In honor of the World Series, a friend posted a photograph of her father (taken about 1935) with two early San Antonio names prominent. The photo of Daniel Bernhard Grassel shows him wearing a wool ...

Ninety years ago, the baseball world was stunned as an 18-year female pitcher named Virne Beatrice “Jackie” Mitchell of Chattanooga signed a minor league contract with the hometown Lookouts. Several ...

Paul Bruce of Cocoa Beach is a lifelong baseball fan, and for an energetic, interesting man of 96, that goes back a long way. He remembers fondly his many baseball experiences when he was a kid back ...

The game of baseball seemed grandly American in the 1930s. Players had cherubic names — Birdie and Schoolboy, sounding like characters from a Broadway musical. Beneath the good times, though, breathed ...

I have an old family picture of my uncle Jose R. Briseno, who was born in 1920 and lived on the West Side during the 1930s. The photo shows my uncle and two friends at a baseball stadium in San ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Baseball signed by the 1930 St. Louis ...

Cooperstown is linked with two young, flame-throwing pitchers for the 1939 Cleveland Indians. One was born there and the other was enshrined there. All right, they are two different cities with the ...

The 1930s baseball diamond in Ontario that was a filming site for “A League of Their Own” may not be rebuilt. The original canopied grandstand at Jay Littleton Ball Park burned to the ground in a ...

Gray's Field, near Owings in northern Calvert County, has been in continuous use for athletics and recreation since the 1930s. Now a local group -- the Gray's Field Foundation -- has formed to raise ...