The Dead Ball Era, 1900-1920
Although President Theodore Roosevelt
preferred football and outdoor activities such as hunting to
baseball (rumor was he could not hit the curve), the sport's
dominance in the American mind led to its use by cartoonists.
Cartoon by Clifford Berryman, US National
Archives, NWL-46-BERRYMAN-A011.
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Connie Mack longtime manager of the Philadelphia Athletics is introduced in second feature of the Library of Congress, Today in History for December 22.
The Sporting News also offers a sample of the work of the renown baseball photographer, Charles M. Conlon whose work spanned the early 20th century.
The Library of Congress exhibition, Baseball Cards from, 1870 to 1914 contains over two thousand images of the stars and teams from this period. Be prepared to get hooked.
The Library of Congress and Chicago Historical Society exhibit Photographs from the Chicago Daily News offers a host of baseball images of parks and personalities such as Babe Ruth, Kenesaw Landis, and others from 1900-1933.
The Society of American Baseball Research's The Business of Baseball site offers a copy of the original American and National League agreement of 1903 and the National Agreement of that year.
The evolution of baseball journalism can be
followed in The Sporting News feature
History of the Sporting News which outlines that key publication from the 1880s
to the present. Individual baseball writers of note are sketched
in the The J. G. Taylor Spink
award honorees at the Hall of Fame site. Spink was the founder of
The Sporting News.
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This page was last updated
March 30, 2005
Background image, an old-timer (George
Herman Ruth)
takes his cuts. during the 1940s.Photo provided by William R.
Conroy.