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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
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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.
Evans’ All-Nations And Mayetta Indians Baseball, 1917, Mark E. Eberle
Evans’ All-Nations And Mayetta Indians Baseball, 1917, Mark E. Eberle
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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 …
Seventh Us Cavalry Base Ball In Kansas, 1868–1870, Mark E. Eberle
Seventh Us Cavalry Base Ball In Kansas, 1868–1870, Mark E. Eberle
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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 …
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
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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 …
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
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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 …
Cricket And Base Ball In Kansas, 1860–1869, Mark E. Eberle
Cricket And Base Ball In Kansas, 1860–1869, Mark E. Eberle
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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.
Inaugural Season Of Intercity Base Ball In Leavenworth And Kansas City, 1866: Frontiers And Antelopes, Mark E. Eberle
Inaugural Season Of Intercity Base Ball In Leavenworth And Kansas City, 1866: Frontiers And Antelopes, Mark E. Eberle
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The inaugural year for baseball played among formally organized base ball clubs (BBC) in Kansas and in Kansas City, Missouri was 1866. Little has been written about the events of that year other than retellings and embellishments of a myth created in 1927 about James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok umpiring a game between the Kansas City Antelopes and Atchison Pomeroys to prevent violence during the contest. In truth, the first club organized in the area by local business owners and other professionals was the Frontier Base Ball Club of Leavenworth in November 1865. A few other clubs were organized in …
Bert Wakefield And The End Of Integrated Minor League Baseball In Kansas, Mark E. Eberle
Bert Wakefield And The End Of Integrated Minor League Baseball In Kansas, Mark E. Eberle
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Bert Wakefield was a lifelong resident of Troy, Kansas, where he was an active member of the community—business owner, member of social organizations, and musician. Wakefield was also an African American who played on several integrated and black baseball teams through the 1890s and early 1900s, including the Chicago Unions, Chicago Union Giants, Algona (Iowa) Brownies, Renville (Minnesota) All-Stars, and the original Kansas City Monarchs. In addition, Wakefield served as a captain of the mostly white Troy minor league team in the Kansas State League in 1895. In this role, he joined Bud Fowler, who captained minor league teams in …
Eisenhower, Wilson, And Professional Baseball In Kansas, Mark E. Eberle
Eisenhower, Wilson, And Professional Baseball In Kansas, Mark E. Eberle
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Ever since General Dwight David Eisenhower mentioned in 1945 that he had played professional baseball under a pseudonym Wilson sometime after his 1909 graduation from Abilene High School, there have been attempts to document this assertion. Yet, he offered little detail for researchers to follow, not even the team or year. If true, however, it has been speculated this would have made him ineligible for intercollegiate competition in 1911-1915 while he attended the US Military Academy at West Point, New York, where he played on the football team. Thus, interest in the story has persisted. Newspaper accounts of baseball mention …
Early Baseball And Historic Liberty Park Stadium In Sedalia, Missouri, Mark E. Eberle
Early Baseball And Historic Liberty Park Stadium In Sedalia, Missouri, Mark E. Eberle
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Small baseball parks with grandstands constructed prior to the Second World War continue to be lost around the country, and much of the sport’s history is lost with them. Missouri has a few such ballparks remaining within its borders, including those in Carthage, Hannibal, and St. Joseph. In addition, Sedalia has what is arguably one of the finest examples in the nation of a small ballpark with an historic wooden grandstand constructed in 1937–1938 that continues to serve its original purpose. This article is a brief introduction to baseball in Sedalia from the end of the Civil War through the …
Lighthouse On The Plains: Fort Hays State University, 1902-2002, James L. Forsythe
Lighthouse On The Plains: Fort Hays State University, 1902-2002, James L. Forsythe
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Fort Hays State University is located at Hays, Ellis County, Kansas. It is approximately 250 miles west of Kansas City, Missouri, and 325 miles east of Denver, Colorado. It was the farthest west of any of the schools in the Central High Plains when it was founded. The university serves a vast area of western Kansas that is approximately 250 miles long and 225 miles deep. It also attracts students from contiguous counties in Nebraska, Colorado, and Oklahoma. The constituency that once was essentially agrarian has changed as the new economy of the world has changed. More non-traditional and international …