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 The following is a two-part story on the old Baltimore Orioles and what happened to them.

June 21, 2009
Baseball Pedigree

 1. President Theodore Roosevelt invited his home town jamor league baseball team, the New York Highlanders, to the White House. Two of the Highlanders went on to gain prominence with the Washington Senators and are now in the Baseball Hall of Fame:

Clark Griffith became manager of the Senators in 1912, then purchased the team.

Jack Chesbro, one of the game's best hurlers, was the Senators' pitching coach in 924.

 2. The Highlanders were originally the Baltimore Orioles, one of the top National League teams until they dropped them, and four others, in 1899.

The National League retained eight teams that would remain in place until 1953: Philadelphia, Boston, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Brooklyn, Cincinnati, New York, and Chicago.

 3. Byron Bancroft Johnson, head of the Western League, changed its name to the American League in 1900. Then, he took over the Orioles' franchise and began to lure top players such as John McGraw and Cy Young away from the National League.
In 1901 he announced, "The American League is now a major league with teams in these cities!"
Shown on the map are: Milwaukee*, Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis, Boston, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington.

*Johnson moved the Milwaukee franchise to St. Louis in 1902. The St. Louis Browns became the current Baltimore Orioles in 1954.

 4. Eager for a team in New York, Johnson was willing to sell the Orioles to anybody who could come up with the cash.

The buyers turned out to be a professional gambler and a former corrupt Chief of Police of the City of New York.

continued...



June 29, 2009
Last of two parts about the story of the original Baltimore Orioles and the New York Highlanders
This week: The Burglars' Ball Club
  Panels on the top row:
1. In 1903 Ban Johnson, President of the American League, sold the Baltimore Oriolses franchise for $18,000 to a pair of shady characters in New York.
(Characters in the drawing from left: Johnson, "Big Bill" Devery, and Frankie Farrell)
2. "Big Bill" Devery made a small fortune on graft and payoffs as Chief of the New York City Police Department.
3. Frankie Farrell was part owner of about 250 poll rooms and a swanky gambling joint at 33rd and 5th Avenue,
4. now the site of the Empire State Building.
5.Devery and Farrell leased ground from the New York Institute and built a ball park at 168th and Broadway. It was the highest point in the city, which inspired the name of

   Panels on the bottom row:
6. the team...the New York Highlanders.
7. Aware of the owners' reputations, the fans nicknamed the team the "Burglars."
8. Having difficulty fitting "Highlanders" into the traditional single column headline, sports editors began to refer to the team as
9.
the Yankees!
10. On January 29, 1915 Farrell and Devery sold the Yankees to brewery owner Colonel Jacob Ruppert and Col. Tillinghast L'Hommedieu Huston for $460.000.

Note in the background is the name of the beer which Ruppert produced, Knickerbocker Beer.



 
The Games Presidents Play--Sports and the Presidency by John Sayle Watterson 
The Games Presidents Play provides a new way to view the American presidency. Looking at the athletic strengths, feats, and shortcomings of our presidents, John Sayle Watterson explores not only their health, physical attributes, personalities, and sports IQs, but also the increasing trend of Americans in the past century to equate sporting achievements with courage, manliness, and political competence.
"Sports historian Watterson suggests that presidents' athletic endeavors reveal a lot about their actions in office... An enjoyable study of politics and culture." -- Publishers Weekly
"Watterson's history rises above trivia... Abundantly anecdotal... A wry and perceptive work." -- Booklist
7" x 9½" 402 pages, index, photos, hardbound
#497 Games Presidents Play $29.95

 
Deadball Stars of the American League
Edited by David Jones with a foreword by Keith Olbermann
The dead-ball era is a baseball term used to describe the period between 1900 (though some date it to the beginning of baseball) and the emergence of Babe Ruth as a power hitter in 1919. In 1919, Ruth hit a then-league record 29 home runs, a spectacular feat at that time. The dead-ball era refers to a period in baseball characterized by low-scoring games and a lack of home runs. The lowest league run average in history was in 1908, when only 3.4 runs were scored per game. This book chronicles the eight original teams in the American league with detailed biographies of many of its major players.
8½" x 10½" 416 pages, 200 photos, index, paperbound
#498 Deadball Stars $24.95


Here are two volumes containing reproductions of Flashbacks cartoons:

 
 A Cartoon of the District of Columbia Flashbacks Volume One Patrick M. Reynolds brings history to life with a sense of humor. His exciting drawings put you on the scene with the conflicts, madness, plus the wheeling and dealing that resulted in the location and construction of the U.S. capital city. This book covers the early history of DC from 1776 to 1863. You'll be surprised at how many cities served as the U.S. capital; you'll be amazed that the city was built--despite all the bickering, petty jealousies, and down-right stupidity.
11¾" x 7½" 106 pages, full color illustrations, index,
paperbound ISBN 0-932514-31-6
#F1 Cartoon History of DC $14.95

 
DC Neighborhoods Flashbacks Vol. Two Artist-writer Patrick M. Reynolds takes you to the Washington that tourists seldom see The U.S. capital expanded with the growth of public transportation into such areas as Shepard Park, Takoma Park, Chevy Chase, Kalorama, Dupont Circle, Adams Morgan, Capital Hill, LeDroit Park, Tenleytown, Brookland, and others. Stories in this book go back to the explorations of Capt. John Smith in the 1600s and the Indian Wars of early Virginia, continuing into the 20th century with the introduction of the cherry trees to Washington and the end of segregation in public schools.
11¾" x 7½" 106 pages, full color illustrations, index, paperbound ISBN 0-932514-33-2
#F2 Cartoon History of DC $14.95

Previous weeks' stories and references:
Animals...Atomic Bomb....Arlington National Cemetery...Aviation History....Black History....Children...Constitution-How & Why we got it...Civil War... Autocamping...American Presidency...Auto Racing...Baseball History...the Bible & the Presidency...Blizzard of 1888...Bubble Houses...Chinese...Combat Artists...The CCCs Civilian Conservation Corps...Declaration of Independence...DC Neighborhoods...The Ghost Army of WWII... Artists in War The Limb Maker...Duke Ellington...Ferries Across the Chessie .. Food History,,, HOLIDAYS...German Americans...Italian Americans...The Italian Crisis...
Ninian Beall Sequence.....UFOs Over Washington... Culpeper of Virginia...The Spanish Flu Epidemic of 1918...Indians of the Eastern Shore of MD & VA... Pirates on the Chesapeake...Chesapeake Beach...Quiltmaking...Chesapeake Bay Stories...Ghost stories... Maryland History...Music History...Naval History (Seebees, Armed Guard, etc)...Rock & Roll History...Hoover Airport....Robert Smalls....Slavery...Swampoodle...Sports...Origins of Words & Phrases...Inventions...Railroads...Treaty of Paris...Virginia History...Washington, DC History...Nazis in America...Wilkes Expedition...Stamps...Women...Girl Scouts...V-Mail...Word Origins

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