San Antonio Bronchos · San Antonio, Texas · 1910

Hoosiers Coming to Play Bronchos

March 1910: Indianapolis comes barnstorming through Texas and San Antonio takes its measure in one line. The Indians have been walloping all teams they have thus far faced and seem to be some ball team.

Spring 1910, and the Indianapolis Indians of the American Association are working their way through Texas, playing the Texas League circuit town by town on the way to the season. The San Antonio Light and Gazette sizes up the visitors with admirable economy: “The Indians have been walloping all teams they have thus far faced in this section and seem to be some ball team.”

“Some ball team” is the whole scouting report, and honestly it covers everything. This was a club that “finished fourth in the American league last season” by the paper’s accounting, though the Indians actually played in the American Association, the story naming both in the space of five sentences and trusting you to sort it out.

As for the home nine, “the Bronchos are rounding to in pretty good shape, they ought to be able to make it lively for the men from the Hoosier State.” Two games, Monday and Tuesday, a chance for San Antonio “to show their mettle against an American association team.” Making it lively is a modest ambition against a club that walloped everybody, but it is an honest one, and honest ambitions are what March is for.