The Chatham Courier - 1922