This Still Works - This Week in Montgomery Baseball History for Mar 14-20

This week, in the first of several history installments, we will focus on events of the past as we wait for what is to come. To help offset the lack of baseball, over the course of the week I will be posting several reports on my recent research and even offering up a contest!

THIS WEEK IN MONTGOMERY BASEBALL

MARCH 14 1906
Word of Rube Waddell being attacked and robbed in Montgomery hit the papers.

While the star lefthander did have his wallet taken, it couldn't have been a big heist - manager Connie Mack knows better than to let the Rube have more than two dollars at once.

Rube reports the crime, then disappears again for a day before returning to the A's spring training workouts.

MARCH 15 1906 
The Montgomery ball club ownership hangs a $3ooo purse for its players to split as incentive to win the Southern league.

 1906 Montgomery captain Mullaney

MARCH 16 1921 
Big Sum offered for Montgomery's Steel Arm Dickey - its learned that Boston offered $5000 for the pitcher but is turned down.

Dickey remains and pitches for the Gray Sox as the ace of the team known as the "best colored outfit in the south"

Steel Arm Dickey

MARCH 17 1923 
The Philadelphia A's beat the Bham Barons 12-7 at Cramton Bowl in Montgomery.  

 

MARCH 18 1905 
Governor Cummings meets with the NY Highlanders as they hold spring training at Montgomery ... Sporting Life says that NY planned to break camp on the 18th, leaving for a game at New Orleans on the 20th.

1905 NY Highlanders player work out at Montgomery

 

MARCH 19 1908 
S.H.Smith, a student at Alabama Polytechnic Institute (Auburn Uni), who was struck on the back of the head by a thrown ball in a game on the 18th, dies without regaining consciousness.

Previously this was the only news source I had.

Since then I have found an article in the Birmingham News that offers more info on that tragic event.

MARCH 19 1908 
Philadelphia vs Montgomery, the Athletics soundly defeat the locals 11-1.

MARCH 20 1904 
Announcement comes that W.H.Raglan has bought Mgm team. Raglan is one of the heads of Montgomery street railway. The team would change hands again by the end of the following year.

MARCH 20 1911 

Thos. Kilby

Sunday Baseball Bill Goes Through
The Measure For Mobile is Passed by Senate By 12 to 11.

Bart Chamberlain’s Sunday baseball bill came to the senate and passed by nearly a tie vote of 12 to 11. Mr. Kilby speaking against the bill, compared the city of Mobile with Sodom and Gomorrah, and said the bill was an effort to repeal the Ten Commandments.