Hello baseball fans! These pages list general posts relating to the best sport in the world. Enjoy.
September 1. ‘Orator’ Jim O’Rourke is born in 1850.
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September 1, 1850. James ‘Orator’ O’Rourke is born. Portrait of O’Rourke taken for a championship dinner program put on by the New York Giants after winning the ‘World Series’ of…
August 31. Ray Dandridge is born in 1913.
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August 31, 1913. Ray Dandridge is born. The image of Ray Dandridge of the Marianao Tigers baseball club is used to promote the election of a candidate for Mayor in…
August 30. Ted Williams is born in 1918.
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August 30, 1918. Ted Williams is born. Williams is photographed in the on deck circle swinging multiple bats.
August 29. Billy Cox is born in 1919.
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August 29, 1919. Billy Cox is born. Cox is in a photographic batting pose while playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1952.
August 28. Aaron Ward is born in 1896.
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August 28, 1896. Aaron Ward is born. News photo of Aaron Ward doing some fielding work for the New York Yankees in 1922.
August 27. Joe Cunningham is born in 1931.
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August 27, 1931. Joe Cunningham is born. Cunningham swinging a bat for the St. Louis Cardinals in 1959.
August 26. Adrian Zabala is born in 1916.
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August 26, 1916. Adrian Zabala is born. Zabala is photographed in Cuba sometime around his 20th birthday.
August 25. Rollie Fingers is born in 1946.
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August 25, 1946. Rollie Fingers is born. Photo of Fingers in action with the Oakland Athletics in 1972.
August 23. George Stacey Davis is born in 1870.
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August 23, 1870. George Stacey Davis is born. Honest Long Cut cigarette premium of Davis while with the New York Giants in 1894.
August 19. Tex Carleton is born in 1906.
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August 19, 1906. Tex Carleton is born. Carleton warming up before a game with the Chicago Cubs in 1936.
August 17. Rudy York is born in 1913.
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August 17, 1913. Rudy York is born. York is putting on his catcher’s gear for the Detroit Tigers, circa 1940.
August 14. Paul Dean is born in 1912.
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August 14, 1912. Daffy Dean is born. Photographed, as usual, with his famous brother Dizzy, Paul, who was Daffy, is on the left.
August 11. Bobo Newsome is born in 1907.
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August 11, 1907. Bobo Newsome is born. Newsome smiles in his Washington Senators uniform in 1943.
August 10. Willie Wells is born in 1905.
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August 10, 1905. Willie Wells is born. Wells from a group shot while with the Memphis Red Sox in 1948.
August 9. Claude Osteen is born in 1939.
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August 9, 1939. Claude Osteen is born. Osteen is the subject of a Los Angeles Dodger postcard issued in the late 1960s.
