Tagged: cartoons

10 clippings tagged cartoons.

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