North Platte Baseball
Baseball was a popular leisure activity for boys and young men in Nebraska during the 1890s and early 1900s. Small towns often fielded teams, giving rise to strong ...
Baseball
What We Found
The Old Settlers Picnic
Summertime is picnic time. Family get-togethers, high school reunions, and townhomecomings dot the summer calendars of many Nebraskans. At the turn of the century,many ...
Baseball, Ruth vs Gehrig
Considered by many to have been the best baseball team ever fielded, the 1927 New York Yankees featured a "Murderer's Row" of batters including Babe Ruth (this was his ...
Sunday Baseball
The Sunday afternoon baseball game seems as American as mom and apple pie. But in theearly 1900s, playing baseball on Sunday was not only regarded by some as ...
Sunday Closing Laws
Engaging in certain activities on Sunday was once illegal in Nebraska. J. D. Calhoun of the Lincoln Weekly Herald on November 22, 1890, protested the local ban on Sunday ...
Thayer’s Invention
John Nelson's photograph of a baseball game includes a catcher with face mask in the left foreground. NSHS RG3542:PH:097-12
The catcher's mask in baseball was ...
Tournament Baseball
The Cornhusker State Games recently brought athletes from all over Nebraska to the CapitalCity. Although these games are only a few years old, statewide athletic ...
Baseball
Interest in baseball goes back to the late l860s in this state. The Nebraska Herald of Plattsmouth said on May 1, 1867: "The friends of athletic sports in Omaha, and ...
Baseball at Cushman Park
Baseball was a part of the Lancaster County Old Settlers' Association reunion and picnic on June 19, 1889, at Cushman Park in Lincoln. The Nebraska State Journal of June ...
Baseball at North Bend
Baseball was a popular leisure activity for boys and young men in Nebraska during the 1890s and early 1900s. Small towns often fielded teams, giving rise to strong ...
Baseball Sportswriter Insults, 1894
Baseball was a popular pastime during the 1890s, and so was newspaper coverage full of colorful insults. In late summer of 1894 the Lincoln, Nebraska, baseball team ...
Baseball in Early Lincoln
Edward Manley, a Chicago educator, was the son of Samuel Manley, one of the five men that composed the faculty of the University of Nebraska when classes first began in ...
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