Home Addresses of Deadball Era Players

[ronniehatesjazz]

Does anyone know a reference for the home addresses of players from the deadball era to WW2? TTM would obviously be futile but being into baseball and local history I thought it'd be interesting to see where some of the players used to live.

BTW, I live in Cincinnati... less than a mile away from where "Kelly's Killers" played their home games in 1891. Thought it'd be neat to see if any of the players lived nearby.

[Mark17]

I once found an article in an old Minneapolis newspaper that gave the address where Rube Waddell was boarding in 1911. I went there hoping to find an old building where I could imagine Rube walking in and out of the doorway, etc. But it was a vacant lot.

[toppcat]

Maybe work backwards from an older Jack Smalling list?

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

Ancestry.com. Go nuts.

[Casey2296]

I've always had a liking for Harry Hooper, he was a West Coast guy from the beginning, born not far from here in a town that no longer exists, he retired to the town where my office is located, and is buried walking distance from my home in a small church cemetery.

Following his retirement from baseball, Harry Hooper lived in Capitola and opened a real estate firm. He was named player-manager for San Francisco's minor league team in the Pacific Coast League in 1927.

Hooper was appointed postmaster in Capitola in 1933. He held that position for 24 years. He was active in civic affairs through the chamber of commerce and the improvement club. "He was one of Capitola's most prominent local citizens. Whenever something was going on in Capitola from the 1920s to the 1960s, he was involved," local museum curator Frank Perry said.

Hooper was selected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1971.

Hooper died at the age of 87 in Santa Cruz, California. He had been healthy enough to attend that summer's Baseball Hall of Fame induction ceremonies and he had gone duck hunting less than a month before he died. Harry Hooper Jr said that Hooper had died of old age. He said that Hooper was the oldest living member of the Hall of Fame before his death.
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[tedzan]

For whatever it is worth, here is a list of the birthplaces of BB players from the top 13 states during the "deadball" era (found in the T206 set)......

1) Pennsylvania - 70 (Jennings, Mathewson, Plank, Wagner)
2) Ohio - 46
3) New York - 44
4) Illinois - 27
5) Massachusetts - 18
6) Missouri - 15
7) Michigan - 13
8) California - 11
9) Wisconsin - 11
10) Indiana - 10
11) Texas - 9
12) Iowa - 8
13) Maryland - 8


TED Z

T206 Reference
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[michael3322]

Originally Posted by tedzan

For whatever it is worth, here is a list of the birthplaces of BB players from the top 13 states during the "deadball" era (found in the T206 set)......

1) Pennsylvania - 70 (Jennings, Mathewson, Plank, Wagner)
2) Ohio - 46
3) New York - 44
4) Illinois - 27
5) Massachusetts - 18
6) Missouri - 15
7) Michigan - 13
8) California - 11
9) Wisconsin - 11
10) Indiana - 10
11) Texas - 9
12) Iowa - 8
13) Maryland - 8


TED Z

T206 Reference
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This is fascinating. Are there specific reasons why so many hail from Pennsylvania? Team location? Teams primarily in Northeast at that time?

[Casey2296]

Originally Posted by michael3322

This is fascinating. Are there specific reasons why so many hail from Pennsylvania? Team location? Teams primarily in Northeast at that time?

My guess would be were those were all the industrial population centers at the time.

[tedzan]

Originally Posted by michael3322

This is fascinating. Are there specific reasons why so many hail from Pennsylvania? Team location? Teams primarily in Northeast at that time?

Regarding Pennsylvania....many of the numerous coal-mining regions of this state each had semi-pro Baseball leagues, which developed some really great ballplayers.


TED Z

T206 Reference
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[nwobhm]

Originally Posted by michael3322

This is fascinating. Are there specific reasons why so many hail from Pennsylvania? Team location? Teams primarily in Northeast at that time?

FARMING! Both versions.

Look up how many players were from Arkansas circa 1920-1970. Look up the Arkansas population vs US total. Some teams were fielding 2-3 guys from Arkansas. Some games had 4-5 starters from Arkansas. White Sox playing Red Sox in the 50’s for example:

George Kell
Gene Stephens
Ellis Kinder
Sherm Lollar

In the 60’s White Sox playing the Orioles:

Brooks Robinson
Floyd Robinson
Gene Stephens
Tommy Mccraw
Sherm Lollar

In the 34’ WS the Arkansas Dean brothers pitched every St Louis win.

[swarmee]

Originally Posted by michael3322

This is fascinating. Are there specific reasons why so many hail from Pennsylvania? Team location? Teams primarily in Northeast at that time?

Air conditioning not widely deployed in the South yet.

Here's the list of members of House of Representatives by state after each decade's census:
https://www2.census.gov/programs-sur...0-tableC1.xlsx

[peanuts]

Originally Posted by michael3322

This is fascinating. Are there specific reasons why so many hail from Pennsylvania? Team location? Teams primarily in Northeast at that time?

At that time, Pennsylvania was home to about 10% of the entire US population, second only in total population to New York.
As Ted mentioned, there was a robust semi-pro circuit as a result of the many factory and mine teams.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by ronniehatesjazz

Does anyone know a reference for the home addresses of players from the deadball era to WW2? TTM would obviously be futile but being into baseball and local history I thought it'd be interesting to see where some of the players used to live.

BTW, I live in Cincinnati... less than a mile away from where "Kelly's Killers" played their home games in 1891. Thought it'd be neat to see if any of the players lived nearby.

There were quite a few addresses in the old hobby publications, if I recall correctly..
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[milkit1]

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