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Short front page item headed Indoor Base Ball, Ladies Night, announcing that Thursday night at 8:15 the two leading teams in the Indoor Base Ball League, McCormick and Gammon, will play for the Price Cup, with the ladies of the city cordially invited to witness the game.

Indoor Base Ball. Ladies Night.

The Leader
Brookhaven, Mississippi · 1904

Column article headed Ardmore Girls to Play Base Ball, Young Ladies' Team Is Being Organized and May Challenge Rabbit Foots, reporting a picked nine of young ladies organizing in Ardmore, then quoting a New York Journal story about Riley's Wonders, whose 12-year-old captain Nellie Riley struck out ten boys, with the girls practicing at night by electric lights.

Where That Girl Learned to Curve 'Em

The Daily Ardmoreite
Ardmore, Oklahoma · 1909

Short column item headed Base Ball Game, reporting that Manager W. E. Smith of the New Theatre has organized a base ball team among the attaches of his theatre, to play their first game at California Junction against W. A. Smith's team of base ball artists.

W. A. Smith's team of base ball artists

Missouri Valley Times
Missouri Valley, Iowa · 1903

Short newspaper item headed Fine Chance for Lively Ball Player, quoting a want ad from an eastern paper seeking a first class grocery salesman capable of driving a delivery wagon, taking orders, working in the store nights, managing the business when the owner is away and taking care of the stable, who must also be a good pitcher and first baseman able to hit .300 so he can manage the local ball team, at fifty dollars a month, ending with the parenthetical note that when we get the address of this modest grocer we will publish it.

Fine Chance for a Lively Ball Player

The Spokane Press
Spokane, Washington · 1909

Newspaper column headed Do Fans Want Baseball Team, This Question for Mitchell Supporters of National Game Is Up for Consideration, asking whether Mitchell will have a team this season ahead of a game against Letcher at the college field, noting practically every city and town in South Dakota has a team in the field, that Sioux Falls and Huron pay salaries, recalling that fifteen years ago Mitchell was decidedly on the baseball map with old fans and players like J. E. Wells, William Scallin and Dr. Ray Smith, calling those teams one of the best advertising mediums Mitchell probably ever had, and reporting a 1 to 0 win over Letcher last Sunday.

Do Fans Want Baseball Team

The Mitchell Capital
Mitchell, South Dakota · 1915

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

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

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

Column article headed Mayor Addresses the Fans, Says Success of Baseball Team Rests With the People, printing the full text of Mayor Meyer's speech opening the 1910 baseball season for Mankato, ending mid-sentence where the bottom of the page is cut off.

Nowhere under God's blue canopy do the people love their game as we do our baseball

Mankato Free Press
Mankato, Minnesota · 1910

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 poem headed Play Cat, credited to James Dempsey Bullock, reading Heavy are the hearts in Wilson, bowed each head in shame. Our base ball club is losing almost every game. The rabbit foot long ago has lost its magic power, and the Ouija board no solace gives, in this dark and trying hour. Be still sad heart and cease repining. For every cloud has a silver lining, and every one is good for something, we are sure of that. And while they can't play ball perhaps they can play Cat.

Play Cat

The Daily Times
Wilson, North Carolina · 1921

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

Short locals column headed New Hartford News, reporting that Frank Hoffman the butcher is racing around in his new automobile, that a number from New Hartford went to Cedar Falls Thursday to see the Boston Bloomer Girls play base ball, and that the New Hartford team lost to Parkersburg 9 to 0 at the Stout carnival.

A number from New Hartford went to see the Boston Bloomer Girls

Times-Republican
Marshalltown, Iowa · 1907

Tall newspaper column headed Outgrowth of the Game of Town Ball, with the deck A. G. Spalding Tells of His Research Into the Origin of the National Game, in which Spalding traces base ball from the colonial games of One Old Cat, Two Old Cat, Three Old Cat and Four Old Cat through town ball, quotes pioneer H. H. Waldo of Rockford on town meetings, gingerbread and cider, describes the square town ball field with goals sixty feet apart, tallies kept by notching a flat stick, and follows the Massachusetts game of base ball until it died a natural death and the New York game became the only game of base ball played anywhere in the world.

Outgrowth of the Game of Town Ball

Evening Star
Washington, D.C. · 1908

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

AP Newsfeatures story headed Girl Softballers Finish Their Transition To Professionals, with a photo of catcher Ruth Richard. The American Girls Baseball League, founded 12 years ago by Phil Wrigley and Branch Rickey as a four-team professional softball circuit, has completed its gradual transition to baseball as played in the major leagues, with the regulation nine-inch ball in use since July 1. The story recounts the ball shrinking from 12 inches in 1943 through 11 and a half, 11, and 10 and three eighths, sidearm pitching introduced in 1946 and overhand two years later, and Rockford's Marie Mansfield hurling a four-hitter. Falling attendance forced the changeover, and the new game must save the league financially or the girls will be back in the amateurs.

Girl Softballers Finish Their Transition To Professionals

Rockford Peaches
Rockford, Illinois · 1954

Column item headed The Nashville All Stars, Said To Be Fastest Bunch in South: a letter to the editor of The Freeman challenging all baseball clubs willing to give a fair guarantee, describing a club composed of the cream of the Capitol City League, every man a born athlete, signed Nashville All Stars, Thomas R. Bryant, Pres. and Sec.

Said to be fastest bunch in South

Nashville All Stars
Nashville, Tennessee · 1914

Game story headed Allowed 3 Hits, with subheads Doc Reynolds Gave Wichita Team Coat of Whitewash, Did Not Allow Safe Drive Until Eighth Inning, Given Faultless Support, Lanky Pitcher's Safe Hit Scored First Run, and Forsythe Got Three Safe Hits in Four Times at Bat. The story says the short grass of Kansas is famous for its grasshoppers and Doc Reynolds made it more famous with the hopper on the delivery he dished up to Wichita, holding the visitors to three hits while the Kaws piled up five runs. Full Wichita and Topeka box scores follow, ending Umpire Segrist, time 1:35.

Allowed 3 Hits

Topeka Kaws
Topeka, Kansas · 1913

News story headed High-Class Baseball Promised As Girl Teams Battle Tonight, previewing an exhibition at Griffith Stadium between the Fort Wayne Daisies and Racine Belles at 8:15, with a photo of pitcher Isabel Alvarez captioned Pitches tonight. Manager Max Carey is expected to use his two Cuban hurlers, Mirta Marrero and Isabel Alvarez. Maxine Kline, the leading hurler in the All-American Girls League with a 47-14 two-year record, starts for the Belles. Betty Foss, the league's leading hitter at .346, smacked three hits last night. Carey, former star of the Pittsburgh Pirates, claims the girls play sound, smart ball as good as most minor league teams.

High-Class Baseball Promised As Girl Teams Battle Tonight

Fort Wayne Daisies
Washington, D.C. · 1951

Game story headed Witches Beaten by Indians 9 to 7, with the subhead Ump Flood Is Almost Mobbed, Omaha Beats Boosters. The report from Wichita says Oklahoma City got an early lead of six runs and won a wild ball game, and that Umpire Flood was almost mobbed by local fans for calling Gregory's hit into left field an infield fly, checking a big Wichita rally in the eighth. Full box scores for Oklahoma City and Wichita follow with a long summary ending Umpires Flood and Wilson, time 2:00.

Witches Beaten by Indians 9 to 7

Wichita Witches
Wichita, Kansas · 1920

Column article headed Women Play Base Ball, Married Ladies of Baxter Defeated by Basket Ball Team, reporting a game at the Baxter Athletic park won 19 to 18, with the batteries named, gate receipts going to the Junior band, and a chicken pie supper by the Ladies' Aid society.

Women Play Base Ball

Times-Republican
Marshalltown, Iowa · 1907

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

Associated Press story headed Chicago's Girls' Baseball Loop Offers Good Pay, Clean Fun, reporting that more than 100 lassies from 21 states and Canada begin playing professional baseball in Chicago at salaries from 40 to 100 dollars weekly, in four well-manicured parks with six teams playing a 90 game night schedule, attendance expected to top 500,000, Red Grange installed as league commissioner, Parichy Stadium foremost in the dress parade with a 7,500 dollar red and white dressing room, and the average girl baseball player 22 years old, 5 feet 5 inches, 127 pounds, wearing red fingernail polish.

Chicago's Girls' Baseball Loop Offers Good Pay, Clean Fun

National Girls Baseball League
Chicago, Illinois · 1947

Sports column with a hand-lettered heading reading Scrambled Sports by Wag, with a small photo of a ballplayer captioned Mee. Items report that shortstop Julia Mee and pitcher Harry Baumgartner of the Omaha Buffalo herd have been released, that yesterday was house cleaning day in the Western league with a 16 player roster limit, notes on the Wichita club, boxing gossip, the observation that rainy days let players sit around and win conversational pennants, and a closing item saying the Wichita club's nicknames are Witches and Izzies but the latest is Isbergs in honor of Owner Isbell.

Scrambled Sports

Omaha Buffaloes
Omaha, Nebraska · 1922

Front page story headed Trailbreakers In Girls Baseball Arrive For Practice, Plan Exhibition Games, reporting that a baseball aggregate of 144 damsels moved into Pascagoula for two weeks of spring training, arriving from Canada and almost every state in the Union by train and bus. A sidebar headed Mother Plays In League profiles Racine pitcher Joan Winter and Pat Keagle, one of three mothers in the league. The continuation from page six adds WAC veteran Gloria Tippy Tipton, who played exhibition baseball across Europe, a section headed Girls Not Tomboyish quoting players on men and marriage, Esther Johnson, whose uncle played ball with the St. Louis Cardinals, and Rockford shortstop Dorothy Snookie Harrell, who works off seasons as an I.B.M. key punch operator. The story closes: And these are only five of the 144, there are all types and sizes of girls in the league, but when they are together there is just the one job for them all, baseball.

Trailbreakers In Girls Baseball Arrive For Practice

All-American Girls Baseball League
Pascagoula, Mississippi · 1946

Magazine feature headed Casey Is A Lady!, with the deck These gals are real ball players. Watch them. Three photos: a batter mid-swing captioned It's a Hit! She swings like Joe DiMaggio, shortstop Ellen Ahrndt leaping to corral a hot line drive, and players watching from the bench captioned Anxious. Score's tied, it's last of the ninth. The text by George Berkowitz explains that the All-American Girls' Professional Ball League plays a game much like regular baseball, uses nine players instead of softball's ten, pitches underhand but it isn't soft pitching, and pays 40 to 100 dollars a week.

Casey Is A Lady!

All-American Girls Professional Ball League
Chicago, Illinois · 1944

Locals column headed Rose Creek, reporting that the base ball game between the married men and the single men resulted in a victory for the single men, 49 to 48, followed by town notes and a complaint that the Sunday game between the Packing house and Rose Creek was one of the dirtiest the correspondent ever witnessed.

A victory for the single men, 49 to 48

Mower County Transcript
Lansing, Minnesota · 1909

Sports column headed Helps Fair Fans, with subheads Baseball Management Gives Them Five Free Days, Admitted Free at Gate Except on Few Occasions, Moving Pictures of Game Will Be Taken Friday, Women Should Wear White, and Baseball Dope and Comment From O'Neill's Circuit. The column urges ladies to put on white dresses and go to the ball game Friday, where the Victor film company will take moving pictures of the first two innings, then announces that on every day except Saturday, Sunday and holidays women will be admitted free at the gate, an innovation in Western league baseball, ending with a note that President Arch Catlin will send out the free tickets promised for the school children.

Helps Fair Fans

Topeka Kaws
Topeka, Kansas · 1912

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

Bordered feature headed Batting Figures Can Be Fat—but That's All!, by Jayne Miller, reporting from Chicago that a new league where a slim figure will be as important as a fat batting average opens tomorrow with the backing of two major league baseball magnates, P. K. Wrigley of the Chicago Cubs and Branch Rickey of the Brooklyn Dodgers. The 70 girls wound up spring training partly at Wrigley Field and partly in a beauty parlor. A photo shows shortstop Terrie Davis of the Rockford team at bat, with the caption Her batting figure may not be the envy of a major leaguer, but it looks good from where we sit.

Batting Figures Can Be Fat—but That's All!

All-American Girls Softball League
Chicago, Illinois · 1943

Short news item headed Softy Girls Plan Major Pro Loop, reporting from Chicago that the new all-American Girls' Professional Softball League, backed financially by Phillip K. Wrigley, owner of the Chicago Cubs, plans to operate this summer mainly in the Chicago area but will scout for talent throughout the Nation, with tryouts in May in cities throughout the United States.

Softy Girls Plan Major Pro Loop

All-American Girls Softball League
Chicago, Illinois · 1943

Story headed Hoosiers Coming to Play Bronchos, reporting that the Indianapolis team will be in San Antonio for games next Monday and Tuesday, that the Indians have been walloping all teams they have thus far faced and seem to be some ball team, and that the Bronchos are rounding to in pretty good shape.

Hoosiers Coming to Play Bronchos

San Antonio Bronchos
San Antonio, Texas · 1910

Story headed Giants and White Sox Will Play Three Games In El Paso, reporting the chamber of commerce gave a big guarantee for the series as a feature of the Os-Aple Jubilee, that for three days the city will be the center of the universe for baseball fans of the southwest, and that the teams leave the east after the world's series and arrive probably November 4 for the opening game.

Fans of the Southwest Will See the Giants and White Sox In El Paso

El Paso Herald
El Paso, Texas · 1913

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

Front page editorial headed What About a Ball Park?, arguing that Farmington should build a base ball park and grandstand in the spring, that good ball games are a real asset to a town and that Sunday baseball is no more harmful than autoing.

What About a Ball Park?

The Farmington Times
Farmington, Missouri · 1922

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

Short news item headed Base Ball Game Tonight, reading: Tonight in Eagle Hall the third and deciding championship base ball game will be held between the Army and Navy and Nome All Stars. The game will start promptly at 8:30 p.m. and after the game a public dance will be given.

Base Ball Game Tonight

Nome All Stars
Nome, Alaska · 1922

Story headed Base Ball recounting a three game series between the Sedalia Sentinels and the Versailles Merchants: Sedalia takes Friday 5 to 4, the Merchants win Saturday 19 to 4 and close the series Sunday 5 to 2, with Prof. J. M. Stith umpiring the whole series.

Each game was liberally patronized by lovers of the national sport

Versailles Merchants
Versailles, Missouri · 1905

News item reporting that David Slesnick and Donald Grove, two Oil City base ball stars who have made good records with local teams, have gone to Wellsville, New York, expecting to play with the team of that place, a member of the Interstate league, Grove for a tryout for a pitching position and Slesnick to sign up as catcher, credited to the Derrick, with the Forest Republican adding that Donald is a Tionesta production and so it goes without saying that he will make good.

Two Oil City base ball stars extend the scope of their operations

The Forest Republican
Tionesta, Pennsylvania · 1914

Photo feature headed Indoor Baseball On Big Scale showing Klepack, Brooklyn shortstop, out at first base in a National Professional Indoor Baseball League game in Bronx Coliseum, with Martin of the New York Giants taking the throw. Below runs Harry Grayson's NEA story Recreational Game Can't Be Sold At Price, Say Veterans, in which softball officials argue the new league forgot sex appeal because girls outdraw men, listing the famous names running each club and noting a planned indoor world series in March.

Indoor Baseball On Big Scale

The Laredo Times
New York, New York · 1939

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

Full column front page story headed Base Ball, recounting the Oregon Azureines' 12 to 7 loss to the St. Joe Monarchs before 600 people, ending with a full box score, the game time of 1:55 and umpire Mont Curry.

They would have eaten St. Joe up, even as the small boy eateth plum pudding

Oregon Azureines
Oregon, Missouri · 1889

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

Brief news item headed Ball Player Suspended, reporting from Philadelphia that Sherwood Magee, star outfielder of the Philadelphia National League baseball club, who Monday assaulted and severely injured John Finneran while the latter was umpiring the game with St. Louis, was today indefinitely suspended.

Ball Player Suspended

The Pensacola Journal
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · 1911

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

Column item reporting a base ball meeting in Kansas City that formed the Western Circuit of Negro Base Ball League, listing the Chicago American Giants, the Indianapolis A. B. C. Club, the Detroit Stars, the St. Louis Giants and the Kansas City Monarchs, with a booking agency handled by Andrew Rube Foster of Chicago and a first game to be played at Association Park.

Some of the biggest base ball men in the country

Kansas City Monarchs
Kansas City, Missouri · 1920

Story by C. Green headed Locals Take First Place In Florida League, reporting Lakeland swept a Labor Day doubleheader from Fort Meade before six hundred fans, with full box scores of both games: a 6 to 5 first game and an 8 to 0 second game shutout by Hall, plus complete summaries down to umpire Moore and attendance 600.

Locals Take First Place In Florida League

The Evening Telegram
Lakeland, Florida · 1914

Whitney Martin Associated Press column headed Diamond Aces Aid Softball Cause, describing the cocktail hour launch party of the National Indoor Baseball League with Gabby Street, Tris Speaker, Harry Davis, Brick Owens and Bill Wambsganss in attendance, quoting plans for eight clubs in eastern and western divisions, pay as high as 80 dollars a week, a 40-foot pitching distance and a 17-week schedule ending in a world series.

Diamond Aces Aid Softball Cause

The Laredo Times
New York, New York · 1939

Story headed Silver City Wins From El Paso, Poor Exhibition Of Ball Saturday, recounting a 9 to 5 loss at Washington park in which the score board boy deducted a run just to make the game more interesting, Harley stole home as Ducky Gowan walked, and Harley Kiefer made a grandstand catch that brought a hurry call for the water bucket.

Poor Exhibition of Ball Saturday

El Paso Mavericks
El Paso, Texas · 1913

Two-column story headed Rules Must Be Obeyed, Changes Are Beneficial, with the subhead Coaches Will Be Barred From Stopping Runners Who Are Not Watching the Progress of the Ball, reporting 1914 rule changes: coaches may no longer physically stop base runners, a runner takes two bases if a player stops a thrown ball with his uniform or a thrown glove, the pitcher may now stand on the slab, and the leagues traded interpretations of the infield fly and balk rules.

Rules Must Be Obeyed; Changes Are Beneficial

Harrisburg Telegraph
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania · 1914

News item headed Base Ball Sunday, announcing that the local nine has arranged a game with the Perry nine at the Island Park grounds, noting last Sunday's thirteen inning game at Perry ended three to four, promising Kid Bevis will pitch for Perry and Burke for the home nine, and reporting several hundred tickets already sold.

A good, red-hot game of the national sport is assured

The Guthrie Daily Leader
Guthrie, Oklahoma Territory · 1901

Two letters from the Mexico Weekly Ledger. The first, headed Opposed to Sunday Base Ball, was read at the Methodist church before the sermon. The second, headed Working Man on Sunday Base Ball, defends the local Sunday games and is signed A Working Man, E. E. T., followed by an editor's note insisting future letters be signed with full names.

Oh! But what do we care for the poor working man

Mexico Weekly Ledger
Mexico, Missouri · 1905

Photo feature with two headlines, Batteries For Today Are Says Umpire and Who's the Catcher Asks the Crowd, showing catchers Burns and Cady posed over a packed Boston ballpark, with a paragraph on the world's series catchers.

Batteries for today are, announces the umpire

Evening Times-Republican
Marshalltown, Iowa · 1915

News item headed Indoor Base Ball, Another Game Tonight, Gossip About Games Now Being Arranged, reporting that the teams from Companies B and I of Minneapolis will cross bats at the armory, that professional players Foster, Hengle and Dugdale are organizing a team, and that Chicago has gone wild on the game with several leagues down there.

Indoor Base Ball. Another Game Tonight

The Saint Paul Daily Globe
Minneapolis, Minnesota · 1891

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

Short front page item headlined Wilson and Fiancee See Ball Game, reporting the president and Mrs. Norman Galt leaving for the world's series in Philadelphia, her new diamond ring and the president's hat blowing down Riverside Drive.

The hat took a journey of several hundred feet before being overtaken

Evening Times-Republican
Marshalltown, Iowa · 1915

Long column headlined Day of the Umpire, the parable of an ordinary baseball game and its chief executive, written entirely in mock biblical language.

Behold now the man that is an umpire, even a baseball umpire

The Ottumwa Courier
Ottumwa, Iowa · 1904

Base Ball column from 1891 San Antonio previewing a Galveston series, noting Longley throws a good speedy curve, that Butler is slightly disabled, that this is ladies day at the ball park and turning out encourages the players to play ball when the fair sex is well represented, ending with the full San Antonio and Galveston lineups.

This is ladies day at the ball park

San Antonio
San Antonio, Texas · 1891

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

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

Front page story headlined Baseball for Charity Tomorrow Afternoon, describing a doubleheader for the hospital fund with a full lineup of the town's butchers against its grocers.

The butchers play the grocers, then the Democrats play the Republicans

Chickasha Daily Express
Chickasha, Oklahoma · 1909

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-page newspaper photograph of pitcher Joe McGinnity in a New York uniform waving his right arm overhead, headlined This Is the Famous Iron Man of McGraw's Team, credited to a Republic photographer.

This is the famous Iron Man of McGraw's team

New York Giants
St. Louis, Missouri · 1903

Full-length newspaper portrait of Jesse Burkett holding a bat, headlined Burkett Chases a Bleacherite, with a caption explaining he chased a heckler who bolted out the Grand Avenue gate.

The sun god bolted when he saw Burkett climbing the fence

St. Louis Browns
St. Louis, Missouri · 1902

Newspaper item reading Call the score please. Here it is: Monday's game, Yellville 8 Newark 1. Tuesday, Yellville 5 Newark 3. Wednesday, Newark 4 Yellville 1.

"Call the score please." Yellville takes two of three from Newark

Mountain Echo
Yellville, Arkansas · 1905

Newspaper item about a boy with the financial acumen to climb a tree outside the ballpark to watch a base ball game and save his fifteen cents, ending with Don't interfere with him.

Don't interfere with the boy in the tree

Mountain Echo
Yellville, Arkansas · 1905

Four-line newspaper item saying Ben Ward says it takes a good man to umpire a ball game and referee a fight at the same time, but that he did it last Tuesday.

Ben Ward umpired the ball game and refereed the fight at the same time

Mountain Echo
Yellville, Arkansas · 1905

Short newspaper item reporting that the ball team at Walnut Ridge flunked on the local team too late to match a game with any other team, ending with Guess they got afeard.

No game on the Fourth. Guess they got "afeard"

Mountain Echo
Yellville, Arkansas · 1905

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