By Harlan Pritchard, Brooklyn Eagle Staff BROOKLYN, April 6 — The grand pastime resumes this afternoon as the champion Whales, the pride of Brooklyn and the Legacy Baseball League’s top club, take the field at Bromwich Park to open their campaign for a second straight Legacy Cup. Under the expert guidance of their legendary skipper,…
Michael Monroe, owner of the Richmond Rifles, called his luxurious train car the “Big Sorrel.” Preston found that distasteful, even if he never liked Stonewall Jackson or his ugly god damned horse. He only saw Jackson once, riding around like a fool in the middle of some swamp while his soldiers trudged barefoot across Massaponax…
Karl and Walther Boeselager walked through North Philadelphia along Jefferson Street. It was noisy as the three-story buildings surrounding the road trapped the sounds of horse-drawn carts on cobblestone and the chatter of hundreds of people who had just finished their shifts or came from school. The Boeselagers arrived at Jefferson Street Grounds and bought…
What a weekend for the Chicago Packers! Fans of the team were utterly shocked to hear that new general manager Larry Link dismissed third year manager Ronnie Arrington so quickly after taking the reins of the franchise. Ronnie Arrington was viewed as a highly successful coach from Philadelphia when he was brought in to lead…
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1914-06-29/ed-1/seq-1 THE NEW YORK TRIBUNEMONDAY, JUNE 29, 1914 Vienna, June 28. The following details the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife re now available. At 10 a.m. the archduke, with the duchess, left the military camp in an automobile for the Town Hall. The car halted for some minutes while a number of…
Local papers are reporting that longtime pitcher Gerald Shearing, who has since 1910, been on the Oilers, will retire at season’s end. This article will look back towards the turn of the 20th Century where Mr. Shearing’s professional career began. During his career as a Pitcher for the LBL, The Maryland native himself has registered…
It was a wonderful April day in Philadelphia, the kind that made you believe in fresh starts. The sun bathed the cobblestone streets in a golden hue, and a light breeze carried the mingling scents of blooming flowers and freshly poured beer from the German Corner Pub’s brand-new Biergarten. The first week of warmth and…
As the 1913 year gets underway for the Legacy Baseball League, this is a look back on the 1912 season in the Pittsburgh Gazette for the Pittsburgh Oilers Championship season, and their first Pennant win under their newfound GM, Mr. Tyler Saylor. After the Oilers Western League Championship loss in the 1911 season, 1912 they…
Key injuries hurt Boston in 1912 The Boston Banshees are not going to be content with simply reaching the playoffs. “The Whales are a juggernaut that are stacked at all 8 field positions, and have two ace pitchers…they are borderline impossible to beat in a series”, said GM Michael Carroll at a presser today. “We…
By Doug Olmsted THE FLASK The dark oak grains of the desk in the general manager’s office still stretched and spiraled along its length like he remembered. The black and white photo taken during the fire that burned the St. Louis Beaver’s first stadium – the sinister work of the crosstown-rival Reds – still hung…