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Cap Anson picks his all-time team

ByThis Day in Baseball

Acknowledging that Cobb‚ Speaker‚ and Collins are all good ball players‚ Cap Anson picks his all-time team‚ leaving them off. In the current issue of TSN‚ Anson selects C-Buck Ewing and King Kelly; P-Amos Rusie‚ John Clarkson‚ Jim McCormick; 1B-himself; 2B-Fred Pfeffer; 3B-Ed Williamson; SS-Ross Barnes; OF-Bill Lange‚ George Gore‚ Jimmy Ryan‚ and Hugh Duffy.

Bill Dahlen

A Chicago, IL sportswriter quoted in the New York Clipper notes that “Bill Dahlen is one of the few now in the National League who came blood new from a punky little league and became a good thing at first jump.” Indeed, Dahlen will eventually accumulate 2,460 hits and a .272 average over a 21-year major league career.

ByThis Day in Baseball

1896 – A Chicago, IL sportswriter quoted in the New York Clipper notes that “Bill Dahlen is one of the few now in the National League who came blood new from a punky little league and became a good thing at first jump.” Indeed, Dahlen will eventually accumulate 2,460 hits and a .272 average over a 21-year major league career.

local retailers distributed discount coupons that blended the design of paper money with images of popular baseball teams to help advertise their establishments.
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local retailers distributed discount coupons that blended the design of paper money with images of popular baseball teams to help advertise their establishments.

ByThis Day in Baseball

  October 1, 1889 Another example of the highly desirable baseball “currency” of the late 1800s, when various local retailers distributed discount coupons that blended the design of paper money with images of popular baseball teams to help advertise their establishments. This piece, advertising the Wm. Stuart Furniture, Carpet and Stove store of Baltimore, Md…