The 1930s

5 clippings from the 1930s.

Full page advertisement inside a dotted border announcing O'Neill's Big Free Day, September 18, 1934, guests of the O'Neill Business and Professional Men, entire program is free. The program lists a school children's parade, foot races, a football game, a water fight with barrel by the O'Neill Fire Department, kitten ball between the Town Team and the Country Club at 6:30, a concert, fireworks and a pavement dance. The centerpiece is a baseball game at 2:00 p.m., Redbird vs. the Junior American Legion team of Neligh, followed by a long prize list for race events and the triple banner Foot Ball, Base Ball, Kitten Ball.

O'Neill's Big Free Day

O'Neill Town Team
O'Neill, Nebraska · 1934

Photograph headed Fans Settle Burning Question, showing a cluster of shirtless men leaning over a balcony railing at Shibe Park in Philadelphia, caps on, shirts off, watching a ball game below. The caption explains that when Old Sol's rays became too uncomfortable for the balcony bugs at Shibe Park, they decided to discard their shirts, roll up their trouser legs, and get a sun tan while watching the game.

Fans Settle Burning Question

The Laredo Times
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · 1935

Photo feature headed Indoor Baseball On Big Scale showing Klepack, Brooklyn shortstop, out at first base in a National Professional Indoor Baseball League game in Bronx Coliseum, with Martin of the New York Giants taking the throw. Below runs Harry Grayson's NEA story Recreational Game Can't Be Sold At Price, Say Veterans, in which softball officials argue the new league forgot sex appeal because girls outdraw men, listing the famous names running each club and noting a planned indoor world series in March.

Indoor Baseball On Big Scale

The Laredo Times
New York, New York · 1939

Associated Press item headed Indoor Diamond League Inaugural Delayed, reporting Robert Blattner, secretary of the St. Louis Pandas of the newly organized National Professional Indoor Baseball League, announced the league schedule has been suspended for a week or 10 days to ascertain if Chicago, the fourth city in the western section, is ready to play.

Indoor Diamond League Inaugural Delayed

St. Louis Pandas
St. Louis, Missouri · 1939

Whitney Martin Associated Press column headed Diamond Aces Aid Softball Cause, describing the cocktail hour launch party of the National Indoor Baseball League with Gabby Street, Tris Speaker, Harry Davis, Brick Owens and Bill Wambsganss in attendance, quoting plans for eight clubs in eastern and western divisions, pay as high as 80 dollars a week, a 40-foot pitching distance and a 17-week schedule ending in a world series.

Diamond Aces Aid Softball Cause

The Laredo Times
New York, New York · 1939