The 1910s

33 clippings from the 1910s.

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

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 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

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

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