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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