Hello baseball fans! These pages list general posts relating to the best sport in the world. Enjoy.
October 26. Dick Hoblitzel is born in 1889.
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October 26, 1889. Dick Hoblitzel is born. Hoblitzel is shown as a card in the game deck from the Tom Barker set, 1911.
October 21. Whitey Ford is born in 1928.
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October 21, 1928. Whitey Ford is born. Ford is the subject of this Bowman gum card from 1953.
October 20. Sam Hughes is born in 1910.
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October 20, 1910. Sam Hughes is born. Hughes is photographed in his Baltimore Elite Giants uniform, circa 1940.
October 19. Mordecai ‘Three Finger’ Brown is born in 1878.
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October 19, 1878. Three Finger Brown is born. Mordecai Brown is the subject of this c.1910 postcard, shown in a pitching pose with the St. Louis of the Federal League.
October 18. Candy Cummings is born in 1848.
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October 18, 1848. Candy Cummings is born. In his Star of Brooklyn uniform, Candy Cummings poses for this tintype circa 1869.
October 17. Junior Gilliam is born in 1928.
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October 17, 1928. Junior Gilliam is born. Portrait of Gilliam with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
October 16. Goose Goslin is born in 1900.
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October 16, 1900. Goose Goslin is born. Leon Goslin poses with a pet goose, while in Detroit circa 1935.
October 15. Mel Harder is born in 1909.
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October 15, 1909. Mel Harder is born. Mel Harder is photographed pitching for the Cleveland Indians.
October 14. Oscar Charleston is born in 1896.
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October 14, 1896. Oscar Charleston is born. Charleston’s cigarette card was issued in 1924 in Havana, Cuba by the Tomas Guttierrez tobacco company.
October 13. Eddie Mathews is born in 1931.
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October 13, 1931. Eddie Mathews is born. Mathews is the cover feature for Street & Smith’s baseball yearbook for 1954.
October 12. Joe Cronin is born in 1906.
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October 12, 1906. Joe Cronin is born. Joe Cronin appears in a candid photograph from his days with the Washington Senators.
October 11. Yale Murphy is born in 1869.
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October 11, 1869. Yale Murphy is born. Murphy appears on the cover of The New York Five Cent Library, issued in 1882.
October 10. Wally Berger is born in 1905.
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October 10, 1905. Wally Berger is born. Wally Berger has just made contact during batting practice for the Cincinnati Reds in 1939.
October 9. Rube Marquard is born in 1886.
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October 9, 1886. Rube Marquard is born. Marquard is the cover boy for a Partridge Sporting Goods catalog from 1918.
October 8. Jim Conway is born in 1858.
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October 8, 1858. Jim Conway is born. Full figure tintype of Jim Conway around 1885.
