Universal Baseball Encyclopedia

1920-6-19 Former Silk Sox pitcher, Joe Bellhoff, will arrive with his West New York team tomorrow. Frank Parkinson will make his debut at short for the Sox. Manager of Sox is Harry Stallings.

1920-6-22 "Parkinson, playing for the first time for a Sox crowd, was like a little girl reciting her first speech."

1920-6-26 Will play Marshall & Ball of Newark City League tomorrow.

1920-6-27 Silk Sox 4, Marshall & Ball 2.

1920-9-02 9-02 the Silk Sox, with lineup bolstered with outside players, fought Hilldale to a 13-inning tie at Darby. 9-01 Hilldale beat the Silk Sox 6-5 at Camden.

https://agatetype.typepad.com/agate_type/2023/12/checkerboard-plaid.html 1915 pictures

1920-4-25 beat Newark Stars 2-0 in opening game

1925 Camden will battle in Silk Sox in five-game series for championship of NJ

Camden managed by Wid Conroy

8-23 Silk Sox 2 Camden 0

8-30 Silk Sox 4 Camden 2

seems to be all

1925 series w/ Bushwicks for independent baseball title

preview 10-04 10-11

Benny Borgmann Basketball HOFer milb 1928-42 debuted as baseball pro at 29

Chick Passon basketball

Frank Talcott as of 10-04 had lost just 2 games - 55 inning scoreless streak

Jimmy Eschen MG

1922-4-25 Silk Sox Sizzlers

1922-9-07 VG Jimmy Eschen profile.

1925-9-25 MLB teams no longer playing exhibitions at Doherty Oval because the Silk Sox played against teams with blacklisted players. John C. O'Reilly, Silk Sox publicity agent, gives the lowdown.

" 'McGraw refused to play against us, on his own admission, because we had played against Cavanaugh, while a few months later he sends his own players under assumed names to play with Cavanaugh."

1926-2-24 really good profiles of two of their new signings

1941-4-17 On Jimmy Eschen.

1955-4-14 Memories of the Doherty Silk Sox

1970-3-12 Jimmy Clinton obit. Retired insurance broker.

Paterson Silk Sox

https://www.newspapers.com/search/results/?date=1950&keyword=%22paterson+silk+sox%22&sort=paper-date-desc

Paterson

1944-6-20 Gus Brock obit. Played with the Paterson Superiors, which also produced Bibbs and Frenchy Raymond.

The reporter recommended both Brock and Ververs, who were with the Paterson Pennants, to the player-desperate Jersey City Skeeters in 1918.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/team.cgi?id=4afe26d3

Brock hit .198 and Ververs was 3-15 - not much worse than team average.
Brock was an entertaining outfielder - knew how not just to catch the ball but to catch it with verve.

Bob Tecarr

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GQJX-26W

Robert Anthony Tecarr, 1892-2-04 (NY) to 1965-4-08 (Tarrytown). Parents were born in Italy. Had three brothers: Frank, Joseph, and Patrick.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=tecarr001rob
good pic: https://www.loc.gov/resource/ggbain.33973/

1930-8-19 Pic

https://www.newspapers.com/article/evening-express-bob-tecarr-green-sox-pi/161320277/

https://www.newspapers.com/search/results/?feature-rs=true&keyword=tecarr+%22slow+ball%22&sort=paper-date-asc

Excel

https://www.newspapers.com/search/results/?date=1914&feature-rs=true&keyword=%22tecarr%22&sort=paper-date-asc

1922-4-27 The slow ball, explained

1912-8-05 Several hundred athletes and friends enjoyed annual outing of 999 Store A.C. Pat Tecarr won throwing contest.

(1908-4-22 With Nyack AC (I think) - won 21-13. Pat pitched (?). Pat homered three times - Robert twice.

(1909-6-23 Won 13-4 for Superba A.C

1910-4-24 Won 9-5 for Myrtle A.C. v. Beaver B.B.C. 1.5K ATT. Brother Pat at short.

1910-5-23 Played 3b and relieved in Myrtle win. 500 ATT.

(1910-6-03 For Myrtle, beat Vanderbilt S.C. 20-2 before 500 fans.

(1910-6-29 For Blarney A.C., lost 6-4 to Farmer B.B.C. at Farmers Oval before 3K fans.

(1910-7-27 Won 10-4 for Blarney A.C.

(1910-10-19 Batted 3rd but lost 12-2 for Fairmount F.C. 600 ATT.

(1911-4-19 For Creston A.A., lost 8-5 to Creston F.C. 500 ATT. Pat at 2b.

1911-6-18 Won 5-4 for Glenmore A.C. 4.5K ATT. Brother Patrick at short.

(1911-7-27 Lost 3-2 for Cortland v. Winfield. Pat at short.

1912-6-27) Played 1st for 999 B.B.C.
(1912-7-02) Pitches for 999 A.C. Brothers Patrick and Joseph are infielders. "Tecars." Lost 8-3 - 14K - 1750 ATT.

(1912-9-11) Won 17-6 - beat Fiatus B.B.C. Lost 16-11 to Lawrence. All three Tecarrs in each game.

(1912-10-19) Lost 7-0 to St. Mathews C.C.

1915-4-11 For Wizard F.C., lost 15-6 to St. Aloysius C.C.

1915-4-18 Started for Wilkes-Barre in 3-1 loss to Ernie Lindemann, Suburban A.A.
1915-4-20 Reported at Wilkes-Barre for spring training.

1915-7-20 New Haven has released Lefty Tecarr. He is a youngster with "lots of stuff but no control."
Didn't play after that, it seems.

(1915-7-20 Pat at 3b with Penn Glenn.

1915-8-13 Formerly of the Penn Glenns, signed up with Liberty B.B.C.

1915-9-04 The Vitagraph Club is one of the top amateur teams in Greater New York this year. Club composed of movie men. "Started the season with the intention of capturing the motion picture championship," but has only found two motion picture teams to play against: Edison and Lubin of Philadelphia. They defeated both, and are 13-0 against sundry competition. List of scores. Paddy Tecarr is their third baseman.
(1915-10-19 At cf-3b for Liberty B.B.C. - team lost championship of East New York

1921-7-22 Tecarr stopped Ogden's 18-game winning streak by beating the Orioles 3-2. Tecarr won his own game with a two-run double.

1921-10-01 Will pitch for Tarrytown K.O.C. v. the Bolt Works. "Tecarr possesses a great amount of stuff. He possesses a wonderful change of pace and is said, by authorities on pitching, to throw the slowest slow ball in captivity."

1921-10-02 Lost 5-2. "Their pitcher, Tecarr, was the only man in the line-up who deserves any mention of good playing, and he spoiled it all by his continual arguing with the 'ump'. Had his team-mates been men enough to give him the right kind of support, the score would probably not have been 5-2 in favor of the locals."

Tecarr walked off the field in the sixth inning on a disputed call and several of his teammates followed, as the crowd "jeered and hooted." It was with difficulty that the Tarrytown manager coaxed Tecarr back.

"Tecarr certainly did not live up to his name as a league pitcher by arguing and stalling. The whole 'works' seemed 'flukey' anyway. It looked like a one-man team, distinctly controlled by its pitcher."

Play by play. Bolt Works won 18th consecutive game. Their pitcher was Sava, Sal p 1918 EL, who won his 16th straight game.

1923-3-25 "Ben [Egan] did his catching for the Yannigans and held the 'terrific shoots' of Bob Tecarr with ease, although one of the regulars was unkind enough to ask Tecarr, after he had pitched an inning, "When are you going to be through warming up." However, Tecarr was a puzzle to his mates and made his slow ball work overtime."

1923-4-02 Buffalo. Tecarr is an Italian with a real name of Techario. Tommy Ray (Rea), his teammate, is also Italian. "The pair have a grand time chattering back and forth in their own lingo, with the fine advantage of being able to call other players and his umps what they like without being understood by anybody but themselves."

1923-4-20 Speaks of Tecarr & his "tantalizing slow ball."

1923-6-03 Real name is Bob Techario.

1923-7-31 Manager Egan announced yesterday he sold Bob Tecarr to Springfield EL. "Tecarr pitched some fine games for the Insects last season, but so far this year has been unable to get going. He has good control and at times his elusive floater gives opposing batsmen considerable trouble."

1923-8-01 Debuted for Springfield. Didn't allow a baserunner in the first five innings. "Tecarr, with a hook curve and a deceiving slow ball, did such good work that he was constantly applauded by the crowd." But he gave up six runs in the sixth; final score, 6-3. Cartoon of Tecarr getting beaned with a horseshoe by lady luck.

1923-9-28 Daily News.
"Many a pitcher has been able to eke out a living by using a slow ball after his fast stuff had disappeared.

A couple of the Giants were fanning the other day about the slow ball pitchers against whom they had batted when Col. Jack Bentley of Baltimore took the floor.

"You fellows can talk all you want about slow ball pitching," the $65,000 behemoth opened up in his quiet Maryland drawl, "but I guess the fellow who had the slowest of them all was that young Tecarr who was with the Jersey City team of the International League.

"He didn't have anything but a slow ball and about as deceiving as an elephant coming down an alley with his ears stretched out. Tecarr was pitching in Rochester one day and Fred Merkle came to bat. Fred let a couple of those easy ones come by, but when Tecarr delivered his next one Fred dropped his bat, reached out, caught the ball with one hand and threw it back to the pitcher. The umpire called it a strike, but that seemed fair enough all around. That fellow had a slow ball, what I mean."

1924 Portland
1924-7-06 Won 10-3 for the Portland American Legion before 2K+ fans. (American Legion team = Green Sox.) "It was the first start for the southpaw since his jaw was cracked by a batted ball a week ago, but his teasing slow-ball made monkeys of the Malden batters, as they broke their backs in the vain effort to land safely."

1924-7-20 Beat the State League Worumbos 10-4

1924-7-29 Green Sox lost 12-2 to Chick Davies' Salem Mass. team. Tecarr relieved, and his "notorious slow ball" worked fine, but he retired after 3.1 innings with a split finger suffered while fielding a ball.

8-06 beat Haverhill 4-1

9-11 beat Sheriff Billy Buckland 2-1 in 14 inning game

description of slow ball

1924-5-18 Won 13-1 for Yonkers All-Stars v. Bronx Bears. "The chap from Sleepy Hollow was regarded as the best slow ball pitcher in the International, and his performance yesterday was 'up to snuff.' He lobbed the sphere across for the seven innings of the game so slow that the Bronx batsmen were swinging before the apple was within a yard of the plate."

1924-6-02 Bridgeton. Won 8-4 for Trenton v. Millville - Trenton team has Lai, Swigler, and Sharkey - Lohr and Steen were in the hospital. Lai described as "erstwhile local third sacker."

1924-6-15 Made his first start for the Bushwicks in the first game of a doubleheader attended by 12K fans. Beat the American Chain Co. of Bridgeport CT 7-3.

1925

8-3 w/ Caseys used as pinchitter in loss to Dick Redding

1928

9-10 trounced 19-2 by Tuckahoe Lions

1926

Bob Tecarr's All-Stars

1932

Westchester Blue Sox formerly Tecarr's stars x

6-5 10-8 win tecarr at 1b

1935-6-02 Started for Cudney Brothers A.C. in a Hudson Valley League game and didn't last long.

WWI draft card Lists birthdate as 1890-10-22. Works for Chevrolet Motor Co. of Tarrytown.
1942 draft registration 6'0", 218 lb. Works for Eastern Aircraft in North Tarrytown. Lives at 105 Tappan Land-Rd.

1936-4-14 His son Bob will pitch for North Tarrytown in the Hudson River League.
1938-6-02 Mount Vernon. Managing the Ossining Baseball Club - lost his first game to Brooklyn K.O.C. 10-7 in 10 innings. "As one of the best pitchers ever developed in Tarrytown, Tecarr had one of the most baffling slow balls in the business about 15 years ago."
1949-6-13 Daily News. Recuperating from a back injury at Tarrytown.

1956-3-24 White Plains. Profile of Tom Pietrani, who managed the Westchester Blue Sox with Tecarr "for awhile in the thirties."
1963-1-22 New Rochelle. Bob Tecarr pic with Colgate.
1965-1-15 White Plains. With General Foods of Tarrytown, set a new Industrial League mark with 58 points. Shot 27 for 49 from the field and made four free throws.
1966-1-06 Mount Vernon. Bob Tecarr of TMC leads the Westchester Industrial Basketball League in scoring with 35.3 pts per game in six games.

1966-11-02 UPI. The Merry Maids of Marymount, college girls' football team, "recruited for their coach 24-year-old Bob Tecarr, a physical education teacher at a neighboring school." Both sexism in reporting and concluding quote from player who doesn't think a college lineman should be described as "dainty and petite."

1972-6-16 Port Chester. Pic of Jim Johnson, Rye High pitcher, who received the Tecarr Memorial Trophy given by "Tarrytown sporting goods dealer Bob Tecarr in memory of his late father" to the "Outstanding Pitcher" of the Section 1 tournament.

1977-3-06 Joe Sager is a close friend of Bob Sr.

1984-7-01 White Plains. Prezioso, Bill, future milb p, won the Bob Tecarr award this year as Westchester's most valuable pitcher.

1995-3-15 Bob Tecarr Jr. presented plaque.

1996-3-02 Bob Tecarr "Sr.", 77, played for Tarrytown's Washington Irving HS in 1936 when they won the Section 1 Class B championship. He now works for Riddell All-American in PR. His son, Bob Tecarr Jr., "played for Pleasantville and won a Class A championship in 1960." He recently retired as Fox Lane baseball coach. He coached his son Bob in the 1994 tournament.
2007-3-03 Bob Tecarr Sr, now 88, "opened R.E. Tecarr Sporting Goods in 1948 in North Tarrytown, which is now Sleepy Hollow. The family moved to Pleasantville in 1955..."

Bob Tecarr Jr. is 64. Won consecutive "gold balls" in 1959 and 1960.
2013-3-21 Tecarr Sr. obit - died at 94. Attended Fordham.
https://www.tributearchive.com/obituaries/25361735/robert-w.-tecarr Robert W. Tecarr 1938-2022.

https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/players/robert-tecarr-1.html Son played two years at Colgate.

Monday, April 24, 2023

Happy Felsch in Regina

https://leaderpost.com/news/local-news/happy-trails-banned-big-leaguers-journey-took-him-to-regina-in-1920s

England - British - Britain baseball

https://yorkshirebaseballarchive.co.uk/latest-news/

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results?basicsearch=yorkshire%20league%20baseball&retrievecountrycounts=false

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball_in_the_United_Kingdom

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Yorkshire-Lancashire_League

https://ojs.uwindsor.ca/index.php/jcb/issue/view/713/221
Did Canada Save British Baseball?

https://www.facebook.com/FolkestoneBaseball/

1894 Middlesborough

https://www.projectcobb.org.uk/professionals.html
List of North American pros to play in England.

https://www.projectcobb.org.uk/top-tier_stats.html
Roland Gladu led the London Major League with a .565 average in 1937. John Devey of Aston Villa led in average (.428) and wins (13) in 1890.
https://www.projectcobb.org.uk/materials.html
Some really good stuff - 1930s progammes - etc.
Progamme for 198th Battalion v. Epsom Hospital, 1917

http://projectcobb.org.uk/bbhof/
https://www.projectcobb.org.uk/team_photos.php?photo=1900

https://www.projectcobb.org.uk/ebooks/WatV.pdf Book on 1890 league.

https://www.abebooks.com/9780786425945/British-Baseball-West-Ham-Club-0786425946/plp

Blackadar etc.
Jarman 1909 stats - compiled thru Leystone paper

Percy Fender

Hurst Hawks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berry_Nieuwenhuys played for Hurst Hawks in 1930s along with two other Liverpool teammates.

1874-8-25 St. Louis paper quotes Manchester Guardian describing baseball as formidable rival to cricket.

British Baseball Association

1906

1911

(1906-7-06 Fulham and Hammersmith Chronicle. Spurs 14, Fulham 12. Jarman described as excellent pitcher.

1906-7-28 Observer. Leyton 11, Fulham 4. Described as best game of season.

Tottenham Hotspur 24, Clapham Orient 12.

1906-8-25 Daily Mirror. Final to be played today.

1906-8-25 Daily Mirror. Tottenham Hotspur 16, Nondescripts 5. 2.5K ATT. William Jarman with Spurs.

1911-7-29 Daily Telegraph. Leyton 11, Tufnell Park 1.

1906 BBA final standings

William Harman Learned baseball playing indoor ball in Cleveland.

London Major League

1936

1937

Gladu, Roland 1936 West Ham 1937 West Ham

1936-3-16 Evening Express. Three Canadian stars have arrived - Roland Gladu, Jerry Strong (Montreal Royals pitcher), and George S. Etheze (French-Canadian catcher who played for the Ottawa Crains in the St. Lawrence League.)

1934-8-06 Etheze homers for Crains.

1936-5-02 Evening Standard. Jerry Strong pitcher.

(1936-5-17 Sunday Dispatch. Standings, commentary. Roland Gladu, returning from a broken nose and the flu, homered. Jerry Strong played.

Scores from other leagues.

(1937-7-18 Sunday Mirror. Gladu, West Ham captained, homered and struck out nine.

Yorkshire League

1937

Gladu, Roland 1937 Sheffield Dons

(1937-8-17 Hull Daily Mail.

https://www.newspapers.com/search/results/?date-end=1937&date-start=1936&keyword=gladu&region=gb-eng

Canadian Army
https://sabr.org/journal/article/batted-balls-and-bayonets-baseball-and-the-canadian-expeditionary-force-1914-1918/

Canadian Baseball Championship in England.

1917-10-20 Football Post. 101 teams from seven areas competed.

preview Semi-final of Canadian championship.

1917-10-03 Surrey. Epsom Hospital 7, 13th Reserve Canadian Battalion. Epsom Hospital were winners of the London area, and the Battalion were winners of the Seaford and Shoreham area. 300-400 ATT. 1st baseball game at the Guildford Sports Ground. Lists run scorers and lineups.

1917-10-10 Football Post. Canadian Buffs 4, Epsom Hospital 1. 4-5K ATT.

1917-10-13 Surrey. Epsom Hospital 7, Canadian Buffs 1. Very brief summary.

1917-10-13Sunday Mirror. Pics.

Canadian Buffs = 198th Battalion.

1917-10-31 Toronto Star. Very good. Gives rosters of Epsom and Canadian Buffs teams, listing their baseball experience in Canada. Toronto and Nova Scotia players.

Did Canada Save British Baseball?

Fn. 22: "The roster of the Fort Garry Horses in 1915 reads like a who's who of Winnipeg Senior League baseball, for example."

Carl Henry Blackadar

https://www.familysearch.org/en/search/record/results?q.givenName=carl&q.surname=blackadar
https://canadiangreatwarproject.com/person.php?pid=149517
Born 1885-11-30. Has 1915 paper when he enlisted. President address in Vancouver. Is a locomotive fireman. Is married. Is 5'6". Dark complexion - brown eyes - dark hair.
1911-4-06 Vancouver. Came down from Juneau Alaska - spent a week here - left for Seattle, where he will visit relatives before being returning here.

1915-4-28 Vancouver. Auto baseball umpire?

1915-5-02 Vancouver. Captain of Vancouver Automatic Baseball team. Will journey to Bellingham to play Bay City quintette.

1915-12-02 St. John Telegraph-Journal. With the First Canadian Pioneer Corps. His father was an alderman in this city. Has lived in Seattle for the past few years - went to Vancouver to enlist.

1918-5-18 Seattle Cayton's Weekly. Dottie Blackadar has filed divorce against him for desertion.

1919-6-04 St. John Standard. Tells of his successes as sergeant in economy. Saved huge amount of money by salvaging table scraps. Badly injured at Ypres. Has been in Canada since February. Has not been in St. John in eighteen years. On tour of inspection of maritime provinces.

1920-4-24 Vancouver Province. Has spent a few days with his mother, Mrs. A. Blackadar of Portland OR.

1920-5-04 St. John Standard. Received welcome - passed thru city yesterday in route to Halifax, where he will receive his discharge after five years of service.

Was conducting a mercantile establishment in Vancouver at the outbreak of war. Since the armistice has been engaged in repatriating coolies to their homeland.

1926-4-01 Halifax. Wife died.

https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/Roland-Gladu/
Cites two books - British Baseball and the West Ham Club (2007) - Josh Chetwynd and Brian A. Bolton.
The Blokes of Baseball - Harvey Sahker.

British Baseball and the West Ham Club (2007) Review - focuses especially on London Major League 1936-1937. Sounds good.