Cupid in Foul Ball

The Washington Times - July 4, 1913

Independence Day Baseball

The Washington Times - July 5, 1913

The Washington Times - July 5, 1913

The Elephant Baseball Team

You might think that I'm referring to the Athletics. I'm not. These are honest to goodness pachyderms.

New-York Daily Tribune - March 24, 1912

The Washington Times - May 6, 1912

El Paso Herald - September 2, 1918

1918 Fort Myer Quartermaster Team

The Washington Times - June 11, 1918

Naval musician killed while playing baseball

According to ancestry.com George Dewey Sinks was born on March 29, 1898.  He died not quite 20 years later as part of the Navy.   I have found nothing else to tell the rest of the story.

New York Tribune - March 14, 1918

The Washington Times - March 13, 1918

The Washington Herald - March 14, 1918

Chained to the Plate

The San Francisco Call - March 11, 1913

The Washington Times - March 13, 1913

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.

Labor Day Baseball

The Washington Times - August 31, 1902

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

Censusites vs. Cuban Giants

The Colored American - October 5, 1901

The Colored American - October 5, 1901

The Washington Times - October 19, 1901

Gurley Memorial Team of the Sunday School Athletic League

The Washington Times - May 1, 1905

The Washington Times - May 3, 1905