Welcome to the group. It's all about baseball........the greatest game of them all! We will talk about EVERYTHING here.......and we will have fun!! Please...
Hi: This site will develop over time. It will not be filled with goodies immediately. I'm counting on membership to grow a bit, and then those folks to...
I purchased two Brooklyn Royal Giants' jerseys from ebay recently. One is a very colorful (blue with gray script "BROOKLYN"), and the other much more realistic...
Did you know? The Brooklyn Tip Tops and Newark Peppers scheduled some very unusual doubleheaders for the 1915 season. They planned to play the morning game in...
The Federal League was the last major attempt to establish an independent professional baseball league in baseball in the United States in direct competition...
... Federal ... The league started as an independent minor league in 1912 as the Columbia League, but changed its name to the Federal League at the start of...
July 10, 1932-To save train fare for a single date appearance, Philadelphia Athletics manager Connie Mack only takes 2 pitchers on a short road trip to face...
One of the best-known songs in America, "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" was written by vaudeville's Jack Norworth in 1908. The``music is by Albert von Tilzer,...
The History of baseball in the United States can be traced to the 18th century, when amateurs played a baseball-like game by their own informal rules using...
From the beginning, graphic designs were used to identify teams. Often an Old English letter was worn on the chest. This style survives with the Detroit Tigers...
Caps, or other types of headgear with eyeshades, have been a part of baseball uniforms from the beginning From the 1840s to the 1870s, players wore various...
Pinstriping on baseball uniforms created in the 19th century was not used very long in major and minor league play, but was brought back by the Brooklyn...
By the end of the 19th century clubs were customarily wearing different uniforms at home and on the road. It became standard practice to wear white at home and...
In 1849 the New York Knickerbockers became the first team to use uniforms.[3] Their uniforms consisted of white flannel shirts, wool pants and straw hats. In...
Runs were scarce during the first two decades of 20th-century baseball as pitchers like Cy Young, Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson dominated the action....
1910 » Chicago's Ed Walsh tops Walter Johnson, 1–0, the 3rd straight time Walsh has beaten the Big Train and Washington by that score. Left fielder Fred...
I recently read a book by the famed historian and lifelong baseball fan David Halberstam. This book, cleverly titled The Teammates, describes a sixty-plus...
The Continental League was a proposed 8-team baseball league which never got off the ground but still had significant impact on baseball. It is generally...
Indoor Baseball Game, 1905 Indoor baseball was invented by George Hancock in 1887 at the Farragut Boat Club on Chicago's South Side. The basic equipment was a...
The Inventor Of The "Mud" Used To Rub Up Baseballs: They used to use chewing tobacco, then mud made of water and dirt from the playing field, to remove the...
Hello: Great news. ballcap.com has finally designed the most authentic old time Brooklyn cap ever produced! It is presently available as model: 1949. This is...
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