Past Time Ball

Fresh finds from the archives. Old ballgames, older ads and the best team names ever set in metal type.

Hardware store advertisement headlined Play Ball, with drawings of a batter, a tennis racket and a boy holding an Official League ball, offering the D. and M. and A. G. Spaulding lines of sporting goods.

Play ball! Attractive prices to clubs buying in quantities

Tulsa Daily World
Tulsa, Oklahoma · 1915

Boxed advertisement reading Base Ball Sunday, St. Paul American League vs Tulsa Producers, game called 3:00 p.m., admission 25 cents.

Base Ball Sunday. The Producers at 3 o'clock, bring a quarter

Tulsa Producers
Tulsa, Oklahoma · 1915

Newspaper photograph of Miss Florence Dominguez wearing a catcher's mask and holding a catcher's mitt, framed in an ornate border, captioned as the Native Sons queen candidate for 1915.

The queen candidate is an accomplished backstop

Tulsa Daily World
Tulsa, Oklahoma · 1915

Front page story headlined Baseball for Charity Tomorrow Afternoon, describing a doubleheader for the hospital fund with a full lineup of the town's butchers against its grocers.

The butchers play the grocers, then the Democrats play the Republicans

Chickasha Daily Express
Chickasha, Oklahoma · 1909

Multi-panel newspaper cartoon by W. R. Allman showing highlights of a chaotic 1911 game: a flooded outfield, a fielder landing in a puddle, Harry Lord diving into the bench, Schaefer stealing first from second and Washington protesting the game.

Schaefer stole second and then went back and stole first

Tulsa Daily World
Tulsa, Oklahoma · 1915

Full-page newspaper photograph of pitcher Joe McGinnity in a New York uniform waving his right arm overhead, headlined This Is the Famous Iron Man of McGraw's Team, credited to a Republic photographer.

This is the famous Iron Man of McGraw's team

New York Giants
St. Louis, Missouri · 1903