Throughout baseball’s history, teams have been accused of or outed publicly for various schemes to “steal” signs, often involving people with binoculars or telescopes in centerfield relaying ...

The teams that did let Walker play weren’t ... In 2022, SABR’s Overlooked 19th Century Baseball Legends Project named Walker—a first time finalist—one of their “Overlooked 19th Century ...

Anyone who thinks today’s baseball, with its vast stadiums ... created to preserve and promote the game. The team name is an homage to the 19th century Brooklyn Atlantics, who were world ...

Baseball teams were already being fielded in the 1850s ... the top slugger of all 19th-century players who had led his league in batting five times. He had retired to his nearby horse farm when ...

Toward the end of the 19th century, baseball players began to challenge ... baseball”) was an integral part of the sport, and teams built on Hanlon’s foundation in every direction.

Born in 1857 to Irish immigrants on Christy Street in Troy, Kelly grew up near the grounds of Knickerbacker Park, not far from where the Troy Haymakers, a prominent 19th-century baseball team ...