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Gacho Torres
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A few weeks ago, writing about the Eastern Colored League’s failed 1926 entry, the Newark Stars, I commented that their main claim to fame was hiring Sol White for what would be his last job in organized baseball. As it... Continue reading
Posted Feb 19, 2015 at Agate Type
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Negro Leagues DB Update: 1931 Eastern Negro Leagues
(Crossposted at Seamheads.com) New to the Seamheads Negro Leagues Database: the 1931 eastern black teams. Once again, there was no league on the east coast. As in the case of 1930, we are at this time including only games between... Continue reading
Posted Feb 11, 2015 at Agate Type
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Cristóbal Torriente: A New Mystery
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From the Outsider Baseball Bulletin, Vol. 1, No. 9 (August 4, 2010): This is the death certificate for Cristóbal Torriente, showing that he passed away of pulmonary tuberculosis at Riverside Hospital in the Bronx on April 11, 1938, having been... Continue reading
Posted Feb 5, 2015 at Agate Type
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Holy Cow!
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While researching the 1930 Negro leagues recently, I was checking a Brooklyn newspaper for a doubleheader between the Stars of Cuba and the Brooklyn Royal Giants. On the same page as the Negro league box scores I was surprised to... Continue reading
Posted Jan 26, 2015 at Agate Type
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Negro Leagues DB Update: 1930 Eastern Negro Leagues
(Crossposted at Seamheads.com) We’ve added games between the 1930 eastern Negro league teams to the Seamheads Negro Leagues Database. It was an astonishing year in black baseball history, a year that saw the first Negro league games played at night,... Continue reading
Posted Jan 25, 2015 at Agate Type
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Passing Through Rocky Mount, N. C.
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Posted Jan 19, 2015 at Agate Type
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Dewey Defeats Truman
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From the Baltimore Afro-American, October 2, 1926, a case of premature advertising: Continue reading
Posted Dec 27, 2014 at Agate Type
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“Let Me See That Ball!”
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From Daniel Okrent’s 1989 book Baseball Anecdotes, p. 72: You might be expecting a Bill James or Rob Neyer-style debunking in which I demonstrate that no such thing ever happened, or that the circumstances were totally different, or whatever. Actually,... Continue reading
Posted Nov 26, 2014 at Agate Type
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Dizzy Dismukes, West Baden Sprudels, 1912
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Doing some research recently I was surprised to run into this photo, which I’ve never seen, of Dizzy Dismukes with the West Baden Sprudels in 1912. (Indianapolis News, September 28, 1912, p. 10) Continue reading
Posted Nov 19, 2014 at Agate Type
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Walter Johnson vs. Los Angeles Giants, 1908
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Bud Clark of the Los Angeles Giants (Los Angeles Herald, October 25, 1908, p. 24); Walter Johnson, shown in the uniform of the Kids of Weiser, an Idaho team, in 1906-07. Nearly two years ago I wrote about Walter Johnson... Continue reading
Posted Nov 5, 2014 at Agate Type
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Negro Leagues DB Update: 1926 Eastern Colored League
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(Crossposted at Seamheads.com) The newest addition to the Negro Leagues DB, the 1926 Eastern Colored League (the Negro National League and World Series will arrive later), showcases the Atlantic City Bacharach Giants' breakthrough season. After three years of playing .500... Continue reading
Posted Nov 4, 2014 at Agate Type
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Steel Arm Davis
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In June 1919, the San Antonio Black Aces of the Texas Negro League raided the Waco Black Navigators for six players, the core of their team: “the famous ‘Highpockets’, who goes by the name of Hudspeth,” along with “Catcher Mackey,... Continue reading
Posted Nov 3, 2014 at Agate Type
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los eternos rivales
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James Tate sent me this photo a while back (almost two years ago, actually). I was able to confirm for him that the Almendares player on the right was definitely the father of Omara Portuondo. But the guy on the... Continue reading
Posted Nov 3, 2014 at Agate Type
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which bell in cuba?
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In the 1920s the Kansas City Monarchs had two right-handed pitchers from Texas named Bell, Cliff and William. They were unrelated, though the press liked to call them the “Bell Brothers.” William, nicknamed “W.” supposedly because he won so often,... Continue reading
Posted Oct 18, 2014 at Agate Type
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gibson & zorrilla
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Here’s a photograph from Brian Campf, who recently obtained it from friends in Puerto Rico. It shows Josh Gibson shaking hands with Pedrín Zorrilla, a Shell Oil executive and owner of the Santurce Cangrejeros of the Puerto Rican Winter League.... Continue reading
Posted Oct 17, 2014 at Agate Type
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alejandro oms
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Just ran across this item, from Hake’s spring auction. It’s a passport document, or proof of Cuban citizenship, for the great Cuban outfielder Alejandro Oms when he travelled to the Dominican Republic in 1929. It includes a fantastic photo of... Continue reading
Posted Oct 16, 2014 at Agate Type
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jimmy bonner
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In the comments to this post Rob Fitts m... Continue reading
Posted Oct 12, 2014 at Agate Type
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negro leagues DB update: 1936 negro national league
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(Crossposted at Seamheads.com) This week we add the 1936 Negro National League to the Seamheads Negro Leagues Database. The season started with a major defection: the Chicago American Giants, founding members of the league back in 1933, and the oldest... Continue reading
Posted Oct 9, 2014 at Agate Type
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the death of dick redding
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Ryan Whirty has been looking into the deaths of Dick Redding and Sol White, both of whom passed away in mental hospitals on Long Island, within a few years of each other. For some time researchers of Dick Redding have... Continue reading
Posted Oct 9, 2014 at Agate Type
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overestimating the fog: bullet rogan and joe williams
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Joe Posnanski has a great series (currently on hiatus) listing his version of the 100 greatest players in baseball history, a list that (as you might expect) includes several Negro leaguers. I’ve enjoyed these pieces quite a bit. But I... Continue reading
Posted Sep 12, 2014 at Agate Type
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clarence orme
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Stefanie Caruthers writes that her great-uncle, Clarence Orme (above), played baseball for the Kansas City Giants in the 1930s. Born on April 3, 1899, in Chamois, Missouri, Clarence Charles Orme moved to Kansas City, Kansas, in 1917, and lived in... Continue reading
Posted Sep 11, 2014 at Agate Type
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antonio susini
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During the 1921/22 Cuban winter season, the Cuban League could only field two teams, and when Almendares totally dominated, winning 4 out of the first 5 games played, fan interest plummeted. The league called it quits even before the New... Continue reading
Posted Sep 7, 2014 at Agate Type
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josé leblanc, mystery pitcher of the cuban stars
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On the morning of Friday, May 23, 1919, Tinti Molina brought his Cuban Stars across the Mexican/U.S. border at Laredo, Texas. His team announced their presence in the United States that afternoon with a 22 to 2 walloping of the... Continue reading
Posted Sep 5, 2014 at Agate Type
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negro leagues DB update: 1920-21 cuban league
(Crossposted at Seamheads.com) The latest addition to the Seamheads Negro Leagues DB covers the 1920/21 winter league season in Cuba. Heading the bill that off-season was none other than the biggest name in baseball at the time, one George Herman... Continue reading
Posted Aug 10, 2014 at Agate Type
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sol white, wilberforce 1897?
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Courtesy of Jay Sokol of Black College Nines comes this photograph of the 1897 Wilberforce University baseball team. This print belongs to Ray Lucas, whose great uncle William A. Wallace is seated in the middle row on the far left.... Continue reading
Posted Jul 24, 2014 at Agate Type
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