http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/oldtimebaseballuniforms/ Old Time Baseball Uniforms & More Fri, 15 May 2009 18:02:01 GMT penncentralpete http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/oldtimebaseballuniforms/message/28 http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/oldtimebaseballuniforms/message/28 Hello: Great news. ballcap.com has finally designed the most authentic old time Brooklyn cap ever produced! It is presently available as model: 1949. This is Sun, 05 Oct 2008 21:23:18 GMT penncentralpete http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/oldtimebaseballuniforms/message/27 http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/oldtimebaseballuniforms/message/27 I just added 15 pix in the "photo" section. Check 'em out! Pete Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:30:05 GMT penncentralpete http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/oldtimebaseballuniforms/message/26 http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/oldtimebaseballuniforms/message/26 http://www.hr-derby.com/ Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:49:00 GMT penncentralpete http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/oldtimebaseballuniforms/message/25 http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/oldtimebaseballuniforms/message/25 The Inventor Of The "Mud" Used To Rub Up Baseballs: They used to use chewing tobacco, then mud made of water and dirt from the playing field, to remove the Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:46:39 GMT penncentralpete http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/oldtimebaseballuniforms/message/24 http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/oldtimebaseballuniforms/message/24 Indoor Baseball Game, 1905 Indoor baseball was invented by George Hancock in 1887 at the Farragut Boat Club on Chicago's South Side. The basic equipment was a Tue, 26 Aug 2008 03:01:17 GMT penncentralpete http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/oldtimebaseballuniforms/message/23 http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/oldtimebaseballuniforms/message/23 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5LvX_PDWo0&feature=related Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:47:08 GMT penncentralpete http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/oldtimebaseballuniforms/message/22 http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/oldtimebaseballuniforms/message/22 The Continental League was a proposed 8-team baseball league which never got off the ground but still had significant impact on baseball. It is generally Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:34:44 GMT penncentralpete http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/oldtimebaseballuniforms/message/21 http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/oldtimebaseballuniforms/message/21 I recently read a book by the famed historian and lifelong baseball fan David Halberstam. This book, cleverly titled The Teammates, describes a sixty-plus Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:30:59 GMT penncentralpete http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/oldtimebaseballuniforms/message/20 http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/oldtimebaseballuniforms/message/20 1910 ? Chicago's Ed Walsh tops Walter Johnson, 1?0, the 3rd straight time Walsh has beaten the Big Train and Washington by that score. Left fielder Fred Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:26:09 GMT penncentralpete http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/oldtimebaseballuniforms/message/19 http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/oldtimebaseballuniforms/message/19 Runs were scarce during the first two decades of 20th-century baseball as pitchers like Cy Young, Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson dominated the action. Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:55:22 GMT penncentralpete http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/oldtimebaseballuniforms/message/18 http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/oldtimebaseballuniforms/message/18 http://www.ebbets.com/ Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:35:12 GMT penncentralpete http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/oldtimebaseballuniforms/message/17 http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/oldtimebaseballuniforms/message/17 ... I also loaded two New York Giants' uniforms .........one from 1925 and another from 1944. Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:17:15 GMT penncentralpete http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/oldtimebaseballuniforms/message/16 http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/oldtimebaseballuniforms/message/16 I loaded some pix of me wearing some of my old-time caps and uniforms. Check out the "photos" section. Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:46:49 GMT penncentralpete http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/oldtimebaseballuniforms/message/15 http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/oldtimebaseballuniforms/message/15 In 1849 the New York Knickerbockers became the first team to use uniforms.[3] Their uniforms consisted of white flannel shirts, wool pants and straw hats. In Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:45:25 GMT penncentralpete http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/oldtimebaseballuniforms/message/14 http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/oldtimebaseballuniforms/message/14 By the end of the 19th century clubs were customarily wearing different uniforms at home and on the road. It became standard practice to wear white at home and