16. Boston Herald, August 31, 1918.
17. Chicago Tribune, August 31, 1918.
18. Chicago Tribune, September 2, 1918.
19. The Sporting News, August 22, 1918.
20. Chicago American, August 1, 1918.
21. Chicago American, July 19, 1918.
22. Farwell, Over There, p. 185.
23. New York Times, August 14, 1918.
24. Baseball Magazine, November 1920.
CHAPTER 14
1. Description of the scene at the Federal Building is taken from September 5, 1918, editions of the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Herald Examiner, and Chicago Daily News.
2. Chicago Tribune, September 5, 1918.
3. Boston Globe, September 5, 1918.
4. Chicago Daily Journal, September 5, 1918.
5. Boston American, September 5, 1918.
6. Chicago Daily Journal, September 5, 1918.
7. Chicago American, August 21, 1918.
8. Boston Post, September 1, 1918.
9. Chicago Tribune, August 18, 1918.
10. The Sporting News, August 29, 1918.
11. Boston Herald, September 5, 1918.
12. Chicago Herald Examiner, September 5, 1918.
13. Boston Post, September 5, 1918.
14. Baseball Magazine, October 1918.
15. Boston Herald, September 5, 1918.
16. Boston Herald, September 4, 1918.
17. Fowler, Skyline, p. 109.
18. Boston American, September 6, 1918.
19. Boston American, September 6, 1918.
20. Chicago Tribune, September 6, 1918.
21. Boston Post, September 7, 1918.
22. Chicago Tribune, September 6, 1918.
23. New York Times, September 6, 1918.
CHAPTER 15
1. Chicago Tribune, September 8, 1918.
2. Chicago Tribune, September 7, 1918.
3. Chicago American, September 4, 1918.
4. Chicago Herald Examiner, September 7, 1918.
5. The Sporting News, September 12, 1918.
6. The Sporting News, September 12, 1918.
7. Chicago Tribune, September 4, 1918.
8. Boston American, September 7, 1918.
9. Boston American, September 7, 1918.
10. Boston American, September 8, 1918.
11. New York Times, September 8, 1918.
12. Chicago Herald Examiner, September 9, 1918.
13. Chicago Herald Examiner, September 8, 1918.
14. The Sporting News, September 12, 1918.
15. Sports Collectors Digest, November 3, 2000.
16. Chicago Tribune, July 11, 1921.
17. Chicago Tribune, May 30, 1966.
18. Chicago Tribune, December 28, 1921.
CHAPTER 16
1. Boston Post, September 9, 1918.
2. Boston Post, September 11, 1918.
3. The Sporting News, February 21, 1918.
4. Chicago Tribune, September 8, 1918.
5. Boston Globe, September 10, 1918.
6. Boston Globe, September 10, 1918.
7. Chicago Herald Examiner, September 10, 1918.
8. New York Times, September 10, 1918.
9. Boston Globe, September 10, 1918.
10. Boston Post, September 10, 1918.
11. Chicago Herald Examiner, September 11, 1918.
12. Boston American, September 10, 1918.
13. Pawtucket Times, August 24, 1975.
14. Boston Herald, September 11, 1918.
15. Boston Globe, September 11, 1918.
16. The Sporting News, January 31, 1918.
17. New Yorker, May 12, 1956.
18. New York Times, August 17, 1922.
19. New York Times, August 17, 1922.
CHAPTER 17
1. Asinof, Eight Men Out, p. 172.
2. Dewey and Acocella, The Black Prince of Baseball, p. 277.
3. From Ritter’s interview with Roush, available on CD at the Baseball Hall of Fame.
4. Asinof, Eight Men Out, p. 13.
5. Boston Globe, September 11, 1918.
6. Chicago Herald Examiner, September 12, 1918.
7. Boston American, September 11, 1918.
8. New York Times, September 12, 1918.
9. Chicago Tribune, September 12, 1918.
10. Boston American, September 12, 1918.
11. Hartford Courant, September 12, 1918.
12. Boston American, September 12, 1918.
13. Chicago Daily Journal, September 12, 1918.
14. New York Times, September 12, 1918.
15. Chicago Daily Journal, September 12, 1918.
16. Hartford Courant, September 12, 1918.
17. Chicago Tribune, September 12, 1918.
18. New York Times, September 12, 1918.
19. Boston American, September 12, 1918.
20. Chicago Daily Journal, September 14, 1918.
21. The doctor’s quote can be found at http://1918.pandemicflu.gov/your_state/massachusetts.htm.
22. Venson, The United States in the First World War, p. 577.
23. The Sporting News, November 20, 1919.
CHAPTER 18
1. Chicago Tribune, December 29, 1918.
2. Pawtucket Times, August 24, 1975.
3. The letter is in George Whiteman’s file at the Baseball Hall of Fame.
4. The letter is in Les Mann’s file at the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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INDEX
Acocella, Nicholas, 131
Agnew, Sam, 38, 151, 187, 202
Ainsmith, Eddie, 3, 116, 127
Alcock, John, 69
Alcott, Bronson, 69
Alcott, Louisa May, 69
Aldridge, Vic, 23, 117, 201
Alexander, Aimee, 50, 52, 59
Alexander, George, 51, 53
Alexander, Grover Cleveland, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 29, 34, 35, 45, 47, 48, 49–53, 56–60, 62, 63, 64, 79, 105, 107, 117, 127, 153–54, 201, 205
Altrock, Nick, 102
Anderson, John, 99
Antolini, Ella, 143
Armour, J. Ogden, 16
Arrants, Aimee, 50, 52, 59
Asinof, Eliot, 47, 83, 127, 196
Attell, Abe, 46, 47, 48, 212
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 99
Bader, Lore, 106, 113
Bailey, Bill, 158–59, 170. See also Veeck, William, Sr.
Baker, Newton, 54, 70, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 92, 95, 113, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 125, 137, 139, 140, 151, 152
Baker, William F., 19, 20, 21, 30, 47, 57
Barbare, Walter, 113, 114
Barber, Turner, 34, 58, 61, 199
Barnes, Jess, 86–87, 88, 93, 137
Barrow, Ed, 25, 26, 28, 30, 35, 38–45, 70, 71, 72, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 101, 102, 106, 112, 113, 114, 115, 120, 146, 147, 151, 154, 163, 164, 166, 171, 172, 175, 180, 199
Barry, Jack, 25, 26, 30, 31
Bartman, Steve, 8
Becker, Henry “Kid”, 9, 210, 214
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 99
Benton, Rube, 87, 107, 120, 137
Bierce, Ambrose, 211
Bluhm, Red, 113, 114
Bonds, Barry, 213
Boone, Aaron, 8
Boston, during WWI, 69–70,80–84
Bressler, Rube, 95
Bryan, William Jennings, 169
Buckner, Bill, 8
Burns, Bill, 46, 47, 120
Burns, George, 93
Bush, Joe, 30, 35, 76, 166, 171, 202
Caesar, Irving, 28
Canavan, Hugh, 117, 128
Carrigan, Bill, 25
Carter, Paul, 23, 58, 107, 108, 138, 201
Causey, Red, 93
Chamberlain, George Earle, 56
Chance, Frank, 7, 129
Chapman, Ray, 156–57
Chase, Hal, 107, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 128, 129, 130, 131–32, 194, 195, 196, 210, 212
Chicago, during WWI, 66–69, 158–60, 163
Cicotte, Eddie, 3, 4, 7, 9, 80, 194–95, 206, 210, 214
Clarke, Tommy, 200, 201
Clemenceau, Georges, 70
Clemens, Roger, 213
Cobb, Ty, 84, 127
Cochran, George, 114
Cohan, George M., 5, 54
Comiskey, Charles, 4, 9, 30, 79, 83, 104, 139, 159
Connery, John T., 14, 15
Costello, James, 121, 123, 124, 125, 126, 128, 129
Craighead, Myral, 19
Craighead, Walter, 18, 19, 20, 57, 153, 160, 190
Criger, Lou, 4
Crowder, Enoch, 32, 86, 87, 92, 93, 105, 106, 115, 116, 118, 119, 120, 139
Crusinberry, James, 17, 46, 64, 81, 93, 105, 137, 174
Czar Nicholas II, 56
Daly, Tom, 201
Daniels, Josephus, 70
Darrow, Clarence, 68
Deal, Charley, 105, 125, 135, 138, 199, 201
Demaree, Al, 93
Dent, Bucky, 8
Dewey, Donald, 131
Dillhoefer, Pickles, 20
Donovan, Bill, 93
Douglas, Phil, 34, 66, 89, 105, 116, 136, 138, 174, 175, 180, 187, 188, 191–93, 202, 206, 207, 208, 209–10
Doyle, Larry, 112
Dreyfuss, Barney, 23
Dryden, Charles, 172, 177
Dubuc, Jean, 114, 120, 172
Duffey, Arthur, 109
Duffy, Hugh, 70
Duffy, Sherman, 161, 200
Ebbets, Charles, 79
Edgewater Beach Hotel, 14, 15
Eight Men Out, 3, 6, 47, 83, 196
Eller, Hod, 75, 128
Elliott, Rowdy, 58, 59, 60, 62, 201
Evans, Billy, 84, 151
Evers, Johnny, 7, 35,
38, 43, 71, 180
Faber, Red, 102
Fairbanks, Douglas, 11, 50, 51, 57
Fein, Sinn, 142
Fisher, Harry, 153
Fitzgerald, John “Honey Fitz,” 70, 191
Flack, Jack, 61–62
Flack, Max, 34, 61–64, 66, 93, 137, 167, 172, 187, 188, 198, 199, 201, 202, 209, 210
Flack, Raymond, 63
Flack, Stella, 63
Flannery, Tim, 8
Flatley, Nick, 76, 190
Fletcher, Art, 87, 88
Fletcher, Ben, 154
Floto, Otto, 107
Flu epidemic of 1918, 61, 156, 182–83, 196, 202–3
Foley, Matt, 162
Fosdick, Raymond, 70
Fournier, Jack, 151
Fowler, Gene, 164, 166, 208
Frazee, Harry, 8, 10, 25, 26–31, 34, 36–37, 42, 72, 74, 78, 101, 113, 115, 118, 119, 139, 164, 179, 197, 205, 206
Frick, Ford, 60
Fullerton, Hugh, 79, 106, 117, 161, 167, 174, 199, 208
Funkhouser, M.L.C., 69
Gandil, Chick, 2, 4
Gerard, James, 98–99, 100
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 99
Goldman, Emma, 143
Goldstein, Robert, 100
Gonzalez, Eusebio, 114
Grabiner, Harry, 9, 10, 21, 47, 48, 107, 123, 206, 210, 214
Greenberg, Hank, 120
Griffith, Clark, 76, 116, 118, 139, 151
Groh, Heinie, 75, 131
Guard, Percy, 154
Hansen, Harry, 186
Harper, Harry, 112
Harrison, Carter, Jr., 69
Haywood, Bill, 143, 144, 154, 158
Healey, Charles, 69
Hempstead, Harry, 118
Hendrix, Claude, 23, 34, 48, 64, 66, 94, 105, 106, 107, 108, 136, 138, 174–75, 187, 188, 207, 209, 210
Henry, John, 116
Herrmann, Garry, 32, 88, 139, 159, 160, 161, 168, 178, 179, 183, 184, 189, 190, 196, 205, 206, 208
Herzog, Buck, 5, 107, 108, 194, 208, 238
Heydler, John, 107, 108, 131, 178, 189, 190, 196, 205
High, Hughey, 114–15
Hoblitzell, Dick, 35, 70, 71, 74, 77, 100, 101, 106
Hochstadter, Harry, 164, 166
Holke, Walter, 93
Holli, Melvin, 100
Hollocher, Charley, 22, 45–46, 64, 66, 105, 117, 133–38, 140, 143, 144–45, 167, 172, 187, 198, 201, 208
Hollocher, Jacob, 134
Hollocher, Joseph, 134
Hollocher, Milton, 134, 135
Hollocher, Ruth, 145
Hooper, Harry, 28, 35, 41, 43, 44, 45, 77, 101, 109–15, 119, 151, 163, 171, 179, 188, 190, 197, 198, 202, 204
Hoover, Herbert, 16, 127
Hornsby, Rogers, 20, 21, 22, 23, 34, 49, 50, 53, 58
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