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Baseball Nuggets: November 2014

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Thursday, November 20, 2014. Baseball Amusement Machines - part 2. This post was originally published on September 25, 2010, at my Mark's Ephemera. Another set of ads for Amusement Machines from the page of Billboard, via Google Books. Again, from the 1950s. Compare and contrast from the previous blog post. Wednesday, November 19, 2014. This post was originally published on September 18, 2010, at my Mark's Ephemera. I've got a second installment of these waiting for another post. Don't go far. On Google ...

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Baseball Nuggets: March 2015

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Thursday, March 19, 2015. When inanimate objects played baseball. What if inanimate objects played baseball? July 14, 1922. Tuesday, March 17, 2015. Baseball Players To Invade Ireland. What a better way to celebrate St. Patrick's Day than to look back at some early clippings about baseball and Ireland? January 11, 1911. A few years ago. I used the following wire story. This one has a bit more info. November 5, 1917. And an attempt at humor. August 4, 1922. Images from GenealogyBank.com. May 31, 1913.

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Old Knoxville Base Ball: March 2015

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Old Knoxville Base Ball. Early base ball bits from east Tennessee. Monday, March 30, 2015. Knoxville's first two no hitters. Fellow SABR member Chuck McGill has been collecting info on minor league no-hitters. He's added over 500 no-nos to those already known about and published in the Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball. Last week The Sporting News. Published a nice story. He's made his spreadsheet. On August 22, 1912, Finis Wilson. August 23, 1912. August 23, 1912. The article in the New Orleans Item.

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Old Knoxville Base Ball: 1930s Stein's Baseball Team

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Old Knoxville Base Ball. Early base ball bits from east Tennessee. Monday, June 1, 2015. 1930s Stein's Baseball Team. Earlier today MLB Historian John Thorn tweeted:. That reminded me of a team in Knoxville, probably in the early 1930s. Stein's. Stein's baseball players showing backs of uniforms.". From The Thompson Photograph Collection. Part of the Calvin M. McClung Digital Collection. The player on the front row, left (below), reminds me a bit of Ted Kluszewski, what with his torn sleeves and all.

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Old Knoxville Base Ball: Knoxville Giants uniforms

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Old Knoxville Base Ball. Early base ball bits from east Tennessee. Image from the Beck Cultural Exchange Center. Image from the Beck Cultural Exchange Center. John Claude "Steel Arm" Dickey. Image from the Beck Cultural Exchange Center. Knoxville Giants (mid 1930s). Image from University of Tennessee. Knoxville Giants (mid 1930s). Image from University of Tennessee. Names from the Beck Cultural Exchange Center. Added by Mark D. Aubrey. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Maps of The Negro Southern League.

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Baseball Nuggets: Clinton Prison All Stars

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Tuesday, June 9, 2015. Clinton Prison All Stars. There's been quite a bit of media frenzy about the two inmates that escaped from the Clinton Correctional Facility. In Dannemora, New York. That prison is located in the county in which I was born and raised. Let's look at a few games that involved the Clinton Prison All Stars. In the summer of 1921 there were a few contests with the All Stars of Clinton Prison. July 30, 1921. July 30, 1921. And the results of that first game? August 1, 1921. August 3, 1921.

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Baseball Nuggets: May 2015

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Friday, May 29, 2015. The Critics Respond to ABC's Thomas W. Moore. Two years ago I posted about ABC's suggestion. To cut the MLB season to 60 games for the 1965 season. This week that story got picked up by Chuck Hildebrandt from SABR Media. Then Rob Neyer,. From FOXSports, picked up Chuck's posting. There had to be more to the original story, though. What was the reaction? A bit of research shows that not everyone was in favor of it. Washington DC) - April 22, 1964. Greensboro, NC) - April 23, 1964.

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Old Knoxville Base Ball: Audio

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Old Knoxville Base Ball. Early base ball bits from east Tennessee. This is a collection of audio files that are baseball related. MLB player, talking about collecting baseball cards in January, 2013. Tony was at a signing event in Knoxville, TN. Lady Walker, of the Engel Foundation. Speaking about Chattanooga's Engel Stadium in May, 2013. Hall of Famer, on his favorite baseball card. He was signing autographs at the 2013 Rickwood Classic in Birmingham, AL. Adam Alfrey, of the Knoxville Holstons. Brian Co...

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Old Knoxville Base Ball: November 2014

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Old Knoxville Base Ball. Early base ball bits from east Tennessee. Thursday, November 27, 2014. UT's 1909 series against Kentucky. Last year I was having an email conversation with Brian Bruce, then Assistant Director for Media Relations at the University of Tennessee. He said that there was a discrepancy in the series history between UT and the University of Kentucky. I took a look, and yes, things aren't quite right. UK has a total of 299 games being played from 1909 to 2013. Only one of them matches.