Tagged: great-names

24 clippings tagged great-names.

Newspaper feature headed Bob Messenger Is Leading Base Thief, Baron Speed Merchant Tops Base Stealers of League, Dave Robertson Follows Closely, Messenger Does Well After Late Start, reporting that the Alabama cyclone has annexed 47 bases in 84 games to Robertson's 41, that at his present pace he will outclass Jimmy Johnston's record of 81 burglaries on the cushions, and printing a table of the ten leading base runners of the Southern league headed by Messenger of Birmingham at .536.

Bob Messenger Is Leading Base Thief

The Birmingham Age-Herald
Birmingham, Alabama · 1913

Tall newspaper column headed Jax Goes Seven Frames Without Hit Off M'Phaul, Brewton Schoolboy Crumples In Eighth And Visitors Start Scoring, reporting the Jacksonville Tars' 4 to 3 ninth-inning win over the Montgomery Lions in the Southeastern League, with T. D. McPhaul holding the Tars hitless for seven innings before crumpling, Bear Cat Cantwell surviving seven bingles, subheads Narlesky Shines Afield and Start Fine, homers by Danny Seremba and doubles by Shorty Long and Butch Simons, and a final frame in which Goat Walker and Joe Untz collided trying to field a bunt, closing with a note that the Saintly crew from St. Augustine arrives next.

Jax Goes Seven Frames Without Hit Off M'Phaul

The Montgomery Advertiser
Montgomery, Alabama · 1927

Newspaper column headed Browns 9, St. Elmos 0, This Was the Way Cavanaugh's Kids Treated the Old-Timers Yesterday, reporting a game at Traction Park between the McIntosh Browns and a St. Elmos team of incapacitated Browns, Santa Fe Centrals and Barelas players, describing a rain delay in which the clouds wept great tears of grief for the dead ones while fans huddled in the dry spots of the grand stand, Old-timer Snapper Hale retiring from the field under cover of the rain, the muddy grounds favoring the Browns because they had their McIntoshes on, Gallegos pitching gilt-edged ball with twelve strikeouts, full lineups, a line score and Umpire Mason.

Browns 9, St. Elmos 0

Albuquerque Evening Citizen
Albuquerque, New Mexico · 1906

Newspaper column headed Aberdeen Loses in a Slugging Match at Centralia Sunday, with a four-team standings table for Olympia, Centralia, Aberdeen and Hoquiam, a story blaming the loss on Farmer Brown leaving his rabbit's foot at home under his pillow, describing Centralia sluggers taking to Hanson's curves like a duck to water, and reporting that a wireless dispatch received just before press time said the scorer had finally got the score added up at 14 to 13 for Centralia, followed by a subhead Olympia Wins at Hoquiam with an account of an errorful game and a protest over Baker being called out for cutting first base, closing with the score by innings.

Aberdeen Loses in a Slugging Match

Aberdeen Herald
Aberdeen, Washington · 1904

Large studio portrait of Andrew Rube Foster seated in a bowler hat, dark suit and bow tie, one hand resting on a chair arm. The caption reads Andrew Rube Foster, Manager and Captain of the World's Colored Champions, the Leland Giants.

Andrew Rube Foster

Leland Giants
Chicago, Illinois · 1910

Five newspaper photographs of Leland Giants players stacked in a column. John H. Loyd standing in a Lelands uniform, captioned Leland Giants' Star Second Baseman. Bruce Pettway standing with catcher's mitts in both hands, captioned The Peer of All Catchers. J. P. Hill posed batting, captioned Leland Giants' Center Fielder, considered the equal, if not the superior, of any man playing baseball. Andrew Payne standing with a glove, captioned The Wonder of the Outfield. James Booker stretched low to scoop a ball, captioned Star Catcher, Now Playing First Base for the Leland Giants, he is a star in any position.

First Annual Base Ball and Sporting Number

Leland Giants
Chicago, Illinois · 1910

Story by Bill Fuchs headed Girls' Pro Nines Clash Tonight If Ahearn Weather Permits, reporting that Jimmy Foxx and Guy Bush were each drawn into girls' baseball by long-time friends and neither would give it up. Bush's Battle Creek Belles and Foxx's Fort Wayne Daisies, members of the American Girls' Professional Baseball League, play at Griffith Stadium at 8 o'clock, weather permitting. Bush praises Sophie Kurys as the fastest girl that ever played, and the story ends with Bush declaring, with Foxx nodding agreement, this is not softball, this is girls' professional baseball, period.

Girls' Pro Nines Clash Tonight If 'Ahearn Weather' Permits

Battle Creek Belles
Washington, D.C. · 1952

Associated Press story headed Flick of Wrist Tells Max Carey If a Girl Has Baseball Talent, reporting from Newark that Max Carey, former Brooklyn Dodger manager and National League base-stealing record holder, scouts for the All-American Girls' Baseball League, the only feminine professional baseball circuit in the country. Next Monday 180 of Carey's finds convene at Miami for spring training at Opa Locka. Grand Rapids Chicks shortstop Teeny Petras describes training days from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Players earn 55 to 100 dollars a week and wear short athletic skirts, knee-length socks, baseball caps and spiked shoes. Slacks are out, but lipstick is a must, Carey said.

Flick of Wrist Tells Max Carey If a Girl Has Baseball Talent

All-American Girls Baseball League
Newark, New Jersey · 1948

Tall column advertisement headed Base Ball in a double-ruled box, for games at Finkle's Park Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, May 27, 28, 29, Waterloo vs Brownies, games called at 3:30, Sunday games at 3:00, admission 25 and 35 cents, ladies' days Tuesdays and Fridays.

Base Ball at Finkle's Park: Waterloo vs. Brownies

Times-Republican
Marshalltown, Iowa · 1906

News item headed Carey Is Named Pilot Of Girls' Ball Teams, reporting from Chicago that Max Carey, best remembered as one of the National League's top base stealers and once Brooklyn manager, will manage one of the six teams of the All-American Girls' Professional League, joining a managerial staff of Marty McManus, Claude Jonnard, Bert Niehoff, Jack Kloza and Johnny Gottselig, with franchises in Racine, Kenosha, Rockford, South Bend, Milwaukee and Minneapolis.

Carey Is Named Pilot Of Girls' Ball Teams

All-American Girls Professional League
Chicago, Illinois · 1944

Story headed Extry! Poor Old Man Is Mobbed Once More, reporting from Galveston that the feature of yesterday's game with the Buffaloes was the assaulting of Umpire Derrick by Catcher Quiesser of the Sand Crabs, whose removal cost Galveston the game, with the line score of the 6 to 3 loss.

Extry! Poor Old Man Is Mobbed Once More

Galveston Sand Crabs
Galveston, Texas · 1909

Short news item in which the West Side Base Ball Association hereby challenges the East Side Farmers Union Base Ball Association, commonly known as The Di Dappers, to play a game of base ball one day next week under Marquis of Queensbury rules, complaining that the umpire beat them out of the last game by tipping their signals off to the opponents, and boasting that with an even break of luck they can make the East Side look like the Hope S. S. League, ivory and all.

Under Marquis of Queensbury Rules

The Prescott Daily News
Prescott, Arkansas · 1917

Story headed The Big Doings at Brookfield, Mo., previewing an October 5, 1921 game between the American League All Stars, led by John Tobin of the St. Louis Browns, and the Brookfield Buicks, with out of town umpires and seats reserved through the Community club.

The biggest sporting event in the history of north Missouri

Brookfield Buicks
Brookfield, Missouri · 1921

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

Large boxed advertisement reading Base Ball, Magnolia Bluff To-Day, Mobile vs Pensacola, Game called 4 p.m., See line up elsewhere, Free dancing every night, Prize dance Friday. Stitched below is the story Pensacola To Play Mobile At The Bluff, announcing the Mobile Beavers arrive this morning for a series of games and printing both teams' lineups position by position.

Base Ball, Magnolia Bluff To-Day: Mobile vs Pensacola

The Pensacola Journal
Pensacola, Florida · 1909

Story headed Victoria Has Fastest Team In S.W. League, quoting a local fan on Jack Burke's Rosebuds playing classy ball with team work that is a revelation, and the Houston Post declaring Victoria has everything else in the league outclassed because they have mastered the supreme art of team-work, mentioning managers Trapper Longley and Piggy Page.

Victoria Has Fastest Team in S.W. League

Victoria Rosebuds
Victoria, Texas · 1910

Story headed Chicks Won First Sunday Game, Defeated the Paterson Union Leaguers by Score of 3 to 2, reporting Wilmington's first Sunday game of the season before 3000 spectators in weather far too cold for baseball, with full box scores of both teams, and below it a boxed advertisement reading Baseball, South Side Park Tuesday Afternoon, Wilmington vs Altoona, Game Called 3.30 o'clock, Admission 25c, Grand Stand 25c, Ladies Grand Stand Free except Saturdays and Holidays.

Chicks Won First Sunday Game

Wilmington Chicks
Wilmington, Delaware · 1908

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

Story headed Brent Gets To Top As The Chick Premier Hitter, reporting the Chicks are still at the bottom of the Tri-State League but won three of six games, with a full batting and fielding averages table by Alexander Abrahams showing Brent leading at .339 with Fritz at .325 and Weeks at .304.

Brent Gets to Top as the Chick Premier Hitter

Wilmington Chicks
Wilmington, Delaware · 1911

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

Full-column game story headlined Faircloth Loses Pitchers' Battle, recounting a twelve-inning 2 to 1 game between Clinton and Keokuk, with the complete box score.

Both pitchers were tight wads when it came to a pinch

The Daily Gate City
Clinton, Iowa · 1914

Front page announcement reading Base Ball! Oregon Azureines vs. St. Joe Monarchs, Base Ball Park, Oregon, Mo., Saturday, August 10, 1889, promising an interesting game and admission of 10 and 5 cents.

Oregon Azureines vs. St. Joe Monarchs, game called at 4 o'clock sharp

Oregon Azureines
Oregon, Missouri · 1889

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 story headed Amusement Features describing a base ball game between the White Seals and a Poteau team, and a comic game between the town's carpenters and painters.

One mysterious home run and the carpenters threw up the sponge

Mena White Seals
Mena, Arkansas · 1906