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Harold Seymour (June 10, 1910 – September 26, 1992) was an American baseball historian and academic who is best known as the co-author of the baseball history trilogy: Baseball: The Early Years, Baseball: The Golden Age, Baseball: The People's Game. Though Seymour was initially credited as the sole author of the highly acclaimed trilogy, his ...
Major League Baseball pitcher and coach Born in Chicago [15] Gloria Schweigerdt: Jun 10, 1934: All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player Born in Chicago [16] Alek Thomas: April 28, 2000: Major League Baseball player Born in Chicago Stan Wasiak: Apr 8, 1920: Nov 20, 1992: Minor league manager, King of Baseball: Born in Chicago ...
By 1875, the disputes had been resolved and the owners announced plans to develop the mostly-vacant area into residential properties.[Chicago Tribune, December 12, 1875, p. 6] Once the ball club's lease ran out, they went shopping for a new location, and secured a lease on the lakefront site which had been their home grounds for the ill-fated ...
The club spent the first five-plus weeks of the 1885 season on the road, [3] and the park was finally opened on June 6 with a victory over the St. Louis Maroons, late of the Union Association. Despite being "wanderers" early in the season, the powerful Chicago club, under player-manager Cap Anson, came home with an 18–6 record. They would ...
Artist's conception from an 1871 map. Union Base-Ball Grounds was also called White-Stocking Park, as it was the home field of the Chicago White Stockings of the National Association in 1871, after spending the 1870 season as an independent professional club playing home games variously at Dexter Park race course and Ogden Park. [1]
This is a list of fictional sports teams, athletic groups that have been identified by name in works of fiction but do not really exist as such.Teams have been organized by the sport they participate in, followed by the media product they appear in. Specific television episodes are noted when available.
Seymour "Cy" Block (May 4, 1919 – September 22, 2004) was an American professional baseball second baseman and third baseman for the Chicago Cubs of Major League Baseball during the 1942, 1945, and 1946 seasons.
The Mutual Base Ball Club of New York was an American baseball club established in 1857, the year of the first baseball convention.The Mutuals just missed out on being a founding member of the National Association of Base Ball Players that year, but later became a charter member of both the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players, or "NA", the first professional league, in 1871 ...