The Old Ball Game (30 page)

Devery, William,
63

Devlin, Art,
140

Devore, Josh,
170
,
187

Dewey, George,
52

Diamond Café,
7
–8,
10
,
86
,
152

Doheny, Ed,
3

Dolan, Father Joseph F.,
81

Donlin, “Turkey Mike,”
106
,
121
,
125
,
194

appointed captain,
139

marauding crowd incited by,
46

McGraw and,
99
,
139
,
157
,
170

overview of,
45

photograph of,
126

violence, arrests, and imprisonment,
53
,
157

Dovey, George,
143
,
148
,
149

Doyle, “Dirty Jack,”
4
,
5
,
152

Doyle, “Laughing Larry,”
110
,
125
,
147
,
168
,
175
,
177
,
190

Dreyfuss, Ban,
105
,
108

drunkenness,
82

Dunne, Finley Peter,
91

Ebbets, Charlie,
143
,
149

economic panic of '93.
See
financial panic of '
93

Emslie, Bob,
109
,
140

endorsements, product,
130
,
131

Engle, Clyde,
184

ethnic minorities,
114
.
See also specific ethnic groups

Evers, Johnny,
140
–43

Ewing, Buck,
4

eyesight,
14

Factoryville, Pennsylvania,
76
–78,
149

fadeaway pitch,
38
–39

fans,
5
,
68
.
See also
crowds

Fenway Park,
180
–82

fictional literature about baseball,
130
.
See also
poems

films about baseball,
130

finances,
101
–2.
See also
salaries;
specific topics

financial panic of '
93
,
17

Fitzgerald, John (“Honey Fitz”),
180

Fletcher, Art,
156
–57

Fogel, Horace,
51

football,
33

compared with baseball,
12
–13

Forsyth Park,
65

Fowler, Gene,
207

Fox, Richard K.,
62

freak pitch,
38

Freedman, Andrew,
5
,
18
,
56
,
154

attack on Brush,
17

Brooklyn and,
42

George David and,
4

Giants bought from,
60

Giants purchased by,
17

Horace Fogel and,
51

Mathewson and,
10
,
42
,
43
,
46
,
47

McGraw and,
54
,
94

media and,
58

negative reputation and criticisms of,
4
,
17
–18

personality,
17

physical appearance,
17

Frisch, Frankie (“Fordham Flash”),
132
,
192

Fuller,
158

Fullerton, Hugh,
29
,
207

gambling pools,
177

games,
11
,
12

gamesmanship.
See
muckerism

Gardner, Larry,
185

Gay Nineties,
90
,
113

George, King,
174

German-Americans,
44
–45,
96
–97,
115
,
199

Giants.
See
New York Giants

Girl and the Pennant, The
(Mathewson & Young),
130

Goatville,
212

Golden, Harry,
151
–52

Grange, Red,
210

Grant, Harvard Eddie,
177
,
200

Hall of Fame,
23
,
109
,
115
,
222
,
223

hand-eye coordination,
14

Hanlon, “Silent Ned”/“Foxy Ned,”
23
–25,
42
,
47
,
87
,
99

Harlem,
5

“Harlemites,”
4

Havana,
80

Henriksen, Olaf “Swede,”
182

Herald Square,
152
,
179

heroism,
209
,
221
–22

sportswriters and,
210

Herrmann, August,
143
,
149

Herrmann, Garry,
194
,
195
,
203

Herzog, Buck,
114
,
135
,
147
,
194
,
195

Heydler, John,
87
,
205
,
206

Hickman, Charley “Piano Legs,”
3
–4

Highlanders,
56
,
63
,
106

Hilltop Park,
63
,
103
–4

hit-and-run,
26

Hitchcock, Tommy,
210

Hofman, “Circus” Solly,
140

Hogan, Shanty,
158
–59

Holmes, Ducky,
17
–18

home plate, configuration of,
41

Honig, Donald,
124
–25

Hooper, Harry,
184

Hoppe, Willie,
152

Hopper, DeWolf,
49
,
115
,
116
,
125

Hopper, Hedda,
49

horse racing,
23
,
69

Hurst, Tim,
9

industrial revolution,
15

Inter-League Series,
112

Iowa,
80

Irish,
18
–20,
44
,
45
,
97
–100,
159
.
See also
McGraw

Jackson, “Shoeless Joe,”
114

Jennings, Hughie,
92
,
149

background and life history,
81

batting averages,
24

Brooklyn and,
42

in Hall of Fame,
23

on Mathewson,
168

McGraw and,
24
,
81
,
83
,
86
,
172

pitching and,
81

Jews,
96
–97.
See also
anti-Semitism

Johnson, Byron Bancroft “Ban,”
93
,
105

in Baltimore,
43
–44

Brush on,
60

death,
212

McGraw and,
43
,
45
,
46
,
53
,
56
,
212

McGraw on,
54

moved Orioles to New York,
63

violent behavior and,
53

Western League taken over by,
31

Johnson, Walter,
115
,
154
,
219

Johnstone, James,
109

Jones, Bobby,
210

Joyce, Bill,
18

Jupiter Pluvius,
167

Keeler, “Wee Willie”

batting averages,
25

Brooklyn and,
42

death,
25

in Hall of Fame,
23

as Highlanders' top hitter,
106

McGraw and,
83
,
94
,
106

McGraw's fight with,
86
–87

in Orioles,
25
–27

physical description,
25

Keith, Mary Catherine,
30

Kelley, Joe,
20
,
23
–25,
42
,
83

Kelly, J. T.,
109

Kelly, Joe.
See
Kelley, Joe

Kelly, Mike “King,”
19
–20,
26

Klem, Bill (“The Great Arbitrator”),
168
,
194

Kling, Johnny,
147

Knickerbocker, Diedrich,
120

Knickerbocker Base Ball Club,
14

Knickerbockers,
18

Kroh, Rube,
141

La Floridita Bar,
80

Lajoie, Larry,
114

Lambs Club,
144
,
211
–12

Landis, Judge,
153
,
217
,
221

Lardner, Ring,
104
,
112
,
176
,
185
,
196
,
207
,
209

left-handed players,
106

Leitner, George,
70

Lewis, Duffy,
185

Lewisburg,
223
–24

Lieb, Fred,
201

Louisville Colonels,
16
,
41

Macbeth, W. J.,
149

Mack, Connie.
See
McGillicuddy, Cornelius

major league teams,
17

managers,
4

Marquard, Rube,
157
,
180

vs.
Chief Bender,
189

on Mathewson,
36

as number-two Giant pitcher,
69

photograph of,
181

replaced McGinnity as pitcher,
161

violence,
157

in World Series,
161
,
164
,
165
,
168

Masterson, Bat,
58
–59

Mathewson, Christopher “Christy” Jr.,
170
,
174
,
196
,
204
,
218
,
220
,
224
.
See also under
Mathewson, Jane Stoughton

Mathewson, Christopher (“Christy”/“Matty”),
1
.
See also specific topics

at 1924 World Series as reporter,
218
–20

aggression,
108

on baseball,
51

benefit for,
216
–17

characterizations of,
68
,
133
,
209
,
221
,
222

in college,
32
,
39
,
52
.
See also
Bucknell College

death,
39
,
219
–23

remembered after,
221
–24

death of brothers,
198

as “debutante,”
3

desire to be manager of Giants,
176

early career,
3

failure to prosper with Giants,
32

family background,
73
,
76
–78,
198

films,
130

as first full-blooded American sports idol,
69

forty-fifth birthday,
219

gambling,
36
,
125

Giants' purchase of,
3

in Hall of Fame,
222
,
223

illnesses,
88
–89,
137
,
203
,
205
,
215

managing Cincinnati,
132
,
197
,
205

McGraw on,
133

in media,
88
,
167
–68

“muscular Christianity,”
36
,
131

nearing end of career,
176

nicknames,
33
,
53
,
128
,
135

“Big Six,”
135
–36

other sports and games played by,
171
–72

checkers,
127
–28,
171

overview,
1
–3

performance,
47
,
52
,
60
,
68
,
105
,
137
,
151
,
175

personality,
68
,
125
,
127
,
132
,
133

photographs of,
2
,
33
,
35
,
52
,
55
,
131
,
136
,
166
,
171
,
195
,
197
,
200
,
218

in fine form,
113

in World War I uniform,
202

physical characteristics,
2
,
5
,
113
,
127
,
128

as pitcher,
9
–10,
38
–39,
175
–76

fadeaway pitch,
38
–39

first major league hit (triple),
9

“freak pitch,”
38

no-hitters,
113

popularity,
111
,
133
,
186
,
190
,
191
,
209
,
216
–17,
221

positioning his outfielders,
126
–27

as president of Boston Braves,
217

product endorsements,
130
,
131

reaction to third defeat at World Series,
185
–87

reputation,
124
–25,
133
,
209

return to Giants in 1901,
46

in sanitarium,
216

siblings,
77
,
198

sportsmanlike demeanor,
108

sportsmanship,
132

tombstone,
220

tributes to,
221
,
223

World Series dominated by,
121
–22