Holding the ball in the center of the picture is the team’s pitcher, Billy Holland, who was about 18 years old at the time. Holland went on to have a storied pitching career with the best black teams in the nation, in an era before professional baseball was...
Explore the photographic history of baseball in Aurora in the current mini exhibit in the display case in the entryway of the David L. Pierce Art & History Center.
This article originally appeared on Kane County Connects as a part of a series on Kane County’s amazing history. The phrase “boys of summer” first came from the pen of the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas in 1934. It was a bittersweet lament about vanished youth. Later,...
By John Jaros As the baseball season is underway, this month we look back 130 years, to April 1891, for a baseball story from that bygone era. That April, Chicago’s National League team (the team that would later become the “Cubs”), led by player-manager Adrian “Cap”...
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