100 years ago, 1919, as is well known to classic baseball fans, was the season of the infamous Black Sox Scandal. As an interesting preface to that… Read more “Pastime Press: Shoeless Joe Jackson and the WWI draft, Chicago Tribune/Sporting News 1918/1919”
Category: Chicago White Sox
Art of the Game: Ty Cobb, by Clare Briggs of the Chicago Tribune
Wednesday, May 10, 1911, the Chicago Tribune, and cartoonist Clare Briggs expresses the Chicago fans’ displeasure at Ty Cobb’s recent dominance of their local heroes, and of… Read more “Art of the Game: Ty Cobb, by Clare Briggs of the Chicago Tribune”
Pastime Portraiture: Nellie Fox
Nellie Fox, Yankee Stadium, Sunday, June 19, 1955. The Pale Hose would drop a doubleheader to the Yanks that day, with 2B Fox going 3-8 with a… Read more “Pastime Portraiture: Nellie Fox”
Behind the Bag 