Satch on Segregation, 1943
In 1943, The Associated Press asked Satchel Paige about the prospect of integration in major league baseball:
Paige
“’It’s the only sport we haven’t cracked,’ the big, loose-jointed star of the Kansas City Monarchs said last night.
“’I think some of our boys will get major tryouts next spring; in a couple of years I believe they’ll be in the lineups. I wish we could start out with a club of own—all colored boys,’ he asserted. ‘Later, when they got used to us playing, they could mix the teams up.’”
Fat Cupid, 1901
When the Chicago Orphans released veteran Cupid Childs on July 8, 1901, The Chicago Daily News eulogized the big league career of the one-time star. Some highlights:
“The passing of Childs removes from the National League, probably forever, one of it’s best known characters… (He was) remarkably fast on grounders and flies, despite his fat shape and short limbs… (Chicago manager Tom) Loftus though he could make the fat man renew his youth, and Childs has certainly done the best he knew how. Through years of experience the league fielders had learned how to play for his hits; his batting became light in consequence, and his fielding continued very good for a fat old player.”
Childs
The paper was correct that Childs’ major league career had come to an end, he played three and a half more seasons in the minor leagues before calling it quits for good.
World Series Souvenirs, 1906
Two of the highlights of the surprise win by the 1906 White Sox over the Cubs in the World Series were the bases loaded triple by weak-hitting George Rohe that accounted for the all scoring in the 3-0 White Sox victory in game three; and Frank Isbell’s four doubles in game five.
Hugh Fullerton of The Chicago Tribune, who made his reputation as a prognosticator that year by being one of the few experts to pick the Sox, told his readers about an encounter with Isbell after the series:
Isbell
“I dropped in at the South Side Grounds…I discovered (Isbell) under the grand stand, staggering under a load of bats, and followed him along under the stand. Then he dragged out a bushel basket filled with old practice balls and began packing balls and bats into a big dry goods box.
“’What the dickens are those, Issy,” I asked.
“’Balls and bats.’ Calmly remarked the Terrible Swede.
“’what are you going to do with them?’
“’I’ll tell you,’ remarked Issy, seating himself on the edge of the box. ‘I began collecting them in July and saving them up. I knew everyone in Wichita (Kansas, Isbell’s off-season home) would want one of the balls that was used in the world’s championship series.
“’Those, he added serenely if ungrammatically, pointing at the bushel of baseballs, “are the balls Rohe made that triple when the bases were full.’ And those,’ he added, pointing to the bats, ‘are the bat used when I made those four doubles in one game.’”
Corbett on Gentleman Jim, 1916
After his baseball career, Joe Corbett worked for several years as a deputy to the San Francisco County Clerk. In 1916, The San Francisco Call & Post said the younger brother of former Heavyweight Champion Gentleman Jim Corbett, had a way of dealing with fans who wanted to talk to him about his brother’s prowess in the ring—he would tell them:
Corbett
“They tell me he was a great fighter; you see, I don’t know. I only saw him in the ring twice; I guess he wasn’t fighting then. (Bob) Fitzsimmons won the first time and Jeff (Jim Jeffries) knocked him out the second time. But they tell me he was some fighter.”
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