(The warden of one of the State penitentiaries has begun a system of Saturday half holidays for the convicts, a baseball game on the prison grounds being the main feature.) You tal...
Baseball, they say, has changed a heap; I guess it has, in spots, And yet I liked it better when we played it on the lots. There were no signs for "hit and run," no dazzling "fadea...
"I was with Clarke," the pitcher said To the Pittsburg millionaire. The rich man bowed his silvery head To the pitcher standing there. "Enough, good man! Give me your mitt! Walk ri...
Say, on the level, fellows, just a year ago to-day I wouldn't give a nickel for to watch them Yankees play; The Joints was good enough for me, and since I was a kid I hustled to th...
The game was on! The cheers and roars Rang Eastward to Long Island's shores; "Come on, you Matty--show your class!" "Oh, you Red Murray! Scorch the grass!" "Heads up, Big Injun!" "...
It looked extremely rocky for the Boston team that day, The score was one to nothing, with one inning left to play. Casey, who played in centre field, had shown an hour too late--...
They tell me that Matty can pitch like a fiend, But many long years before Matty was weaned I was pitching to players, and good players, too, Mike Kelley and Rusie and all the old...
He wasn't a strong looking fellow, And roughnecks played ball in those days; The ballgamers christened him "Yellow" Because of his mild, timid ways. Red Flynn slapped his face to a...
A pitcher known in the days gone by As a star of the first degree Was making the dirt and gravel fly In the shade of an old oak tree. His spade was long and his arm was strong, And...
I've been here nearly a season now, Watching the regulars, day after day; I wish some wizard would tell me how To break right into the game and stay. It isn't as if I were some thi...
He came here in the early Spring with all the tryout mob, Striving to bat like Wagner and to slide (spikes first) like Cobb. Some of the vets cried, "Bonehead!" Others remarked, "P...
"I used to have 'em buffaloed when I was with Duluth, Out in that dinky pine tree league, and here's the honest truth: This Mathewson ain't better. Say, the benders that I slung Ha...
Listen, dear rooters, and you shall hear Of the ride of a modern Paul Revere. The Paul Revere of "seventy-five" Rode like a fiend and won in a drive. The Paul Revere whose praises...
You want to play in the Big League, boy? I guess that you will some day, For you've shown the speed the managers need And the lightning brain (the managers' creed), And the heart t...
The cricket game was over and the sun was sinking low, The players in their blazers plodded homeward in a row. They stopped within the clubhouse for a final cup of tea, When up spa...
"Stranger, give me a chaw of terbaccer," Came from the lanky Georgia "cracker." "Know Ty Cobb? Wal, you bet we do! Desperate youngster, tough clear through! This is his home, but w...
He was tall and rugged and coated with tan, He asked no odds and he feared no man. When he shouted "Strike!" or yelped "Ball Two!" You can wager it went, and went clear through. Se...
"How are you, pal?" said Phoenix Phil, when he saw me late last night; "I'm back from the polo game," said I, "let's go and get a bite." "These polo games are funny enough," said m...
The Winter League is here again, and in his native town The hero of a thousand games has quietly settled down. * * * Spike Mulligan, the shortstop brave, who led the league in hitt...
Where does an umpire live? You ask me that? Come, I will take you to an umpire's flat. Ah! Here we are! 'Tis five flights up, behind; Umpires are used to hiding--they don't mind. T...
Winter howled around the corners of the old-time grocery store, Where the baseball star was sitting, giving out his baseball lore. Every day he told the neighbors in his little Wes...
The East Side Slashers were playing the Terrors, Piling up hits, assists and errors; Far from their stuffy tenement homes That cluster thicker than honeycombs, They ran the bases l...
(Wireless Apologies to Rudyard Kipling) If John McGraw can hold his health and cunning, If Matty's whip retains its fibre fine, If Raymond doesn't keep the lager running From Harle...
"It's just this way," said Danny O'Shay, As he whittled a stick and the hours away, "A player can booze for a year or two, The same as me or the same as you. You meet a ball-gamer...
They've got me sitting on the bench--I knew it had to come-- Kid Casey subbed for me at third the day I broke my thumb; My thumb got better fast enough, but when I wanted back, "Th...
I've heard of hits by Wagner, hits that scaled the left field fence, I've read about full many a clout tremendous and immense; I know about that old time wheeze where Ryan hit a ba...
A shudder ran around Forbes Field When Tyrus Cobb stole home. The brain of Honus Wagner reeled When Tyrus Cobb stole home. Manager Clarke his temples clasped, The Pirate rooters si...
Of course, McGraw is always wrong--he never picks a winner. That's why the Giant's backers never have the price for dinner. His record as a manager is one long trail of blunders--...
Yes, the baseball season's over and the geese are flying South; Giants count their winnings gaily, Yanks are frothing at the mouth. Glancing o'er the season's records, looking at t...
I saw them open yesterday, the Giants and their foemen, I saw them field and hit and run, the fast men and the slow men; The sky was just as blue above, the sod as green beneath As...