Tulsa, Oklahoma

5 clippings from Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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

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