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Published stories from the 1900s archive.
Baseball
By the time the Philadelphia Giants and Cuban X-Giants reached Atlantic City in September 1904, each had a reason to believe a championship belonged to it. The X-Giants had beaten Philadelphia in a seven-game series the year before and advertised themselves as the “Colored Base Ball Champions of the World.” Philadelphia had remade its club with players from that very opponent.
Baseball
Tommy Corcoran was supposed to be playing shortstop. Instead, during the third inning of a September 1900 game in Philadelphia, the Cincinnati Reds player began digging into the dirt around the third-base coach’s box.
Baseball
The baseball game was tied when the sound from beyond the ballpark began drawing attention. On August 8, 1903, the Phillies and Boston were in the fourth inning of the second game of a doubleheader. Spectators in the bleachers turned toward a disturbance on 15th Street. Some moved onto a wooden passageway that overlooked it.