The Old Ball Game (32 page)

Mathewson on,
193

in World Series of 1905,
116
–22

Philadelphia team,
10

“pinch hitter,”
129
,
137

Pinkerton's,
161

pitchers,
47
,
50
–51,
113
,
138

skills required of,
14

stationing,
40
–41

pitching,
67
,
138

Pittsburgh,
16
,
107
,
141

Pittsburgh Pirates,
43
,
68
,
105
,
139

Pius X, Pope,
174

Plank, Eddie,
43
,
118
,
164
,
190

Po Reilly's,
18
.
See also
Sons of Erin

poems,
49
–50,
137
–38

Polo Grounds,
5
,
9
,
17
–18,
57
,
180
,
189
–91,
202
.
see also
World Series

attendance at,
5

record crowd,
162

benefit game on Sundays at,
132

Blanche McGraw at,
224

capacity,
107

Cubs
vs.
Giants at,
145
–47

description,
103

final Giants' game at,
224

finances,
102

fire that took down,
154

history,
102
–3

Mathewson and McGraw's first encounter at,
1
,
3

McGraw at,
97
,
107
,
214

McGraw injured at,
70
–71

photographs of,
22

1908 playoffs with Cubs,
140

rebuilt after fire,
154

tore down,
155

vendors at,
102

Pond, Arlie,
83
,
85

postseason,
16

product endorsements,
130
,
131

profanity,
28
,
30
,
109

Protestantism,
51
,
64

Pulliam, Harry,
89
,
108
,
110
,
142
–44,
148

“purification plan,”
29

Rader, Benjamin,
133

Raymond, Bugs,
157
–58,
177

Raymond, Mrs.,
158

Reiser, Reverend Mr.,
82
–83

religious conflict,
51
–52,
64

Rice, Grantland,
133
,
155

Rickey, Branch,
193
,
216

Roaring Twenties,
95
–98,
113

Robinson, Brooks,
134

Robinson, David,
222

Robinson, Ray,
124

Robinson, Wilbert “Uncle Robbie,”
20

as captain,
23

Johnson and,
44

McGraw and,
7
–8,
10
,
23
,
24
,
86
,
87
,
160
,
191
,
212

Rockne, Knute,
210

Roosevelt, Theodore,
37
,
48

Rose, Pete,
134

Rothstein, Arnold,
152

Roush, Edd,
195
–96

Rowland, Pants,
192

Royal Rooters,
179
–82

“Rubber Leg” (Mathewson),
33

Runyon, Damon,
128
,
158

Rusie, Amos,
152

Russell, Lillian,
92

Ruth, George Herman “Babe,”
99
,
115
,
133
,
153

Cobb and,
219

fame and popularity,
207
–10

home runs,
208
,
209
,
212
–13

Mathewson on,
209

McGraw and,
208
,
209
,
219

McGraw on,
114

and New York of the Roaring Twenties,
95

photograph of,
208

as “Sultan of Swat,”
208
,
210

salaries,
153

Saranac Lake,
216
–19,
223

Savannah,
64
,
65

scalpers,
179

scoreboards, electric,
179

“senior circuit,”
44

Series,
107

Seybold, Socks,
119

Seymour, Cy,
147

Shaw, George Bernard,
211

Shibe Park,
154
,
167
,
190

Sindall, James,
92
,
93

Sloan, Tod,
152

Sloppy Joe's,
80
,
171

Smith, Earl,
159

Smith, Heinie,
51
,
52

Smith, Jennie,
179

Smith, “Phenomenal John,”
37
–38

Smokey (trainer),
159

Snodgrass, Fred “Snow,”
165
,
182
,
184
–88,
191

death,
188

photograph of,
186

soccer,
15

Solomon, Burt,
86

Solomon, Mark,
99

Sons of Erin,
19

Spanish-American War,
17

Speaker, Tris (“Grey Eagle”),
114
,
184

Sporting News
,
15

sports

baseball compared with other,
12
–15

favored individual spectator,
14
–15

professional,
58

sports heroes,
209
–10,
221
–22

sportsmanship,
51
,
110

St. Louis,
9
,
32
,
47

St. Louis Brown Stockings,
16
.
See also
Von der Ahe

St. Louis Cardinals,
5
,
8
,
10

Stahl, Jake,
182
–84

Steinfeldt, Harry,
109

Stengel, Charles Dillon “Casey,”
156
,
199

Stoughton, Jane,
39

Strang, Sammy,
155

Stratemeyer, Edward,
128

strikeouts,
41

Sullivan, John L.,
19
,
112

Sullivan, Mark,
11
,
91

“syndicate baseball,”
17

Taft, William Howard,
153
–54

“Take Me Out to the Ball Game,”
50
,
102

Tammany,
56
,
63

“Tammany Hall team,”
4

Taunton, Massachusetts,
38

Taylor, Dummy,
69
–71,
105
,
106
,
173
,
210

Tebeau, Oliver Wendell “Patsy,”
8

Ten-Minute Club,
31

Tenney, Fred,
31
,
139

Terry, Bill,
213
,
214

Terry, Umpire,
8

Tesreau, Jeff,
180
,
187

Thayer, Ernest,
49
,
50

Thomson, Bobby,
103
,
145

Thorpe, Jim,
14
,
37
,
157

Three-Fingered.
See
Brown, Mordecai Peter Centennial

Tilden, Big Bill,
210

Tilzer, Albert Von,
50

Times Square, electric scoreboard in,
179

Tinker, Joe,
147

Tokohama, Chief,
99

Treadway, George,
23

Troy Haymakers,
103

Truxton,
76
,
80
,
81
,
86

tuberculosis (TB),
198
,
216

Tulsa, Oklahoma,
201

“turn at bat,”
12

Tuxedo cigarettes,
131

umpires,
28
,
53
,
87
,
89
,
168
,
192

McGraw and,
28
,
87
,
89
,
109
,
168
–69,
192

Uneeda,
101

Union Park,
27

United States.
See also under specific baseball; specific topics

in 1890s,
90
–91

at turn of twentieth century,
11
,
12
,
47
–48

Vanderbilt Cup,
120

vendors,
101
,
102

violence,
4
,
17
,
46
,
53
,
107
–8,
157
.
See also specific individuals

Von der Ahe, Christian Frederick Wilhelm (“Der Boss President”),
16
,
29

Waddell, Rube,
116

Wagner, Honus (“Flying Dutchman”),
114
,
115

Wallace, Mike,
13

Ward, John Montgomery,
26
–27

Washington Inn,
178

Washington Park,
3
,
107
,
154

Washington Senators,
41
,
153
,
213

Weaver, Earl,
67

Wellsville,
79

Western League,
31
,
43

Western New York League,
79

Wheeler, John,
129
,
165

Wilson, Woodrow,
200

Wiltse, Hooks,
146
,
147
,
190

Wood, “Smokey Joe,”
180
,
183
,
184

World Series,
107

of 1903,
14

of 1905,
15
,
111
,
116
–22,
125

of 1911,
154
–55,
161
–69

of 1912,
179
–88

of 1913,
189
–91

of 1917,
199

of 1919,
116

of 1921,
114

of 1924,
218
–19

teams who lost three years in a row,
160
,
191

World War I,
194
,
199
–205

World's Champions jersey,
126

World's Championship Series,
107
,
112
,
214

World's Series,
107

Wrenn, Robert,
131

Wrigley Field,
154

Yardley, Jonathan,
58

Yerkes, Steve,
184

YMCA game,
78

Young, Cy,
221
–22

Young, Rida Johnson,
130