100 Years Ago 2 Weekends Ago: Cap Anson/Rube Foster

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100 Years Ago 2 Weekends Ago: Cap Anson/Rube Foster

Posted By: Howard W. Rosenberg

While the fall of 1908 is big for 100th anniversaries related to Merkle and the Cubs World Series title, a third purely having to do with Chicago baseball -- all the teams involved were Chicago ones -- took place earlier this month, and it arguably produced one of the ten most interesting box scores in baseball history -- Cap Anson on one Chicago semi-pro team and future Negro Leagues founder Rube Foster on the opposing one; see

http://blackathlete.net/artman2/publish/BASN_Focus_On_History_4/A_Significant_Anniversary.shtml

It's a link to something I've written, so I hope no one minds!

Howard

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