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Hod Eller Mystifies White Sox Batsmen From the Louisville Courier-Journal, October 7, 1919 Chicago, Oct. 6 – I am surprised that Par...

Henry McNeal was born in Alabama in December 1842. He received a commission to the field staff from Colonel Pope on September 16, 1861...

From the Louisville Courier-Journal, October 5, 1919 Breaks Give Reds Victory Over Sox, Asserts Speaker Bad Fielding by Chicago Loses...

Daniel Spalding was twenty-one years old at the time of his enlistment. A tobacconist by trade, Private Spalding was appointed sergeant...

From the Louisville Courier-Journal, October 4, 1919 White Sox Back in Form, Says Speaker; Hustling Playing Sweeps Reds Off Feet If...

Samuel E. Ratcliff was born in Pennsylvania. Twenty-four years old at the time of his enlistment, Ratcliff was 5’3”, with a fair...

From the Louisville Courier-Journal, March 25, 1888 Many people who have seen the tragedy of “Julius Caesar” are wont to consider Marc...

From the Louisville Courier-Journal, October 3, 1919 Reds Tighten Hold on World Series Banner Williams’ Lack of Control Fatal to Sox,...

Robert Owsley Phelps, the younger brother of Private Phillip Phelps of Company D, was born December 24, 1836 in LaRue County, Kentucky,...

From the Maysville Public Ledger, October 1, 1919 First Game in World Series Taken by Reds Cincinnati Wins Over Chicago White Sox in...

William Mansfield Tilden was born December 27, 1821 in Lowell, Massachusetts, the son of William Tilden and Ruth Mansfield. Private...

From the Owensboro Messenger, October 1, 1919 Dallas – Sept. 30 – Every boy in the United States will wish he owned a Texas oil well when...

George Petry was born in Titonium County, Pennsylvania in December 1843. A clerk, Petry was 4’7 ¾”; he had a fair complexion, brown eyes...

(Yep, it's a really obscure Shakespeare pun . . .) From the Louisville Courier-Journal, September 16, 1858 Theater – This evening...

From the Louisville Courier-Journal, October 7, 1903 Pittsburg Wins Another Game Philippe Pitches Third Successive Victory for the...

Samuel Thane Poinier was born March 17, 1837 in Cincinnati, the son of John R. Poinier and Julia E. Thane. He married Clementina Gadsden...

From the Louisville Courier-Journal, October 4, 1903 Great Crowd Is In Attendance Nearly Nineteen Thousand Fans See Pittsubrg Beat Boston...

The Reverend William Charles Marriott Atmore, the second Chaplain of the Fifteenth Kentucky, was born December 6, 1801 in...

From the Louisville Courier-Journal, October 2, 1903 Pittsburg Wins the First Game Masterly Pitching of Philippi to (Sic) Much for the...

Jeremiah Jeptha Talbott was born in Indiana on June 22, 1833, the son of Richard Colegate Talbott and Eliza Ragan Moore. The first...