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This time, we’re voyaging over to the other side of pre-integration baseball, the Negro Leagues (currently celebrating their 100th...

From the Louisville Courier-Journal, April 12, 1914 . . . It is worthy of note that the death of Beaumont, though in died in harness in...

Joseph M. Donahue was born on September 4, 1839 in Ireland and was the son of Malachi Donahue and Mary Hines. He emigrated to the United...

For Game 6 of the (Simulated) 1904 World Series, the scene shifts back to New York’s Polo Grounds. Through the first three games, the...

George Deering was born on September 18, 1841 in Louisville, the son of Seriah Stratton Deering and Mary J. Stringer. He was a miller...

We’re back at Boston’s Huntington Avenue Baseball Grounds once again today for Game 5. With the Giants still sitting on a commanding 3-1...

Henry Clay Daniel was born in Cadiz, Kentucky on July 16, 1842. He was the son of Andrew Broaddus Daniel and Matilda Greenwade. Daniel...

We’re back in Boston’s Huntington Avenue Baseball Grounds for Game 4 of the (Simulated) 1904 World Series. With a 3-0 lead and looking to...

From The Argus of Western America (Frankfort, Kentucky) A French author, who has recently published a tour through England, calls plump...

William Coulter was born in Ireland. Twenty-eight years old when he enlisted, he was a stonecutter by profession. Coulter was 5’6 ½” and...

For Game 3 of the (Simulated) 1904 World Series, the scene has shifted to Boston’s Huntington Avenue Baseball Grounds. For the visiting...

Stephen Cosgrove was born in Augusta County, Virginia and was a teamster before the war. Cosgrove was thirty-six years old when he...

Welcome back to New York’s Polo Grounds on a lovely October afternoon for Game 2 of the (Simulated) 1904 World Series. Boston Americans’...

William Shadrack Casey was born in Shelby County, Kentucky in 1846, the son of Appolos and Julia Casey. He likely misrepresented his age...

We’re at New York’s Polo Grounds on an October afternoon for Game 1 of the (Simulated) 1904 World Series: the Boston Americans versus the...

From the Louisville Courier-Journal, November 28, 1864 Mr. Wood’s Theatre – Mr. Boniface and Miss Newton appear this evening as Benedick...

Private William Carlyle was a farmer born in Hampshire County, Virginia and was probably the son of Robert A. Carlyle and Maria McCauley....

Last time, we wound up our simulation of the 1902 major league playoffs which never happened and crowned the Pittsburgh Pirates the...

Private Franz Heinrich Bremer was born January 1, 1835 in Dassow, Nordwestmecklenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, the son of Georg...

For more than four months, the news has been dominated by people pushing back against orders from governors across the country to wear...