Czar of Baseball Clears Pelicans in Scandal Case

Fellow SABR member Skip Nipper's amazing Sulphur Dell website shared the following "on this date" fact this morning...

August 27, 1925 - Kenesaw Mountain Landis, Commissioner of Baseball, announces that has has found no justification for penalties to Nashville Vols players Fred Eichrodt and Lute Roy for allegations of attempts to switch the two players to New Orleans for the remainder of the season to enhance the Pelicans chances to win the championship. 

However, the Commissioner states that Vols manager Jimmy Hamilton is "highly censurable for encouraging Ralph McGill, sports editor of the Nashville Banner, to publish the story". During the hearing in Chicago, Larry Gilbert, manager of the New Orleans club, was called to testify.

I wanted to know more about the story so I went off to GenealogyBank.

The Times-Picayune - August 28, 1925

20 Inning Game at Plattsburgh

Philip Lowry, a fellow SABR member, is tracking baseball games that go long. He's interested in matches that are 20 innings or more. I think that I found one for him.

The earliest that I can find mention of Plattsburgh Independents is 1908.  They played other local teams.  In 1923 that was members of the 26th Infantry, part of the US Army stationed at the Plattsburgh Barracks.

Three of the local papers mention the upcoming game.

Plattsburgh Daily Republican -  May 10, 1923

Plattsburgh Daily Press - May 10, 1923

Plattsburgh Sentinel - May 11, 1923

The game went twenty innings, with the Army boys winning.  Although two of the papers picked it up, I couldn't find any details about the game.

Plattsburgh Daily Republican -  May 14, 1923

Plattsburgh Sentinel - May 15, 1923

Apparently this game and the rivalry were not soon forgotten, as two years later it was still being reported.

Plattsburgh Sentinel -  July 3, 1925

Images were gathered from the Northern New York Library Network's collection of digital newspapers.

Bucky Harris's injured hand

This post is in response to another SABR email list question. SABR member Bob H shared this photo and asked:

Did Harris miss a few games with a hand injury late in the 1925 season, and manage from the bench?

Peck, Harris, Liebold, 9/24/25
from the Library of Congress

The Library of Congress newspaper site, Chronicling America, spans the years 1836-1922.  It wasn't going to be any help on this one.  So, I turned to one of my other favorite newspaper sites, Google News archives.

The Bend Bulletin - September 23, 1925

The Independent - September 23, 1925

These articles partly answer Bob H's question.  He did get injured, but they don't address how he managed.  More research to be done.

Japanese Team visits Burlington

Plattsburgh Daily Republican - June 9, 1925

Plattsburgh Daily Press - June 18, 1925

images from Northern New York Library Network