1909 Nashville Standard Giants

A Calendar, Including Newspaper Clippings, of the 1909 Nashville Standard Giants

1909 Nashville Standard Giants

Stories are placed in order of the date they appeared.

May 25, 1909

Chicago, IL
"Chicago, Illinois - The Leland Giants have returned from a trip to the South, where they won every game played the locals totaled sixty runs in five games to their opponents' three. They played the first two games in Nashville, Tennessee, winning both in a runaway. The following are the games in detail: Nashville, Tennessee, May 25. - The Leland Giants shut out the Standard Giants. The feature of the game was the pitching of Gatewood and the heavy hitting of the Giants."

May 26, 1909

Chicago, IL
"Nashville, Tennesee, May 26. - The famous colored champions today proved to the Nashville public that they were the real thing by shutting out the Standard Giants a second time. Left Fielder Winston was put in the box by Manager Rube Foster, and he pitched fine ball, just the same as if he was one of the regular staff. He struck out fourteen men and allowed the local boys only two hits."

May 31, 1909

Chicago, IL
"Lelands Play Nashville. - Chicago, Illinois. - The Leland Giants left Monday for Nashville, Tennessee, under the biggest guarantee ever given a semi-professional team. They are scheduled for Louisville, Kentucky and West Baden, Indiana."

June 25, 1909

Indianapolis, IN
"Sprudels Win Game. - West Baden, Indiana. - The Nashville, Tennessee Standard Giants fell easy victims to the West Baden Sprudels Tuesday, the score being 11 to 2. Batteries - Sprudels, Lyons and Pierce; Standard Giants, Monon and O'Neil."

June 27, 1909

Indianapolis, IN
"A.B.C.s Win Two Games from Standard Giants - Tennessee Tossers Hit a Losing Streak at Louisville, West Baden, Indiana, and Indianapolis. - The A.B.C.s won two games from the Standard Giants of Nashville, Tennessee, Thursday and Friday. The first game resulted in a score of 9 to 4. Tiller and Higbee pitched for the locals and Church for the visitors. The second game ended with a score of 14 to 7. Talbott pitched for the A.B.C.s and Moorman and O'Neal for the Tennesseans. As the score shows, the home boys doubled the total marks on their opponents. Davis made a home run with two men on bases in the eighth. Herron and Coleman also made the circuit. Higbee stretched a two-bagger into a three-base hit, and then walked in home while Watkins, the Giants' catcher, stood waiting for him - having fun with the visitors."

July 4, 1909

Indianapolis, IN
"Swap Games. - Memphis, Tennessee. - The local team played a Fourth of July two-game series with Nashville winning one by a score of 3 to 2 in eleven innings and losing the second by a score of 7 to 5."