Tagged: cartoons

19 clippings tagged cartoons.

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

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

Newspaper cartoon and story headed Believers In Signs Bet On Sure Things. In the top panel three grinning men in hats trade shouts of fifty bucks he walks the next batter and let me have part of that bet. In the lower panel a pitcher winds up while a hand in the grandstand tips a hat, over the caption a baseball scandal was once started by pitchers and gamblers working together with the aid of a set of signs, signed Al Demaree. Below, a story by Al Demaree recounts the Pacific Coast league gambling scandal after 1919, in which pitchers colluded with gamblers in the grandstand over whether the batter would reach first base, signaling with a removed hat or crossed legs, until one pitcher missed the signs and the gamblers squealed.

Believers in Signs Bet on Sure Things

The Montgomery Advertiser
Montgomery, Alabama · 1927

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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