San Antonio, Texas

5 clippings from San Antonio, Texas.

Base Ball column from 1891 San Antonio previewing a Galveston series, noting Longley throws a good speedy curve, that Butler is slightly disabled, that this is ladies day at the ball park and turning out encourages the players to play ball when the fair sex is well represented, ending with the full San Antonio and Galveston lineups.

This is ladies day at the ball park

San Antonio
San Antonio, Texas · 1891

Cartoon by P. Fox of President Taft as an enormous balloon-round figure floating over a ballpark grandstand eating from a bag of peanuts, above a dispatch reporting Taft called baseball the cleanest, the finest and the manliest sport in all Christendom and declared I believe they should hit it out.

Speaking of Fans, He's Got the Bug Right, This One

San Antonio Light and Gazette
San Antonio, Texas · 1909

Column headed Amateur Base Ball Doings reporting that the faster amateur clubs are playing two and even three games on Sunday, offering the paper's services arranging games and organizing a league, with the caveat that the only thing we don't like to do is to umpire, followed by results including the Government Hill Tigers, Viaduct Reds, Jokers, Saps and Household Furniture Company.

The only thing we don't like to do is to umpire

San Antonio Light and Gazette
San Antonio, Texas · 1909

Two side-by-side stories from 1909: Navigators Blow Up and Broncs Win, a 12 to 4 slugfest account with box score in which the locals fatten their batting averages, and Cap's Answer Characteristic, in which Cap Leidy is presented a joke floral horseshoe made of beets and answers with five clean line drives in five times at bat.

Navigators Blow Up and Broncs Win

San Antonio Broncos
San Antonio, Texas · 1909

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