What a Box Score looked like in 1902
One hundred and ten years is a long time, certainly longer than our lives, but not so long that a box score doesn’t still hold much of the same form that it does today. Below is a image of the recap of...
View ArticleKicking off the pre-season
In honor of pitchers and catchers reporting this week I’m dipping my toe back into the water again, this time with an attempt to provide numerous items of varying quality and interest about baseball,...
View ArticleA look at a vintage baseball ticket
Good Depression era artwork here: This is what one of the of the tickets at Ebbets Field for the first night game looked like. This contest was considered prior to its playing a landmark move, it was...
View ArticleThe cost of a game – 100 years ago
Winter is coming and it’s during these darker days that I like to read more literary baseball prose, for that pleasure I always have a few Roger Angell books laying around for quick perusals. His work...
View ArticleThe Wartime baseball
The last time the Reds opened the season with 4 1 run games the ball and its makeup was suddenly questioned. In April of 1943 the Reds General Manager Warren Giles was perturbed by a slew of low...
View ArticleEarly Game trackers
Before electronic information, before radio we had Play-O-Graph which was an iron, gear driven wonder to masses of baseball fans in the streets during many big game. The image below was taken during...
View ArticleReds 150 – Throwback Uniforms – 1990
Whether you celebrate the Reds from a starting date of 1869 (first full professional team), 1882 (first year in the American Association), or 1890 (first year in the National League), you have to be...
View ArticleReds 150 – Throwback Uniforms – 1995
Whether you celebrate the Reds from a starting date of 1869 (first full professional team), 1882 (first year in the American Association), or 1890 (first year in the National League), you have to be...
View ArticleReds 150 – Throwback Uniforms – 1999
Whether you celebrate the Reds from a starting date of 1869 (first full professional team), 1882 (first year in the American Association) or 1890 (first year in the National League), you have to be...
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