Archive for April, 2007

Ads from the past

Friday, April 13th, 2007

The game has always been tracked in the press, from the New York Clipper to Baseball Magazine, and The Sporting News.
Also tagging along with the history of the game is the history of American culture, which is usually presented in small and large advertisements. Because these speak so much to our past I’m going to […]

Todays Dead Ball Player - Barry McCormick

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

To this day Barry McCormick is somewhat of a baseball enigma, raised on the East End of Cincinnati, near where the American Associations Kelly’s Killer’s played he was first brought to the attention of local star Buck Ewing, who also lived in the “Pendleton” area of the east side, this area was not officially named […]

Opening Day Minutia

Monday, April 2nd, 2007

No day says “Cincinnati” like Opening day, because Opening Day is Cincinnati.
Betty Heskamp.
I went to quite a few openers at Crosley Field, when I was in school. If you got a ticket you got out of school, and I hated school.
Pete Rose
Back in those days, if you weren’t I school on Opening Day, everybody […]