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Originally Posted by btcarfagno
...Also, they resemble hats worn by the White Sox during their "World Tour" with the Giants in 1913. That White Sox team made a stop in Kansas City in 1913, but I have not been able to discern any type of flood from around that time. The two Kansas City floods that I see mentioned happened in 1914, one in early May and the other in September. The White Sox did also make a swing through St Louis in September of 1914 as well.
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The Sox played in Detroit on May 1st, and then in St. Louis May 2nd through May 5th, and then had a home game on May 6th. There was no time for an exhibition game in western Missouri or eastern Kansas on this trip. On the September trip, they played at home on the 13th, then in St. Louis from the 14th through the 16th, and then had another home game on the 17th. Again, there was no time for an exhibition game west of St. Louis, and there was no reason for the team to travel anywhere near Kansas City to get between St. Louis and Detroit or between St. Louis and Chicago. It just doesn't make sense that they were escaping a Kansas City flood in May or September of that year. Maybe it was the World Tour team, or maybe it was in California during spring training--sometimes the writing on the back of a photo is incorrect.