Tagged: great-names

15 clippings tagged great-names.

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