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negro leagues DB update: 1935 negro national league
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(Crossposted at Seamheads.com) Check out the newest addition to the Negro Leagues DB: the 1935 Negro National League season. The defending champion Philadelphia Stars fell off quite a bit in 1935, partly because several of their key performers (Biz Mackey,... Continue reading
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chicago union giants, undated broadside
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The 1911 Chicago Union Giants panoramic postcard that Brian Campf sent me recently reminds of another fantastic Union Giants image, this one a broadside shown to me by Jason Miller last year. I was going to post it then, but... Continue reading
Posted Jul 9, 2014 at agate type
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home run johnson: the autobiography
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Here, courtesy of John Russell, is a brief sketch of Grant “Home Run” Johnson’s career up to 1913, with details supplied by Johnson himself—plus a photo I’ve never seen before of Johnson in the colors of the Royal Poinciana Hotel... Continue reading
Posted Jul 2, 2014 at agate type
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chicago union giants, 1911
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Check out this amazing panoramic postcard from Brian Campf: This was taken in the town of Daggett, on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, on September 6, 1911, the day of a game between W. S. Peters’s Chicago Union Giants and the local... Continue reading
Posted Jun 16, 2014 at agate type
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home run johnson’s résumé
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A quick rundown on Grant “Home Run” Johnson’s credentials as a great player and manager and significant historical figure: • On October 7, 1893, Johnson, having just turned 21, hit two home runs off Tony Mullane to lead his hometown... Continue reading
Posted Jun 11, 2014 at agate type
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willie wells and the 1943 alijadores de tampico
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Brian Campf sent me this postcard of the Alijadores (Lightermen) de Tampico of the 1943 Mexican League, featuring Willie Wells as player-manager (standing at the far left). Notable members of the team included the Mexican first baseman Àngel Castro, the... Continue reading
Posted Jun 1, 2014 at agate type
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elias bryant
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(Warren PA Times-Mirror, June 18, 1930, p. 11) Back in 2008 I wrote about the murder of Elias Bryant, who played baseball under the name of “Circus Country Brown” and was known for his on-field comedy act. In 2010, I... Continue reading
Posted May 28, 2014 at agate type
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the latest on chino smith
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New research in passenger lists has increased confidence that we’ve got the right man in the search for Dobie Moore. It’s done the same for Charles “Chino” Smith, the legendarily pugnacious high-average hitter for the Lincoln Giants and Royal Giants... Continue reading
Posted May 17, 2014 at agate type
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the latest on dobie moore
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Here’s the latest on the search for Walter “Dobie” Moore, the great Kansas City Monarchs and Santa Clara Leopardos shortstop. In case you haven’t been keeping track, see this and this. To sum up: Dobie Moore, born in Atlanta sometime... Continue reading
Posted May 16, 2014 at agate type
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rube speaks
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During the winter of 1926, Wesley Rollo Wilson, the dean of east coast black sportswriters, conducted an interview with Rube Foster that has become a key text in the modern reconstruction of Negro league history. I first happened upon it... Continue reading
Posted May 9, 2014 at agate type
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cuban stars vs. philadelphia giants, detroit, 1911
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Brian Campf sent me this seemingly ordinary photograph from the early part of the century: But zoom in on one of the posters in the shop window behind the family, to the left (their right): It’s barely legible, but at... Continue reading
Posted Mar 12, 2014 at agate type
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the negro league you’ve never heard of: the national association 1907-1909
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The first “Negro league,” which I would define as a professional circuit explicitly dedicated to clubs staffed by black players, was the League of Colored Base Ball Clubs, or the National Colored League, of 1887. The NCL was as national... Continue reading
Posted Feb 5, 2014 at agate type
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francisco sostre
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On July 6, 1947, a brief Associated Press item in the Portland Oregonian reported that “Another Negro” had joined organized baseball: (Oregonian, July 6, 1947, p. 33) The Rockford (Illinois) Morning Star (and a number of other newspapers) printed a... Continue reading
Posted Jan 31, 2014 at agate type
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bumpus jones
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If you haven’t heard of Bumpus Jones, feel bad. You should have. Here’s why. 1) He was called “Bumpus.” 2) In his first appearance in the major leagues on October 15, 1892, he no-hit the Pittsburgh Pirates. By some cosmic... Continue reading
Posted Jan 15, 2014 at agate type
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harry northup, cuban giants
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The Steve McQueen-directed movie 12 Years A Slave stars Chiwetel Ejiofor as Solomon Northup, a free black man in Saratoga Springs, New York, who was kidnaped and sold into slavery into 1841. It’s based on Northup’s own book about what... Continue reading
Posted Oct 23, 2013 at agate type
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isamu tashiro, 1918 chicago all nations
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The second entry in my series about early Japanese and Japanese-American players on black teams concerns Isamu (or Isami) Tashiro, a University of Chicago graduate and dental student who played for the All-Nation Baseball Club of 1918, run by something... Continue reading
Posted Oct 11, 2013 at agate type
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sanji sakamoto, “the japanese wonder”
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Since I wrote a few months ago about the earliest black American players in the Japanese league, I’m going to do a few pieces about early Japanese and Japanese-American players in the United States, all on black teams, or teams... Continue reading
Posted Oct 9, 2013 at agate type
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ted kimbro
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A few years ago I identified three Negro league players who died in connection with their military service during World War I. Two of them—Pearl Webster and Norman Triplett—died of disease in France. A third, Ted Kimbro, never went to... Continue reading
Posted Aug 25, 2013 at agate type
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another early negro leagues no-hitter
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Last year I identified Dick Redding’s whitewash of the Cuban Stars at Atlantic City on August 28, 1912, as the “first Negro league no-hitter.” Here’s an even earlier candidate, though it depends on how you define “Negro leagues.” On April... Continue reading
Posted Aug 23, 2013 at agate type
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santa clara’s 1922-23 record
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As I said yesterday, in the Seamheads DB we’ve got the 1922-23 Santa Clara team in the Cuban League going 15-12-1 in actually played games, as opposed to 14-13, as other sources have it. Here’s a more detailed explanation. As... Continue reading
Posted Jul 24, 2013 at agate type
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sam mongin & the 1915 lincoln stars
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Currently up for auction at Hake’s is this photo of the 1915 New York Lincoln Stars: It’s a great photograph, despite the damage to Judy Gans’s face and the somewhat inartful trimming done on some of the players in the... Continue reading
Posted Jul 19, 2013 at agate type
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a marker for pete hill’s grave
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This is the marker Jeremy Krock and the Negro Leagues Baseball Grave Marker Project arranged for the burial site of Pete Hill at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois. I received the photo from Ron Hill a few months back;... Continue reading
Posted Jul 19, 2013 at agate type
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settled
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Back in 2011 Brian Campf sent me this marvelous photograph of Juan Padrón with the New York Cuban Stars, ca. 1920: After I posted it, a couple of readers noted that the same image had been identified as Isidro Fabré.... Continue reading
Posted Jul 17, 2013 at agate type
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the rogans of sumner county, tennessee
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A couple of months ago I was trying to determine whether or not Oscar Rogan, a lefthanded semipro pitcher in Indiana in the late 1910s, was related to Wilber “Bullet” Rogan, the Hall of Fame pitcher for the 25th Infantry... Continue reading
Posted Jul 17, 2013 at agate type
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buck freeman, negro league umpire
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This belongs in the “for what it’s worth” file, I guess. James Tate recently asked me about one of the umpires in the 1924 Black World Series, a man named Buck Freeman. I found out that there appeared to be... Continue reading
Posted Jun 28, 2013 at agate type
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