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Cricket And Base Ball In Kansas, 1860–1869, Mark E. Eberle
Cricket And Base Ball In Kansas, 1860–1869, Mark E. Eberle
Mark E. Eberle
During the 1860s, cricket clubs were organized before the first baseball clubs in Kansas. Following the US Civil War, baseball grew in popularity, and soldiers and immigrants from the Northeast and Midwest brought the sport with them to the state. This essay describes the first two cricket clubs in Kansas—the Leavenworth Occidental Cricket Club and the Wyandotte City Cricket Club—and the transition to baseball.
The Color Line In Kansas Baseball And The “Champion Stars” Of Fort Scott, 1874–1878, Mark E. Eberle
The Color Line In Kansas Baseball And The “Champion Stars” Of Fort Scott, 1874–1878, Mark E. Eberle
Mark E. Eberle
Fort Scott was represented by the second baseball team in Kansas to join the National Association of Base-Ball Players in 1866. The city was also the site of the state’s first known baseball games between segregated teams of black and white players. In 1874 and 1877, a black baseball team named the Star Base Ball Club claimed the informal city championship of Fort Scott. This essay describes the first games between black and white teams in Kansas, the early history of baseball in Fort Scott, and the history of the Star Base Ball Club during the 1870s.
Seventh Us Cavalry Base Ball In Kansas, 1868–1870, Mark E. Eberle
Seventh Us Cavalry Base Ball In Kansas, 1868–1870, Mark E. Eberle
Mark E. Eberle
From 1868 through 1870, the Seventh US Cavalry and other military units played baseball in Kansas at their various posts and in the field. Details of several games were reported in local newspapers, as well as the New York Clipper. The Seventh Cavalry clubs, most notably Captain Frederick Benteen’s Company H, continued to play through 1875 while stationed in the South and the Dakota Territory, before the regiment was decimated at the Battle of Little Bighorn (Greasy Grass) in 1876. This essay focuses on the Seventh Cavalry’s baseball experiences in Kansas. A list of known games played by the …
Deaf Baseball Players In Kansas And Kansas City, 1878–1911, Mark E. Eberle
Deaf Baseball Players In Kansas And Kansas City, 1878–1911, Mark E. Eberle
Mark E. Eberle
During the late 1800s and early 1900s, William Hoy and Luther Taylor were well-known baseball players in the major leagues. Hoy and Taylor were also deaf. Consequently, they were given the same inappropriate nickname—Dummy. Several other deaf ballplayers enjoyed careers in the major and minor leagues, as well as on other professional teams. This narrative focuses on the lesser-known aspects of the early history of deaf baseball players and teams, with an emphasis on Kansas. It opens with the experiences of students at the Kansas State School for the Deaf at the end of the nineteenth century, where Luther Taylor …
Toward A Black Baseball League For Kansas City, 1890–1916: Proposals And Challenges, Mark E. Eberle
Toward A Black Baseball League For Kansas City, 1890–1916: Proposals And Challenges, Mark E. Eberle
Mark E. Eberle
Studies of Negro Leagues baseball from 1920 through the 1950s address various aspects of the organization and operation of the leagues, and provide portraits of the teams, players, and other prominent individuals. However, there were earlier attempts by black teams to organize leagues during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Given the many proposed and short-lived black leagues prior to 1920, the focus of this monograph is the proposals that included clubs from Kansas City. None of the leagues proposed before the First World War survived beyond its inaugural season, but the number of proposals offered over three decades reflects …
Who’S On First? Kansas City’S Female Baseball Stars, 1899–1929, Mark E. Eberle
Who’S On First? Kansas City’S Female Baseball Stars, 1899–1929, Mark E. Eberle
Mark E. Eberle
Although female players were typically excluded from formal baseball teams, teams consisting entirely or partly of female players were organized across the country as early as the mid-1800s. The first female baseball club in Kansas and adjacent states was organized in Wichita in 1873. These early teams predated the arrival of the barnstorming teams with female players and usually one or more male players, who were sometimes disguised as women. Female players on most of these early traveling teams wore bloomers, and the teams were referred to as “bloomer girls.” Women on later teams wore traditional baseball uniforms and objected …
Evans’ All-Nations And Mayetta Indians Baseball, 1917, Mark E. Eberle
Evans’ All-Nations And Mayetta Indians Baseball, 1917, Mark E. Eberle
Mark E. Eberle
On 4 April 1917, the United States declared war on Germany and prepared to enter what would later be referred to as the First World War. Those preparations would last through the summer, as many young men spent one last season playing baseball before leaving for Europe. Among these teams in northeastern Kansas were two local teams not composed solely of white players. The Evans’ All-Nations was an integrated team in Horton composed of white, black, American Indian, and possibly Mexican players. Jesse Evans, a local black barber, managed the team. About 25 miles southwest of Horton, on the Prairie …
Black Baseball In Kansas City, 1870–1899, Mark E. Eberle
Black Baseball In Kansas City, 1870–1899, Mark E. Eberle
Mark E. Eberle
The Kansas City Monarchs, a black baseball team founded by J.L. Wilkinson in 1920, is one of the storied franchises of Negro Leagues history. The story of black baseball clubs and players in Kansas City prior to the First World War is less known, yet it forms the foundation on which the 1920 Monarchs were established. The story of early black baseball in Kansas City from 1870 through 1899 is summarized here. Among the clubs to take the field were the Kansas City Maroons and their star catcher, Frank Maupin. Former classmates organized the Lincoln High Schools in 1899, who …
George William Castone: An Integrated Baseball Life At The Close Of The Nineteenth Century, Mark E. Eberle
George William Castone: An Integrated Baseball Life At The Close Of The Nineteenth Century, Mark E. Eberle
Mark E. Eberle
George William Castone was a black baseball player during the 1880s and 1890s. He pitched for integrated town teams and minor league teams, as well as black clubs, such as the Lincoln Giants in Nebraska and the Cuban Giants in the northeastern United States. Most of his time on the diamond was spent in Colorado, Kansas, and Nebraska, but Castone also played on an otherwise white barnstorming team organized in Salt Lake City that traveled through Montana, Oregon, and California. He was among the few black players on minor league teams in the Colorado State League in 1889 and the …