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“The Sudden Reappearance of ‘Silver’ King”
Oliver Perry “O.P.” Caylor wrote in June of 1896 in The New York Herald: “One of the baseball surprises of the season is the apparently successful reappearance of ‘Silver’ King upon the National League...
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“The Ty Cobb of Trapshooters”
Lester Stanley “Les” German broke into professional baseball with a bang in 1890. The 21-year-old played for Billy Barnie’s Baltimore Orioles, a team that had dropped out of the American Association...
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Giants Versus Phillies in Verse
When the New York Giants met the Philadelphia Phillies on May 1, 1895 The New York Evening Sun provided a novel recap—the entire game was presented in verse: The weather did its level best To fire...
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