The final two decades of the nineteenth century, which were also the first two full decades of major league baseball, featured four dynastic teams. Cap Anson’s Chicago White Stockings, the forebears ...
At 5:30, one afternoon last week, Brooklyn stood stock still. Housewives sat breathlessly at their radios, putting off putting on the potatoes. Husbands, on their way home, lingered around parked ...
My first encounter with the Superbas was in an article in a 1908 Brooklyn Eagle, when the team took a steamship to Jacksonville for spring training (see graphic). I then followed “Superbas” ...
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