B.C.* "Hall of Famers" (Before Cooperstown) Andrew Milner SABR Regional Presentation 2004 Washington Post, 3/3 1/1905 WHY BASEBALL GAME GROWS. Cleanness of the Sport and its vasn ana Rack" Baring. Tien Keefe, Chastey fad: bourne, John Wad, and ethers who used rect comdinaiions with attribu:es they wera 20 for- be blessed with cocusy alches the banaball hall of fame that tht dam> pesers vould never nop Te numbakulls are “Ceadhends"~or oe Washington Post, D/I 5/1 907 SA SEBALIBALE OF FAME Washington Post, 2/14/1909 Masngtes degre: a piiifroragather here next week. ‘Tho. majors are coming ta}, adopt achedulé#: tha siinora ate.on thé way. to adopt shortstops, Zichers. and}! F -well-regulated . mlnor’! league tuzillles. As all of the sixteen bis leaguo_clubs |, hold title to. the services of from 28 to 6 players, there iy ape to be & wild scrar- Ble on the part of-tho minor club-caners to daciare themselves in- when the cream of the talent ts being passed mround. Already an unusually large number of erstwhile major. loague stars have beén turmed over the minore, and more are die to or eball vide within the next 1 With “iron, Man’) McGinntty;, *Dumey"" Tay- lor, “Braiting. rit, ‘and others, whose namés hays for years been written high in the baseball hall of fame, the fan ls Temingdd that the decline ‘of that mplen- id generation of players, Who wero st thelr best just about the time of the war detween the American and septions lengues, 13 setting jn and g old farhiiar faces will be succanded wy {he younetters just doveloping.NY Times, 2/28/1909 McGINNITY GETS RELEASE. ceaves Giants and Becomes Part! Owner of the Newark Club, Pitcher Josoph MoGinnity, the Tron Man,” will hardly ever again“tear the anitorm of the Giants. He has bean re- ‘waued outeight by the New York Club. Scorctary Kuawles roeclved word from President John T. fireay, who Is at the training quarters of the players at Mar- un, ‘Pexas, that Mr. Brush had sent the folowing telegram to McGHoalty: ‘Tha Now Tork Club «ives you your wncon~ nave my best e9 ned, wishes, form Fou Bave expen the. mum zg Uatve tite is Who past, sed) Washington Post, 7/5/1912 STREET STEALS A BASE . ‘THAT HAS A RUNNER ON Qharies “Gabby” Street puted a play in the afternoon game yesterday that entities him to a place Im the Boschall Hall af Fame right alongeide the miche occupied by John Auderson: It wan ie the eighth luaing. Ford wan on third and Street an fret, with none + The cntener stole xecond, Groom, bin 014 battery mate, ying ne at- fentien to Dim, wugh be saw him going. The crowd gEnve Street a great hand, and he nm- auttoncd bis collar tn enne hin the ball, and “Gabby” got back te second base. ——o Baseball Magazine, 9/1911 UREKA! I have run to earth the ‘greatest fan in the realm of base- Dall. the holder of the world's most record, undisputed, unchallenged, no matter how opinion may divide on the freest batter. the boldest base pil- ferer, the fastest Selcer. or on any other dlement entering into the game of games. The fan to whon I refer is now a resident of Ocean Grove. N. J... a den- Uist practicing his profession in the ad- Joining city of Asbury Park—Dr. George L. D. Tompkins. Attend, if you please, while I present Dr. Tompkins’ claim to a pedestal in the baseball hall of fame. Los Angeles Times, 4/21/1916 Some Bassball Crom.” “] OOKS LIKE OVERFLOW FROM A JOINT SESSION.” Harry Carr Sees Official Washington Taking a Day Off. President end Sirs, Wilson, Senators, Congressmen and Other Greets and Neorgreats Soo Wolter Johnson Mess up the New York Yankees—Joe Gedeon has a Good Day wit the Bat and « Wild One inthe Field ‘BY HARRY Gann [BY DIREC? WIRE—EXCLUSIVE DISPATCH) ASHINGTON HCREAU OP THE TIMES, Apt 2.—Owing in the ftuet that the Prev'dent bad to take ira Wilson Io the opening ane of hy Washicgion season, tho Xaler ddy't got he custom 7 vote trem tho Called Bales today, Perhope the ope he got yesterday vill do him for areal days, ms Doctor Wilson saw the groat Waller Jchnsoe mast the Tenks into 2 biecding muss for efx innings, than atcod uy wich te reet of the fhe to ‘the ewventh in order to bring tho great phcher lock for more macting ‘Th seamed to be partietlarip breataminded on the pert of the Presi. ont, for was th Dre timo Chat he and wis bride bara bad to take 2 beck ne ok en, ‘He wap edliyoed Uy the raw-dened Beds in tho box,Los Angeles Times, 5/12/1915 Official Recognition. The Aldermen o? a large eastern city have given baseball official recog- nition a3 @ sclence, while a Cleveland minister, weary of donsting a tall-end team, has pulled his freight and moved to Chicago. He figures that he may have a chance to pull for a contender tn dear old Chi. As Chi- cago has three teams, the odds ought to be in favor of the minister. ‘Thus, baseball seems in'a fair way to become @ factor in the educational @nd religious life cf the nation, and in that way attain heights of which its founders little dreamed. All that remains is for some esthetic guy to stand up on his hind legs and declare baseball an art. When the game completes this triumph we may reasonably expect to see the names of Mugsy McGraw, Paderewsk!, Hap Ho- Gan and Rembrandt housed in the same hall of fame, while the ques- tion of which of the Wagners, Wil- helm Richard, the composer, or Hans of Pittsburgh, is the greatest, doubt- less will shake many of our culture clubs to their very foundations. And, with baseball declared a sci- ence, there 1s everr reanon to believe that the names of Erv Higginbotham, Dutch Klawitter and Rhino Hitt will go down through istory Inked with those of Archimides, Darwin, Tesla. Edison snd others who have made an unqualified success ay scientists. These are all encouraging signs, and in a short time we may expect to see J, Cal Ewing appcinted to the chair of Daseball at Berkeley. New York Times, 2/6/1916 (National League's 40th Anniversary) BASEBALL, T00, HAS ITS HALL OF FAME ee In This Day .of Anniversaries * Noted Old-Timers Are Being Recalled. DEEDS THAT ARE HISTORIC Achievements of Certain Great Fig- ures of National League Loom Up Still In Memory. In long Ust of players who have | seen stars in the National League. there! ure geveral names which will live aa} ‘ong as bacubalt {6 played. ‘Thore names | handed down from generation te Aeration, and the boys in the bleachers ! ay van well about many of tie old-! ‘ime stars whose reputations lave lved * 1 spite of the britiiant diamond Ughts | vf the present day, 4San Francisco Examiner, 10/17/1912 GLARING MUFF BY aa BRINGS ON