GameofBrawl

Other images from "A Game of Brawl"

‘Inside ball’: Cartoon image of a thuggish Baltimore Orioles player published during the
August Baltimore-Boston series in Boston.
(Boston Globe)

Ned Hanlon, brainy manager of the widely reviled Baltimore Orioles.
(Transcendental Graphics)

Four future Hall of Famers who comprised the heart and soul of the Orioles: Back: Willie
Keeler and John McGraw. Front: Joe Kelley and Hughie Jennings.
(Boston Public Library)

Interior view of 3rd Base, circa 1900, complete with bat and ball chandeliers.
(Boston Public Library)

‘C arpenter Calls The Cops': Aided by three police officers, fill-in umpire Bob Carpenter
enforces his ruling against the Orioles during the final game of the August series.
(Boston Journal)

‘Nuf Ced’ McGreevy
(Boston Public Library)

Amos Rusie, The Hoosier Thunderbolt, whose season-long 1896 holdout
prompted league owners to band against Giants owner Andrew Freedman.
(Baseball Hall of Fame)

National League club owners and officials gather in February of 1897 for a conference on
the Rusie situation. Among those pictured are League President Nick Young (seated,
center), and Chris Von Der Ahe, Ned Hanlon, Frank DeHaas Robison and Harry Von Der
Horst (standing, second through fifth from left, respectively).
(Transcendental Graphics)

The pugnacious Tim Hurst, who maintained his reputation as an umpiring force despite being
arrested in both Cleveland and Cincinnati during the 1897 season.
(Transcendental Graphics)

Jack Sheridan, whose umpiring career was abruptly interrupted in the summer of 1897 when
he could not take the on-field abuse.
(Baseball Hall of Fame)

Thomas Lynch, the urbane umpire who refused to work doubleheaders and later rose to the
presidency of the National League.
(Baseball Hall of Fame)

Orioles first baseman Dirty Jack Doyle. His language, said the Sporting News, would
embarrass “even hardened users of profanity.”
(Baseball Hall of Fame)

Beaneaters infield: Considered by some the best infield of the 19th Century, clockwise from
top: Boston’s Fred Tenney, Herman Long, Jimmy Collins and Bobby Lowe.
(Boston Public Library)

When this formal portrait was taken in 1900, Louis Sockalexis was a 28-year-old baseball
has-been. For three months of the 1897 season, he had been the talk of all of baseball.
(Baseball Hall of Fame)

Fisticuffs: This woodcut depicts the fisticuffs between umpire Lynch and Jack Doyle that
marked Baltimore’s second visit to Boston in August.
(Boston Journal)

Rooters Depart: Woodcut depicting the delegation of Rooters entraining at Park Square
Station the evening of Sept. 23, 1897.
(Boston Globe)

‘Standing alone’: The baseball landscape of 1897: The Bostons stand poised to challenged
the hated champion Orioles (background) across a field littered with the bodies of their
mutually dispatched opponents.
(Boston Globe)

‘At Eutaw House’: It is the morning of Saturday, Sept. 25, 1897. Outside the Eutaw House,
the visiting Beaneaters, backed by more than 125 of their “Rooters” and a hired band
(balcony) pose for a group picture. The superstitious Billy Hamilton blamed this picture for
Boston’s loss that afternoon.
(Boston Public Library)

‘Louis Watson’: Flag and beanpot in hand, Louis Watson leads the Rooters in cheers.
(Boston Public Library)

Marty Bergen, moody catcher for the Boston Beaneaters, who in an apparent insane fit
bludgeoned his wife and children, then slit his own throat in January of 1900.
(Boston Globe)