Ned Hanlon was most famous as manager of the Baltimore Orioles in the 1890s. He piloted this great team to three straight National League pennants in 1894, 1895, and 1896. And then he went on to bring ...
Great Falls — At this time of year when family and relatives unite for that uniquely American holiday, Thanksgiving, it is not unusual to dig into the past to see how we all looked and felt and ...
El Paso can trace it’s baseball history back to the 1890s when the El Paso Browns were playing what many fans felt was the equivalent of Major League baseball. Leagues and schedules were sparse then ...
In March, Joe Tomasulo, the East Coast consignment director for the sports memorabilia auction house, Memory Lane, was in White Plains, New York, for the JP's Sports & Rock Solid promotion show. He ...
A visitor from abroad during the 1890 baseball season might have thought Marxists were rallying in Brotherhood Park upon hearing echoes of “We are the people! We are the people!” Chicago was famed for ...
Colorado Rockies’ baseball fans turn to a midsection of The Aspen Times to see how their team is doing. During the 1890s, readers found scores and standings on the front page. With no basketball or ...
Great Falls — My experience with the Great Falls Historical Society (GFHS) began the summer of 2015. I had just finished my first year at the University of Mary Washington and was looking for an ...
With sagebrush covering the outfield, willow trees hugging the first-base line and four teams of ballplayers channeling their inner Cap Anson, leave it to a Wyoming ghost town to host possibly the ...
Last week, in the midst of all the other turmoil, a basketball player suggested that he and his colleagues should henceforth ignore the NBA and simply form their own league. The idea didn’t seem to ...
On Antiques Roadshow, the great-grandson of the mustachioed baseball legend, Edward Hugh "Ned" Hanlon, brought some of his great grandfather's championship memorabilia -- three championship lapel pins ...