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The Irish in Baseball ALSO by DAVID L
The Irish in Baseball ALSO BY DAVID L. FLEITZ AND FROM MCFARLAND Shoeless: The Life and Times of Joe Jackson (Large Print) (2008) [2001] More Ghosts in the Gallery: Another Sixteen Little-Known Greats at Cooperstown (2007) Cap Anson: The Grand Old Man of Baseball (2005) Ghosts in the Gallery at Cooperstown: Sixteen Little-Known Members of the Hall of Fame (2004) Louis Sockalexis: The First Cleveland Indian (2002) Shoeless: The Life and Times of Joe Jackson (2001) The Irish in Baseball An Early History DAVID L. FLEITZ McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers Jefferson, North Carolina, and London LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGUING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Fleitz, David L., 1955– The Irish in baseball : an early history / David L. Fleitz. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-7864-3419-0 softcover : 50# alkaline paper 1. Baseball—United States—History—19th century. 2. Irish American baseball players—History—19th century. 3. Irish Americans—History—19th century. 4. Ireland—Emigration and immigration—History—19th century. 5. United States—Emigration and immigration—History—19th century. I. Title. GV863.A1F63 2009 796.357'640973—dc22 2009001305 British Library cataloguing data are available ©2009 David L. Fleitz. All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying or recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. On the cover: (left to right) Willie Keeler, Hughey Jennings, groundskeeper Joe Murphy, Joe Kelley and John McGraw of the Baltimore Orioles (Sports Legends Museum, Baltimore, Maryland) Manufactured in the United States of America McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers Box 611, Je›erson, North Carolina 28640 www.mcfarlandpub.com Acknowledgments I would like to thank a few people and organizations that helped make this book possible. -
Base Ball Players
BASE BALL, TRAP SHOOTING AND GENERAL SPORTS Vol. 51—No. 6 Philadelphia, April 18, 1908 Price 5 Cents LATEST NEWS The Appeal of Player Ryan Dis All of the Major League Clubs Be missed Elmer Flick©s Return lieved to Have Lost More or Deferred Another Brooklyn- Less on the Training Season Nashville Deal Protested, Except the Wise "Old Roman" SPECIAL TO " SPORTING LIFE." SPECIAL TO "SPORTING LIFE." Cincinnati, O., April 14. The National New York, April 13. Now that the pre Commission has just handed down a decis liminary season is over it may be stated ion in the matter of t&e appeal of player authoritatively that all mayor league clubs John Ryan. That player with one exception lost more states that the Boston Ameri or less heavily on the South can League Club purchased ern training trips, thanks his release from the Pueblo partly to cold and rainy Club, of the Western League, weather in the alleged and that his understanding "Sunny South," and partly was that the Boston Club to the fact that spring games would have to tender him a in the South by major league contract on or before March teams have lost their novelty 1 in order to hold him, but and no longer draw well, that they did not do so. He the receipts as a rule aver states further that he re aging only a third as much ceived $150 a month for a as a year or two ago. In season of five, months in the one exhibition game in the A. -
Debut Year Player Hall of Fame Item Grade 1871 Doug Allison Letter
PSA/DNA Full LOA PSA/DNA Pre-Certified Not Reviewed The Jack Smalling Collection Debut Year Player Hall of Fame Item Grade 1871 Doug Allison Letter Cap Anson HOF Letter 7 Al Reach Letter Deacon White HOF Cut 8 Nicholas Young Letter 1872 Jack Remsen Letter 1874 Billy Barnie Letter Tommy Bond Cut Morgan Bulkeley HOF Cut 9 Jack Chapman Letter 1875 Fred Goldsmith Cut 1876 Foghorn Bradley Cut 1877 Jack Gleason Cut 1878 Phil Powers Letter 1879 Hick Carpenter Cut Barney Gilligan Cut Jack Glasscock Index Horace Phillips Letter 1880 Frank Bancroft Letter Ned Hanlon HOF Letter 7 Arlie Latham Index Mickey Welch HOF Index 9 Art Whitney Cut 1882 Bill Gleason Cut Jake Seymour Letter Ren Wylie Cut 1883 Cal Broughton Cut Bob Emslie Cut John Humphries Cut Joe Mulvey Letter Jim Mutrie Cut Walter Prince Cut Dupee Shaw Cut Billy Sunday Index 1884 Ed Andrews Letter Al Atkinson Index Charley Bassett Letter Frank Foreman Index Joe Gunson Cut John Kirby Letter Tom Lynch Cut Al Maul Cut Abner Powell Index Gus Schmeltz Letter Phenomenal Smith Cut Chief Zimmer Cut 1885 John Tener Cut 1886 Dan Dugdale Letter Connie Mack HOF Index Joe Murphy Cut Wilbert Robinson HOF Cut 8 Billy Shindle Cut Mike Smith Cut Farmer Vaughn Letter 1887 Jocko Fields Cut Joseph Herr Cut Jack O'Connor Cut Frank Scheibeck Cut George Tebeau Letter Gus Weyhing Cut 1888 Hugh Duffy HOF Index Frank Dwyer Cut Dummy Hoy Index Mike Kilroy Cut Phil Knell Cut Bob Leadley Letter Pete McShannic Cut Scott Stratton Letter 1889 George Bausewine Index Jack Doyle Index Jesse Duryea Cut Hank Gastright Letter -
Base Ball, Trap Shooting and General Sports
BASE BALL, TRAP SHOOTING AND GENERAL SPORTS. Volume 47—No. 6. Philadelphia, April 21, 190(5. Price, Five Cents. "GRIPS" NEW PLAY. ANOTHER WRINKLE OE THE NEW MANAGER LAJOIE NOW HAS HIS YORK MANAGER. BAT FERS SIZED UP. He Says He Has Thought Out, and In Making up His Order He Explains is Working up, a Trick Play That Why the Tall Slugger, Bradley, Excels^the "Squeeze Play" and is Placed Second—Catcher Bue- Wiil be a Winner in the Long Run. low's Job Safe For a Time at Least. New York, April 15.—Manager Grif Cleveland, O., April 15.—Editor fith, of the Highlanders, has another "Sporting- Life."—The Cleveland team, surprise in store for the American barring acidents, will line up with the Leaguers this summer. same batting- ordej- as it He is working up a new has in most of the exhi play which, he says, \vill bition games. Bay will help to win him many a lead off, with Bradley game, just as the squeeze following'. Then will play has often pulled come Flick, Lajoie, Turn him out of a tight hole. er, Jackson, Stovall, the "It's a play that can't be catcher and pitcher. In worked every day," said discussing this batting1 Griffith, "but it will order today. Manager La come pretty near going joie said: "Some persons through every time. I have thought it queer can't divulge the secret because Bradley is sec of the play just at pres ond on the list, a place Clarke Griffith ent, but I \vill try it in usually occupied by a NapoleonLajoia some of the games to be scientific hunter. -
The Early Southern Association 1901 - 1926
The Early Southern Association 1901 - 1926 Atlanta Birmingham Chattanooga Little Rock Memphis Mobile Nashville New Orleans S. Derby Gisclair Member Society for American Baseball Research The Atlanta Crackers Al Bridwell (1884 – 1969) Born in Friendship, Ohio, Bridwell served his first stint in the Southern Association with Atlanta in 1903 and was unremarkable. He posted a .196 batting average during 81 games. Bridwell made his major league debut on April 16, 1905 and played shortstop for five different teams during his eleven seasons in major league baseball (1905 – 1915) and was considered to be one of the best hitting shortstops of the Deadball Era. He ended a streak of 3,246 consecutive at-bats without a home run by hitting his first career homer of George Suggs on April 30, 1913. However, Bridwell will forever be remembered for hitting the single that began the “Merkle’s boner” rally on September 23, 1908. He returned to the Atlanta Crackers at the age of 32 in 1916, playing twelve games at shortstop, batting a respectable .325 that year. He returned in 1917 at third base (67 games) and second base (20 games) and batted .283 for the season. Bridwell served two terms as the sheriff of Scioto County, Ohio, before becoming a security guard at a steel factory in Portsmouth, Ohio. He died on January 23, 1969 after being hospitalized for two months. Charles “Whitey” Alperman (1879 – 1942) A native of Etna, Pennsylvania, Alperman made his major league debut on April 13, 1906 with the Brooklyn Superbas (Dodgers) and played four seasons in the majors. -
This Entire Document
BASE BALL, TRAP SHOOTING AND GENERAL SPORTS Volume 50, No. 25. Philadelphia, February 29, 1908. Price, Five Cents. THOS.GRAYSEC. JOED£LEHANTY,OF. 0, HARA . Q. F ()J f SRORTIIVQ FEBRUARY 29, 1908 Gravey, Cedar Bapids, la., and Morris Danihy, Ro sign of base ball spring, in the shape of chester, N. Y. passes for the season of 1908. The Lake Shore League has adopted a 1908 cham "A violet by a mossy stone, PULLIAM PLANS pionship schedule, season opening May 3 and closing "Half hidden from the eye; October 4. "A single star, when only cms The Roanoke Club, of the Virginia League, has "Is shining In the sty," signed southpaw pitcher Martin Staley, late of Evansville. were not half as sweet as these early hya INVOLVE NO RADICAL CHANGES The Memphis Club has signed catcher Dan cinths of the national game. Mr. Murphy O©Leary, of the champion Rock Island, I.-I.-I. possesses the happy fa.culty of doing the League, Club. right thing at the right time. Your cor IN ANYTHING. Will Kelly, of East St. Louis, has signed as respondent©s appreciative acknowledgments catcher with the Birmingham, Ala., team, in the are hereby tendered for the courtesies of the Southern League. West Side park; also apologies to the poet if President Carpenter, of the Iri-Stite League, has The Erratic Pitcher Makes His he isn©t quoted just right above. Excepting Will Recommend Bat Two Changes signed John Mullen, the star umpire ot tho 19<J. a little miscellaneous gossip about players P. 0. M. -
Rafael Sabatini Odgers T. Gurnee Ft Jugs Ofthat Favored Whiskey Traveled Home to Many a Cotton Or Tobacco Plantation in the Blue Grass Country ^
APRIL, 1935 CENTRAL EDITION Hugh Fullerton —• Rafael Sabatini Odgers T. Gurnee ft Jugs ofthat favored whiskey traveled home to many a cotton or tobacco plantation in the Blue Grass country ^ DEPARTURE from the quaint old hotel in Crab For this local whiskey was not only rich and red and Orchard, Kentucky, was an event to be mellow—it was economical, and that was also important long remembered. in those days shortly after the peace of Appomattox. As they rolled away, guests might recall, It was that same reputation of goodness combined with misty-eyed reminiscence, the golden-brown fried with economy which suddenly lifted Crab Orchard to chicken, the crisp pone sticks, and other good old southern national fame, more than sixty years later. delicacies that had made Crab Orchard cooking known There had been another war, then prohibition, then from Cumberland Gap clear up beyond repeal. People were searching for a the lazy Ohio. straight whiskey made the good, old- They might look back and long for Kentucky straight whiskey fashioned way —at a price they could the clear, healthful waters of Crab Made the good oid-fashioned way afford. Orchard's famous limestone spring. Smooth and satisfying to taste And suddenly they discovered Crab But the menfolks took one memento Orchard! Almost overnight, a demand with them. Grinning darky boys ten Sold at a price anyone can pay began to grow, which swept across derly deposited, beside the master's the country. And this local favorite feet, a jug of that rich red Bourbon of other years is America's fastest- which helped the tiny town of Crab selling straight whiskey today. -
Base Ball Uniforms One of the Innovations Decided Upon for Shibe Park, the New Home of the Athletics the LOCAL CAMPS* Next Season, Is Free Score Cards
SEE! Annual Trapshooting Review in This Issue SEE! BASE BALL, TRAP SHOOTING AND GENERAL SPORTS Vol. 52 No. 22 Philadelphia, February 6, 1909 Price 5 Cents The Regular Pacif Have Laid Their ic Coast Organ Lines for a Battle ization and the to a Finish Dur Outlaw Califor ing the Long 1909 nia State League Base Ball Season. AKLAND, Cal., January 21. Edi League, has signed 0. C. Rasch, of Coving- tor "Sportiae Life." At a ton, Ky., as an umpire for the coming sea meeting of the Pacific Coast son. The race will open about May 1 and League, held at San Francisco yesterday, the circuit was in close September 15. A meeting of the creased to six clubs. Sacra league will be held in Richmond on Febru mento (whch the outlaws were ary 15, for the purpose of arranging a sched forced to abandon) and Saji Pedro were ule which will consist of 100 games. Every admitted to membership. This latter ad effort is being made to make the Blue Grass dition to the Coast League will make it pos League a success this season. Last season sible to have continuous ball at Los Angeles, its first only one club made a profit. As as San Pedro is only a short distance from all of the clubs have had experience, they Los Angeles and the San Pedro team will will manage better in 1909. The Richmond. play there when the Los Angeles team is on Club will have a new park, with commodious the road. Fred Maier, a wealthy brewer, stands next spring. -
The Evolution of the Spitball
The Evolution of the Spitball The use of spit to get extra movement on a breaking ball is as old as the game itself. There are solid stories of Tommy Bond and Chick Fraser throwing what could be termed a spitball back in the 1800s. Bobby Matthews was one of the game’s first great pitchers, and his “drop ball” was actually a spitter. There is an account of Matthews using this “drop pitch” when he was 16 years old, which was way back in 1868! But apparently no pitcher from the 1800s had such an electrifying spitball that they used it as their main pitch. Unlike the next generation of spitballers, the early practitioners of the pitch seemed to be going for a more mild form of the pitch that would be easier to control, and the detailed descriptions of their technique generally involved just moistening the tips of their fingers. The second coming of the spitball had pitchers who were getting a huge break on the pitch, and rather than wetting their fingers, they focused on moistening a spot on the ball itself. Some were described as slobbering on the ball, and a few even licked the ball directly with their tongues. One spitballer of the new generation described his method as wetting a spot on the ball about the size of a “half dollar.” The big breaking pitch was tough to control, but for those who could master it, it was such a superb weapon that around 1904 we began to see for the first time pitchers who were using it as their dominant pitch. -
Base Ball Players
BASE BALL, TRAP SHOOTING AND GENERAL SPORTS Vol. 51 No. 5 Philadelphia, April 11, 1908 Price 5 Cents PENNANTTQFLY CHANCE©S SHOES WILL CAUSE AT AN* EARLY DATE OVER THE AN APPEAL. "CUBS©" PARK. Recent National Commission De Flag-Raising Day to Be Celebrated cisions The Atlantic Associa on the Occasion of the World©s tion Completes Its Organization Champion Chicago Team©s First N Wagner Remains Obdurate* Game at Home on April 22* SPECIAL TO "SPORTING LIFE." SPECIAL TO "SPORTING LIFE." Chicago, 111., April 7. "Hank" O©Day, Chicago, Ilk, April 7. The Cubs© second one of the veterans on President Pulliam©s consecutive National League, pennant ©will be umpiring staff in the National League, ex hoisted to its place on the Wast Side flag presses the opinion that pole on April 22, when the Frank L. Chance, the man world©s champions are sched ager of the Cubs, would not uled to open their season be allowed to wear the here with Cincinnati, and "made to order©© spike the remodeled plant will be shoes which were prescribed thrown open to public in by the specialist to cure the spection for the first time. "ailment in his left foot. The later date for christen "Hank©© cites the rules as ing the world©s pennant has laid down in the laws of not been decided by Presi the national agreement. dent Murphy. The construc Rule 19 sets forth in ad tion work on the stands has dition to the kind© of uni been completed, but decora forms each club shall wear tive details will be contin Hank O©Day on the home grounds and ued until the opening of the Chas-W. -
Base Ball, Tr,Ap Shooting and General Sports
READ! NEXT WEEK, OUR NEW STORY, " TOR LOVE OF COUNTRY." READ! BASE BALL, TR,AP SHOOTING AND GENERAL SPORTS. Volume 43, No. II. Philadelphia, May 28, 1904. Price, Five Cents. THE NATIONAL LEAGUE CHAMPIONS GREAT MEET HELD BY THE YORK STILL FLOUNDERING. CITY GUN CLUB. The Veterans of the Team Seem to Over ICO Shooters Participate J. A. R. Have Lost Their Battiog Skill Not EHiott High Expsrt L. B. Fleming Oiie of the Players in Regular Form High Amateur Fen Cooper Won The Pitcliers Bracing up. Target Championship The Details. BY A. R. CRATTY. BY WILL K. PARK, Pitsburg, May 2.3. Editor "Sporting York, Pa., May 21. The fourteenth an- Life:" One department of the Pittsburgh ual tournaments of the Pennsylvania State where a defect existed has been braced portsnieu©s Association was held on. the up during the home stand. York County Agricultural Still another is yet to be Society grounds, here, this (shored up. The pitchers eek. It must be placed during the week ending 14th :i the list of "big shoots" put up a good defensive of the country, not only in stand, but. on the offensive ttendance, but in complete their comrades were unable ness of arrangements and to tear off chunks. The npidity of conducting the batting is light. Only in vents. v, one game during that week The Tournament Commit did the nine hit with any tee of the York City (inn degree of freedom, and in Club, under whose auspices this two hits broke up the the meet was given, were: game. -
1908 Oakland Commuters ©Diamondsinthedusk.Com
TEAM SNAPSHOT: 1908 Oakland Commuters ©DiamondsintheDusk.com “Sacramento fans are being entertained this afternoon at Oak Park by an alleged baseball team from Oakland and the score this afternoon will likely 1908 Oakland Commuters Game by Game Results be runs for the Sacramento boys and doughnuts for the visitors. The Oaks will also eat doughnuts tomorrow afternoon.” March Opponent W/L Score Record Pitcher of Decision -Sacramento Bee 28 at Stockton L 0-7 0-1 Van 0-1 29 at Stockton L 2-5 0-2 Doane 0-1 Poor Walt McMemony. April 4 at Sacramento L 0-18 0-3 Doane 0-2 And who exactly is Walt McMemony? From 1905 to 1908, Mc- 5 at Sacramento L 1-13 0-4 Van 0-2 11 Fresno L 2-4 0-5 Waterbury 0-1 Memony is the manager of the Oakland Commuters of the “outlaw” 12 Fresno L 0-8 0-6 Doane 0-3 California State League, a circuit not in the National Association 18 San Francisco L 0-2 0-7 Waterbury 0-2 and that the Spalding Baseball Guide calls “one of the most formi- 19 San Francisco L 0-2 0-8 Symons 0-1 dable outlaw baseball organizations in existence”. 25 at San Jose L 0-2 0-9 Streib 0-1 26 at San Jose L 2-3 0-10 Symons 0-2 May In his four seasons at the helm of the luckless Bay-area Commuters, 2 at Santa Cruz L 6-9 0-11 Waterbury 0-3 the unfortunate, but likeable McMemony is 24-145, resulting in a 3 at Santa Cruz L 5-12 0-12 Goldy 0-1 14 percent winning percentage, or a 86 percent losing percentage, 9 at San Francisco L 3-5 0-13 Seaton 0-1 or an average of six wins a year.