So today I spent an hour looking through mill league pictures that I could find on Google images. It is always nice to take a break, give the mind a rest and just paint your own story by looking at the pictures. I really believe that you can learn so much from looking at a picture because each face or place can tell such an amazing story.
I began my paper for Interm today and hope to get a start on my presentation this weekend. I know to some this seems crazy but this works best for me to get an early start.I am just now finding my niche at 28 in my writing style so I look for anyway to improve and the earlier I write the more time I have to read through and I think this really is helping me find my writing style.
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| Charlie Wilson Pacolet Mill 1927 |
Here are some pictures I found today, sorry I overload you all with pictures but I truly am having such an amazing time with this project!!!!! So sad that we will be done in a little over two weeks.
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| Fulton Mill Team 1925 |
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| Shoeless Joe |
Funny, it doesn't look like any of them are wearing bling of any variety!
ReplyDeleteBy the way...did these guys have any kind of endorsement deals? Were they ever in advertisements, even just in the small towns? Or have baseball cards?
(I seem to remember something about baseball cards starting in cigarette packs...is that true?)
And good job with starting early. Nobody---not even PHDs or Nobel Prize Winners---ever writes a good paper as a single draft!
It was a time when baseball was so simple and great. I think because it was forced out of need. The uniforms came from whatever they could throw together unless they had a "nice" mill boss. In terms of endorsements that was generally reserved for the minor leagues in the area. IE. Greenville Spinners, Anderson Electricians. These of course were made up of some mill ball players. I have not seen any recurring evidence of endorsements for specific mill teams or players for that matter.
DeleteAs for the baseball cards that is true, they were packaged with other items as "bonus" items such tobacco, candy or gum. This was true from about 1869-1930. The depression had a dramatic effect on baseball cards and the production stopped during WWII.
I am writing a research paper on mill league baseball in the upstate for one of my english classes at Clemson now.
ReplyDeleteI was wondering if you have found any information that said that teams in the area had any chants for their team or songs to represent the individual teams?
For example Clemson as the Clemson Cadence Count.