The 1910s

53 clippings from the 1910s.

Column article headed Mayor Addresses the Fans, Says Success of Baseball Team Rests With the People, printing the full text of Mayor Meyer's speech opening the 1910 baseball season for Mankato, ending mid-sentence where the bottom of the page is cut off.

Nowhere under God's blue canopy do the people love their game as we do our baseball

Mankato Free Press
Mankato, Minnesota · 1910

Large studio portrait of Andrew Rube Foster seated in a bowler hat, dark suit and bow tie, one hand resting on a chair arm. The caption reads Andrew Rube Foster, Manager and Captain of the World's Colored Champions, the Leland Giants.

Andrew Rube Foster

Leland Giants
Chicago, Illinois · 1910

Five newspaper photographs of Leland Giants players stacked in a column. John H. Loyd standing in a Lelands uniform, captioned Leland Giants' Star Second Baseman. Bruce Pettway standing with catcher's mitts in both hands, captioned The Peer of All Catchers. J. P. Hill posed batting, captioned Leland Giants' Center Fielder, considered the equal, if not the superior, of any man playing baseball. Andrew Payne standing with a glove, captioned The Wonder of the Outfield. James Booker stretched low to scoop a ball, captioned Star Catcher, Now Playing First Base for the Leland Giants, he is a star in any position.

First Annual Base Ball and Sporting Number

Leland Giants
Chicago, Illinois · 1910

Bordered ad for The Sporting News reading The Base Ball Paper of the World, Base Ball Exclusively, No Cheap Side Lines, offering a free 1910 Sporting News Record Book for a two cent stamp and a free sample mailed on request, from Charles C. Spink and Son, St. Louis, Mo.

Base Ball Exclusively. No Cheap Side Lines

The Holt County Sentinel
Oregon, Missouri · 1910

Story headed Hoosiers Coming to Play Bronchos, reporting that the Indianapolis team will be in San Antonio for games next Monday and Tuesday, that the Indians have been walloping all teams they have thus far faced and seem to be some ball team, and that the Bronchos are rounding to in pretty good shape.

Hoosiers Coming to Play Bronchos

San Antonio Bronchos
San Antonio, Texas · 1910

Large advertisement for Spalding's Athletic Library, Base Ball Series, listing ten-cent instruction books: Spalding's Official Base Ball Guide, How to Play Base Ball, How to Bat, How to Run Bases, How to Pitch, How to Catch, How to Play First Base and every other position, How to Organize a Base Ball League, How to Umpire a Game, Technical Base Ball Terms and a Ready Reckoner of Base Ball Percentages. Below, a large Spalding Official National League ball on its box, called the Official Ball of the Game for over Thirty Years, with the A. G. Spalding and Bros. store list and a dark script banner reading Boys, send your name and address to any of the above Spalding stores and get a new Athletic Goods catalogue free.

Spalding's Athletic Library

A. G. Spalding & Bros.
San Mateo, Florida · 1910

Story headed Victoria Has Fastest Team In S.W. League, quoting a local fan on Jack Burke's Rosebuds playing classy ball with team work that is a revelation, and the Houston Post declaring Victoria has everything else in the league outclassed because they have mastered the supreme art of team-work, mentioning managers Trapper Longley and Piggy Page.

Victoria Has Fastest Team in S.W. League

Victoria Rosebuds
Victoria, Texas · 1910

Large ad bordered in printer's dots reading Oregon Will Celebrate July 4, 1910, with an eagle over a shield and banners reading 1776, 134th Anniversary, 1910. Below: You Are Invited! Good speaking, enjoyable amusements, delightful music all of the time, plenty of water and shade, a sane Fourth every way. 2 Ball Games 2, 10 a.m. and 4 p.m., two of the strongest teams in Northwest Mo.

A Sane Fourth Every Way

The Holt County Sentinel
Oregon, Missouri · 1910

Tall advertisement headed Base Ball Shoes, announcing a full assortment of Sporting Shoes added this season to the summer stock, in all sizes, urging anyone inclined to partake in any sport who wants to be properly shod to see us, Base Ball Shoes $2.50, Levi and Co., corner Center, Seneca and Sycamore Streets, Oil City, Pa.

Base Ball Shoes, $2.50

The Forest Republican
Oil City, Pennsylvania · 1911

Brief news item headed Ball Player Suspended, reporting from Philadelphia that Sherwood Magee, star outfielder of the Philadelphia National League baseball club, who Monday assaulted and severely injured John Finneran while the latter was umpiring the game with St. Louis, was today indefinitely suspended.

Ball Player Suspended

The Pensacola Journal
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · 1911

Story headed Brent Gets To Top As The Chick Premier Hitter, reporting the Chicks are still at the bottom of the Tri-State League but won three of six games, with a full batting and fielding averages table by Alexander Abrahams showing Brent leading at .339 with Fritz at .325 and Weeks at .304.

Brent Gets to Top as the Chick Premier Hitter

Wilmington Chicks
Wilmington, Delaware · 1911

Seven-panel comic strip titled Reddy the Rooter, He Sure Is a Noble Fourth. Reddy the office boy schemes to get to the ball game, a coworker urges him to tell the boss he is sick, Reddy instead asks the boss straight for a holiday, and the boss, a good noble youth himself, tells him to take a holiday today and enjoy himself. The last panel shows the boss at the game shouting He bit on two live ones, now send over a cripple.

Reddy the Rooter; He Sure Is a "Noble Fourth"

The Evening Journal
Wilmington, Delaware · 1911

Large 1912 newspaper advertisement for Morton C. Stout and Co., the National Tailors, headed We Are Making Them Now for $12.50, with a drawing of a batter finishing his swing, copy about suitings worth $18 to $20, and a boxed offer of a $25 suit of clothes free to the first Washington ball player to make a home run in a championship game on the home grounds.

A $25 Suit of Clothes Free to the First Washington Ball Player to Make a Home Run

The Washington Herald
Washington, D.C. · 1912

Sports column headed Helps Fair Fans, with subheads Baseball Management Gives Them Five Free Days, Admitted Free at Gate Except on Few Occasions, Moving Pictures of Game Will Be Taken Friday, Women Should Wear White, and Baseball Dope and Comment From O'Neill's Circuit. The column urges ladies to put on white dresses and go to the ball game Friday, where the Victor film company will take moving pictures of the first two innings, then announces that on every day except Saturday, Sunday and holidays women will be admitted free at the gate, an innovation in Western league baseball, ending with a note that President Arch Catlin will send out the free tickets promised for the school children.

Helps Fair Fans

Topeka Kaws
Topeka, Kansas · 1912

Cartoon panel headed How Great Men Play the Game, By Scar, showing George Gibson, catcher, Pittsburgh Pirates, in full catching gear stepping over the plate to peg to second, receiving with a pitcher whipping the ball in close, and an inset of young pitchers keeping their eyes on him around first base.

How Great Men Play the Game: George Gibson

El Paso Herald
El Paso, Texas · 1913

Cartoon panel headed How Great Men Play the Game, By Scar, showing Chief Bender of the Philadelphia Athletics finishing a free easy delivery, a batter laughing at a curve, Bender swinging a golf-style cut at a pitch, and an inset of him hopping mad at an umpire's bad decision.

How Great Men Play the Game: Chief Bender

El Paso Herald
El Paso, Texas · 1913

Cartoon panel headed How Great Men Play the Game, By Scar, showing Tris Speaker, center field, Boston Red Sox, choking the bat in his two-base-hit swing, diving to cover the outer garden, stealing a base with his eyes on the ball, and an inset of him swinging several bats at once as he goes up to hit.

How Great Men Play the Game: Tris Speaker

El Paso Herald
El Paso, Texas · 1913

Newspaper feature headed Bob Messenger Is Leading Base Thief, Baron Speed Merchant Tops Base Stealers of League, Dave Robertson Follows Closely, Messenger Does Well After Late Start, reporting that the Alabama cyclone has annexed 47 bases in 84 games to Robertson's 41, that at his present pace he will outclass Jimmy Johnston's record of 81 burglaries on the cushions, and printing a table of the ten leading base runners of the Southern league headed by Messenger of Birmingham at .536.

Bob Messenger Is Leading Base Thief

The Birmingham Age-Herald
Birmingham, Alabama · 1913

Cartoon panel headed How Great Men Play the Game, By Scar, showing Frank Baker, third base, Philadelphia Athletics, mid-swing with an exceptional stride, throwing from any angle on a deep play back of third, scooping a slow bunt at top speed, and an inset of him rounding the bases toward a house marked home, noting he never misses a chance on a week end to make a real one.

How Great Men Play the Game: Frank Baker

El Paso Herald
El Paso, Texas · 1913

Cartoon panel headed How Great Men Play the Game, By Scar, showing Ed Walsh, star pitcher of the Chicago White Sox, delivering his famous spit-ball overhand, spreading his legs in an enormous stride, a large close-up of his fist gripping the ball with thumb, third and fourth fingers, and an inset close-up of his pretty little cupid bow mouth.

How Great Men Play the Game: Ed Walsh

El Paso Herald
El Paso, Texas · 1913

Cartoon panel headed How Great Men Play the Game, By Scar, showing Stuffy McInnes, first base, Philadelphia Athletics, stretching to take a throw on a dead run, holding his bat at arm's length, twisting his body to throw to second, and an inset noting he is the smallest first baseman in the major leagues.

How Great Men Play the Game: Stuffy McInnes

El Paso Herald
El Paso, Texas · 1913

Game story headed Allowed 3 Hits, with subheads Doc Reynolds Gave Wichita Team Coat of Whitewash, Did Not Allow Safe Drive Until Eighth Inning, Given Faultless Support, Lanky Pitcher's Safe Hit Scored First Run, and Forsythe Got Three Safe Hits in Four Times at Bat. The story says the short grass of Kansas is famous for its grasshoppers and Doc Reynolds made it more famous with the hopper on the delivery he dished up to Wichita, holding the visitors to three hits while the Kaws piled up five runs. Full Wichita and Topeka box scores follow, ending Umpire Segrist, time 1:35.

Allowed 3 Hits

Topeka Kaws
Topeka, Kansas · 1913

Wide boxed advertisement reading Base Ball, Topeka vs. Wichita, Tuesday and Wednesday, July 22 and 23, games at 3:30 o'clock.

Base Ball: Topeka vs. Wichita

Topeka Kaws
Topeka, Kansas · 1913

Tall advertisement headed BASEBALL announcing the American Giants of Chicago, Rube Foster's great aggregation of Negro ball players, champions of the world, vs. all star teams of the Capital City League at Athletic Park September 15, 16 and 17, admission 25 cents, beside a Sporting News column previewing the series.

The greatest Negro ball team in the world

Chicago American Giants
Nashville, Tennessee · 1913

Cartoon panel headed How Great Men Play the Game, By Scar, showing Eddie Collins of the Philadelphia Athletics crouched on his toes with arms swinging wide, holding the bat with arms almost straight, sprinting at full speed, and an inset close-up of his eagle eyes trying to get a line on the enemy's signals.

How Great Men Play the Game: Eddie Collins

El Paso Herald
El Paso, Texas · 1913

Cartoon panel headed How Great Men Play the Game, By Scar, showing Christy Mathewson, star pitcher of the N.Y. Giants, warming up in a careless gate-swinging attitude, throwing his full body weight into a fast ball, posing in his famous I.C.U. pose with hands behind his head, a large drawing of his fade-away grip, and an inset close-up of his jaw working gum when the bases are full.

How Great Men Play the Game: Christy Mathewson

El Paso Herald
El Paso, Texas · 1913

Cartoon panel headed How Great Men Play the Game, By Scar, showing Honus Wagner, shortstop of the Pittsburgh Nationals, spread wide in his batting stance, sliding with his feet high in the air, fielding a deep play bare-handed, gripping a bat any old place, and an inset of the big German going down the base lines at a comical angle.

How Great Men Play the Game: Honus Wagner

El Paso Herald
El Paso, Texas · 1913

Story headed Giants and White Sox Will Play Three Games In El Paso, reporting the chamber of commerce gave a big guarantee for the series as a feature of the Os-Aple Jubilee, that for three days the city will be the center of the universe for baseball fans of the southwest, and that the teams leave the east after the world's series and arrive probably November 4 for the opening game.

Fans of the Southwest Will See the Giants and White Sox In El Paso

El Paso Herald
El Paso, Texas · 1913

Cartoon headed Men Who Will Fight For the World's Championship, Eddie Plank, the Athletics' Lanky Southpaw, by Sloane Gordon. A large portrait of Plank in cap is surrounded by vignettes: two old farmers saying we surely missed ye Ed and chiding him for playing baseball all summer instead of tending the reunion, a note that Mr. Plank winters on his farm at Gettysburg Pa., Plank driving an automobile with the caption Plank is a bachelor and a most enthusiastic automobilist, a cupid firing heart arrows, a batter hopping and yelling git offer me toe you're on me feet, and a scroll reading Edward S. Plank and his famous cross-fire have sent several capable first basemen of the Athletics to the chiropodists.

"Eddie" Plank, the Athletics' Lanky Southpaw

El Paso Herald
El Paso, Texas · 1913

Cartoon panel headed How Great Men Play the Game, By Scar, showing Joe Jackson, right field, Cleveland Am., mid-swing with his wide stride, making a running-in throw, rebounding off the bag while rounding the bases, and an inset asking did you ever notice how much Cobb and Jackson look alike as well as bat alike.

How Great Men Play the Game: Joe Jackson

El Paso Herald
El Paso, Texas · 1913

Cartoon panel titled How Great Men Play the Game, by Scar, on Jimmy Archer, catcher, Chicago Cubs. A large portrait is surrounded by vignettes: Archer crouched close behind the batter, his famous squat throw which he invented, catching a runner napping off first or third without changing his position behind the bat, a diagram of the system of signals with Evers, hitting pitchers' bad ones to all corners of the lot, and an inset of his perpetual never-ceasing everlasting good-natured smile.

How Great Men Play the Game: Jimmy Archer

El Paso Herald
El Paso, Texas · 1913

Cartoon headed Men Who Will Fight For the World's Championship, Charles M. Tesreau, the Biggest Pitcher In the World, by Sloane Gordon, showing a giant-headed Tesreau mid-delivery with a dripping ball, a boy called the Ozark bear hunter staring at a circus bear cage, and a man riding a small automobile, with the note that Tesreau depends upon moisture for his pitching success.

Charles M. Tesreau, the Biggest Pitcher in the World

El Paso Herald
El Paso, Texas · 1913

Cartoon panel headed How Great Men Play the Game, By Scar, showing Jake Daubert, first base, Brooklyn Nationals, leaping to pull down a wild throw bare-handed, calling shortstop's ball as field captain, leaning forward in his swing, and an inset of him scooping a low ball with the note and did you ever notice how easy he picks 'em up.

How Great Men Play the Game: Jake Daubert

El Paso Herald
El Paso, Texas · 1913

Story headed Silver City Wins From El Paso, Poor Exhibition Of Ball Saturday, recounting a 9 to 5 loss at Washington park in which the score board boy deducted a run just to make the game more interesting, Harley stole home as Ducky Gowan walked, and Harley Kiefer made a grandstand catch that brought a hurry call for the water bucket.

Poor Exhibition of Ball Saturday

El Paso Mavericks
El Paso, Texas · 1913

Boxed ad reading Base Ball, El Paso vs. Hurley, July 4th 5th 6th, Great Base Ball Field Day 4th July, program begins 2 p.m., ball game will commence 3:30 p.m., greatest event ever attempted in the Southwest, no extra charge for admission, excursion rates on all railroads, Ladies' Day Saturday, children under 12 years old free, all games.

El Paso vs. Hurley, July 4th 5th 6th

El Paso Herald
El Paso, Texas · 1913

Cartoon panel headed How Great Men Play the Game, By Scar, showing Joe Wood, pitcher of the World's Champions, in several poses: hands behind his head to deceive the batter, always throwing the ball to practice his control, delivering his wonderful slow ball straight overhand, and a close-up of his remarkably clean shoes.

How Great Men Play the Game: Joe Wood

El Paso Herald
El Paso, Texas · 1913

Advertisement headed Guaranteed Base Ball Supplies reading: Our Base Ball Goods are used and endorsed by the leading Professional and Amateur players. See our new line of Uniforms before deciding. Write or call for catalogue. Charles C. Carr Company. Factory, 30-36 E. Georgia St., Indianapolis. Salesroom, 38 S. Penna. St.

Guaranteed base ball supplies

The Freeman
Indianapolis, Indiana · 1914

Column item headed The Nashville All Stars, Said To Be Fastest Bunch in South: a letter to the editor of The Freeman challenging all baseball clubs willing to give a fair guarantee, describing a club composed of the cream of the Capitol City League, every man a born athlete, signed Nashville All Stars, Thomas R. Bryant, Pres. and Sec.

Said to be fastest bunch in South

Nashville All Stars
Nashville, Tennessee · 1914

News item reporting that David Slesnick and Donald Grove, two Oil City base ball stars who have made good records with local teams, have gone to Wellsville, New York, expecting to play with the team of that place, a member of the Interstate league, Grove for a tryout for a pitching position and Slesnick to sign up as catcher, credited to the Derrick, with the Forest Republican adding that Donald is a Tionesta production and so it goes without saying that he will make good.

Two Oil City base ball stars extend the scope of their operations

The Forest Republican
Tionesta, Pennsylvania · 1914

Story by C. Green headed Locals Take First Place In Florida League, reporting Lakeland swept a Labor Day doubleheader from Fort Meade before six hundred fans, with full box scores of both games: a 6 to 5 first game and an 8 to 0 second game shutout by Hall, plus complete summaries down to umpire Moore and attendance 600.

Locals Take First Place In Florida League

The Evening Telegram
Lakeland, Florida · 1914

Two-column story headed Rules Must Be Obeyed, Changes Are Beneficial, with the subhead Coaches Will Be Barred From Stopping Runners Who Are Not Watching the Progress of the Ball, reporting 1914 rule changes: coaches may no longer physically stop base runners, a runner takes two bases if a player stops a thrown ball with his uniform or a thrown glove, the pitcher may now stand on the slab, and the leagues traded interpretations of the infield fly and balk rules.

Rules Must Be Obeyed; Changes Are Beneficial

Harrisburg Telegraph
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania · 1914

Full-column game story headlined Faircloth Loses Pitchers' Battle, recounting a twelve-inning 2 to 1 game between Clinton and Keokuk, with the complete box score.

Both pitchers were tight wads when it came to a pinch

The Daily Gate City
Clinton, Iowa · 1914

Newspaper column headed Do Fans Want Baseball Team, This Question for Mitchell Supporters of National Game Is Up for Consideration, asking whether Mitchell will have a team this season ahead of a game against Letcher at the college field, noting practically every city and town in South Dakota has a team in the field, that Sioux Falls and Huron pay salaries, recalling that fifteen years ago Mitchell was decidedly on the baseball map with old fans and players like J. E. Wells, William Scallin and Dr. Ray Smith, calling those teams one of the best advertising mediums Mitchell probably ever had, and reporting a 1 to 0 win over Letcher last Sunday.

Do Fans Want Baseball Team

The Mitchell Capital
Mitchell, South Dakota · 1915

Two letters to the editor under the heading In the Fan's Forum. The first, from T. D. Humphrey, argues point by point that Kansas is the leading prohibition state in the Union, Topeka is the capital and headquarters of the State Temperance union, and that an appropriate name for the ball team would be The Prohibs. The second, from W. A. McCauley of Auburn, Kansas, says the Kaws is hard to beat as a name but suggests Kaw Chiefs.

Why "The Prohibs" Would Be Appropriate Name for Ball Team

Topeka Kaws
Topeka, Kansas · 1915

Photo feature with two headlines, Batteries For Today Are Says Umpire and Who's the Catcher Asks the Crowd, showing catchers Burns and Cady posed over a packed Boston ballpark, with a paragraph on the world's series catchers.

Batteries for today are, announces the umpire

Evening Times-Republican
Marshalltown, Iowa · 1915

Short front page item headlined Wilson and Fiancee See Ball Game, reporting the president and Mrs. Norman Galt leaving for the world's series in Philadelphia, her new diamond ring and the president's hat blowing down Riverside Drive.

The hat took a journey of several hundred feet before being overtaken

Evening Times-Republican
Marshalltown, Iowa · 1915

Hardware store advertisement headlined Play Ball, with drawings of a batter, a tennis racket and a boy holding an Official League ball, offering the D. and M. and A. G. Spaulding lines of sporting goods.

Play ball! Attractive prices to clubs buying in quantities

Tulsa Daily World
Tulsa, Oklahoma · 1915

Boxed advertisement reading Base Ball Sunday, St. Paul American League vs Tulsa Producers, game called 3:00 p.m., admission 25 cents.

Base Ball Sunday. The Producers at 3 o'clock, bring a quarter

Tulsa Producers
Tulsa, Oklahoma · 1915

Newspaper photograph of Miss Florence Dominguez wearing a catcher's mask and holding a catcher's mitt, framed in an ornate border, captioned as the Native Sons queen candidate for 1915.

The queen candidate is an accomplished backstop

Tulsa Daily World
Tulsa, Oklahoma · 1915

Multi-panel newspaper cartoon by W. R. Allman showing highlights of a chaotic 1911 game: a flooded outfield, a fielder landing in a puddle, Harry Lord diving into the bench, Schaefer stealing first from second and Washington protesting the game.

Schaefer stole second and then went back and stole first

Tulsa Daily World
Tulsa, Oklahoma · 1915

Advertisement headed Tennis Rackets and Balls, a new line just received, with decorative scroll ornaments. The copy reads: The best Spalding goods and that is the best in the market. Also a full line of all kinds of Spalding Base Ball and Sporting Goods. Prices still reasonable. N. N. McLean, The Old Reliable, established January 1895, flanked by the words Druggist and Jeweler, with the slogan The Buy Right and Sell Right Store.

Tennis Rackets and Balls

N. N. McLean
Lamar, Colorado · 1917

Short news item in which the West Side Base Ball Association hereby challenges the East Side Farmers Union Base Ball Association, commonly known as The Di Dappers, to play a game of base ball one day next week under Marquis of Queensbury rules, complaining that the umpire beat them out of the last game by tipping their signals off to the opponents, and boasting that with an even break of luck they can make the East Side look like the Hope S. S. League, ivory and all.

Under Marquis of Queensbury Rules

The Prescott Daily News
Prescott, Arkansas · 1917

Full-column story headlined Umpire's Job Is No Parlor Game, describing the umpire's nomadic life, his ban from fraternizing with players and the crowds that call for his gore.

Thousands of otherwise normal human beings will plead for his gore

Tulsa Daily World
Tulsa, Oklahoma · 1917