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“The Fourth of July in Baseball has Always been a Day of Reckoning”
During the 19th Century, when completing any given season in the black, or finishing the season at all, was not a foregone conclusion for a large percentage of professional teams; in 1892 O.P. Caylor...
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Things I Learned on the Way to Looking Up Other Things #21
Community Relations in Rochester, 1896 The 1896 Rochester Blackbirds battled the Providence Grays for the Eastern League championship all season—Providence ended up winning the pennant—but four...
View Article“Danny had been Drinking Steadily”
In July of 1893, the Brooklyn Grooms announced that veteran second baseman Danny Richardson had been suspended. Manager Dave Foutz told The Brooklyn Citizen: “I have laid Richardson off without pay...
View Article“The Charming and Fascinating Pig Ward”
It was as a “coacher” that Piggy Ward—who appeared in 221 games over parts of six seasons with five National League teams between 1883 and 1894—was best known That reputation began in the minor...
View Article“Mr. Cleveland Treated me Tiptop”
O. P Caylor of The New York Daily News said of seeing Cap Anson at the National League winter meeting after the 1893 season: “He looked so young, fresh, and skittish that I had the temerity to ask him...
View Article“A New Era in the Sport”
“The baseball world is beginning to roll itself into its usual spring prominence, and while managers are busy signing the players assigned to them, the public is awaiting patiently the beginning of...
View Article“He Made Base Ball More Dignified”
Oliver Perry “O. P.” Caylor’s death from tuberculosis in October of 1897 at age 47 took one of the most important chroniclers of 19th Century baseball. The New York Herald, his last paper, said: “Mr....
View Article“Suspend him Again, Brother Petit”
Edward “the Only” Nolan, the 22-year-old rookie pitcher for the Indianapolis Blues was scheduled to pitch against the Providence Grays on June 20, 1878, but just over a month after his major league...
View Article“Amos Rusie’s Running Astray and Amuck”
In April of 1896, Oliver Perry “OP” Caylor of The New York Herald said of Amos Rusie, who was weeks into what would be a season-long holdout and legal battle: “Rusie is just now a bigger man than old...
View ArticleChadwick’s Changes
Before the 1895 season, Henry Chadwick proposed “eight changes” to baseball in The New York Clipper: “First: The doing away with ‘hoodlumism,’ as shown in the form of dirty ball playing and blackguard...
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