Hello baseball fans! These pages list general posts relating to the best sport in the world. Enjoy.
December 31. King Kelly is born in 1857.
Posted
December 31, 1857. Joseph ‘King’ Kelly is born. Cartoon advertising card with a characature of King Kelly catching, from 1887, Tobin Litho Company.
December 30. Sandy Koufax is born in 1935.
Posted
December 30, 1935. Sandy Koufax is born. Sandy Koufax celebrates a victory as a Brooklyn Dodger in 1957.
December 29. Frank Delahanty is born in 1882.
Posted
December 29, 1882. Frank Delahanty is born in 1882. Portrait of Frank Delahanty from a 1907 fold-out postcard for the New York Highlanders in 1907.
December 28. Ted Lyons is born in 1900.
Posted
December 28, 1900. Ted Lyons is born. Ted Lyons checks out a new pitching machine with the White Sox, circa 1930.
December 27. Henry Kimbro is born in 1912.
Posted
December 27, 1912. Henry Kimbro is born. Henry Kimbro in a Cuban candy card from the mid-1940s in Havana.
December 26. Carlton Fisk is born in 1947.
Posted
December 26, 1947. Carlton Fisk is born. Carlton Fisk is photographed in action at home plate in Fenway Park in the mid-1970s.
December 25. Quincy Trouppe is born in 1912.
Posted
December 25, 1912. Quincy Trouppe is born. An Alcalde political premium features Quincy Trouppe with the Marianao Club in Havana.
December 24. Frank Taveras is born in 1949.
Posted
December 24, 1949. Frank Taveras is born in 1949. Frank Taveras in action with the New York Mets in 1980.
December 23. Fritz Maisel is born in 1889.
Posted
December 23, 1889. Fritz Maisel is born. Fritz Maisel as a New York Yankee in 1915.
December 22. Cornelius McGillicuddy is born in 1862.
Posted
December 22, 1862. Connie Mack is born. Connie Mack with his two sons, Earle and Connie, Junior at the 1930 World Series.
December 21. Josh Gibson is born in 1911.
Posted
December 21, 1911. Josh Gibson is born. Josh Gibson action photograph from the Negro National League in Forbes Field, Pittsburgh.
December 20. Fred Merkle is born in 1888.
Posted
December 20, 1888. Fred Merkle is born. Portrait of Fred Merkle in West Side Park in Chicago in 1918.
December 19. Ramon Herrera is born in 1897.
Posted
December 19, 1897. Ramon Herrera is born. Ramon Herrera poses with Armando Marsans (left)
December 18. Ty Cobb is born in 1886.
Posted
December 18, 1886. Ty Cobb is born. Cracker Jack card of Ty Cobb from 1914.
December 17. Oscar Tuero is born in 1893.
Posted
December 17, 1893. Oscar Tuero is born. Portrait of Tuero in Almendares Park in Havana, Cuba in 1924.
