1910 Brooklyn Royal Giants
Stories are placed in order of the date they appeared.
January 26?, 1910
Palm Beach, FL
"Rube Foster Back in Form, Pitches a Great Game, Four to Nothing. The Leland Giants for 1910 Look Like the Real Goods; Secretary Moseley Happy. - The Palm Beach Daily News of Wednesday, January 26th, had this to say: At the first game of baseball for the season, there was a large attendance and everyone who was present had an enjoyable time, though the score of 4 to 1, in favor of the Leland Gaints team may have created a sad feeling for the enthusiastic fans who wished to see the Royal Giants carry off the victory. Nevertheless, all were satisfied with the good and exciting game. A great deal of life and snap was thrown into the game by the humorous catching in which George Johnson engaged, Johnson was first baseman for the Leland Giants, Al Robinson was first baseman for the Royal Giants and was equally as good. There was no lack of musical accompaniment and the brass band was most generous in its contribution of one lively selection after another. Rube Foster, the Colored Champion Ball Pitcher of the World, added grace and dignity to his title as he struck out 4 men and gave the Royal Giants only 3 hits, while the Leland Giants got 4 runs and 11 hits off of Earle, Pitcher for the Royal Giants. They play again next Wednesday. The park owners association of this city (Chicago) met last Monday and unanimously elected the Leland Giants and the Gunthers to membership. This makes 8 clubs with parks, and 8 without, in the association, which makes it twice as strong as the city league. It meets again Monday for the election of officers. George McGurn, William Niesen, and Beauregard F. Moseley has been appointed on the nominating committee."
March 4, 1910
Palm Beach, FL
"The line-up for the year of the Leland Giants is the strongest and best they ever had, as is evidenced from the fact that in their last games at Palm Beach on the 4th instant they beat the crack Royal Giants of Brooklyn, New York, four to nothing, with Foster, Booker and Petway the battery. In this game the mighty Rube returned to his former self and permitted the Royals but one scratch hit. This is indicative of what the mighty Rube will be when the season opens May 15th at their new Park."
March 12, 1910
Palm Beach, FL
"The Royal Giants and the Chicago Leland Giants are still playing some fast ball down in Florida. They will be ready to open season in April."
April 16, 1910
Indianapolis, IN
"In the Field of Sport. - By Harold C. McGath. - Where to Write Ball Clubs. - Their Names and Addresses of the Managers. - The following are the names and addresses of managers of prominent colored baseball clubs in the United States: - Brooklyn Royal Giants - Nat C. Strong, World Building, New York City."
"Championship Race to be Hot. - Teams All Over the Country Will Fight for it. - Perhaps the most talked about event in baseball that is to happen this season will be the try-out for the world's colored championship by the most prominent colored baseball clubs in the country. It is expected that the world's series will begin immediately after the closing games of the various leagues throughout the United States. There is a longer list of teams of standing which will compete for the pennant than last year, and every one of them is working hard to get into the championship ranks, so that they might be given a chance at winning the flag. So far the list is quite limited as to the teams that will compete for the supremacy mark. It includes Leland's Chicago Giants, Leland Giants, Cuban Giants, St. Louis Giants, Birmingham, Alabama Giants, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Giants, Royal Giants of Brooklyn, New York, Kansas City Kansas Giants, Kansas City, Missouri Royal Giants, Louisville Cubs, St. Paul Gophers, and Minneapolis Keystones. - Should Award a Cup. - The Freeman is of the opinion that the various managers should get together and make the contest the more interesting by appropriating a certain amount to use for prizes. A loving cup of real silver should serve as the price to be won by the club winning the world's championship. It is also slated that these games are to be played in Chicago this year, where baseball is being richly supported each year, although much talk is going the rounds concerning the idea of holding the battles in New York."
April 23, 1910
Chicago, IL
"Radical Change in Baseball Schedule. - Royal Giants Lose Captain Johnson. Cuban Giants will Open Season in New York May 1. - We are reliably informed that a radical change has taken place in the schedule for this season among baseball clubs and players. Jack Johnson, who as captain of the Royal Giants led them to victory for two successive seasons, has booked with the Leland Giants at Chicago. Satterfield, second baseman; Bragg, third baseman; Clarence Williams, catcher; Robinson, first baseman; Mike Brown, outfielder, and Reese, pitcher, have been signed by Manager Bright of the Cuban Giants. Lloyd, who has been the heavy hitting shortstop of the Philadelphia Giants for some years, will cast his fortunes with Rube Foster's Chicago outfiet. Owner Walter Schlichter of the Philadelphia Giants has catpured from Pop Watkins the two fast Addison boys and has signed the best general in colored baseball as manager in the person of Sol White. Manager J.W. Connors, not to be outdone, has secured the services of several fast youngsters and will retain in his lineup such stars as Bradley, Monroe, Buckner, Earl, James, Thomas, Bowman, Mongin, Shipp and Dunbar."
Norwich, CT
"Manager Casey's First Tryout. - Norwich Town Green will see a fast game of baseball this afternoon when Manager Tom Casey's Falls team is to meet the Royal Giants. The City leaguers will probably depend upon the Houlihan battery, and the Darktown Giants will put in Briscoe and Brewer. - Local Baseball Schedule Today. - At Town Green: Falls team (City League) vs. Royal Giants."
Norwich, CT
"Falls Outclass Royal Giants. - Manager Casey's Team Wins by Big Score - But Losers Were Good Comedians. - Manager Tom Casey's Falls team of the City League made an auspicious beginning on Saturday at the Norwich Town green when they defeated the Royal Giants, 30 to 3. The Giants got all their runs in the first inning and thereafter could do nothing, but they kept the crowd well entertained with their comedy stunts. Ben Houlihan's good showing in the box was the particular feature of the game. The following was the lineup of the Falls: - Falls: John Ryan c, Ben Houlihan p, Pat Cox 1b, T. Casey 2b, J. Casey ss, M. Ryan 3b, A Cormier lf, T. Fields cf, J. Smith rf. Two new men signed by Manager Casey recently are expected to prove valuable additions to the Falls team. They are Alfred Cormier and Jack Kane. Cormier has been made assistant manager. He is an old hand at the game, having played at the Falls diamond for several years, generally as outfielder, which will be the position he will fill on the team this season. Jack is counted upon to do his old reliable work in the box, holding up the pitching end in star form."
April 30, 1910
New York, NY
"First Baseman Needed. - By Emmett Bowman of Royal Giants, New York City. - At present in colored baseball circles the aristocracy of the professional diamond, there is a great demand for first basemen. Every year sees a modification of the strength among the players by which those in a particular department seem to lose their effectiveness. Some seasons the catchers show the wear and tear of the game, other seasons infielders and outfielders; but today there is room on the first corner of the infield for a new quota of faces in our profession. Probably it will not be very long before young players will be trying to master the art of playing the first sack instead of other positions on a team, as many first basemen are fast fading away. A first baseman of today must be a quick thinker, strong thrower, and moreover, possess plenty of nerve, is my opinion, as such stars as Ray Wilson, Mike Moore, Chappie Johnson, Harry Smith, Jordan, will soon have to give way to Father time. Since I have taken up first base playing I am as pleased with the position as when I broke into baseball as a pitcher. Another beauty about it all is, a first baseman will as a rule outlast a pitcher in years of service."
May 19, 1910
New York, NY
"Sol White Becomes Manager of Royal Giants. - Veteran Thinks Team Will Win the Championship. - New York, May 19. - Sol White, the veteran baseball star of the City of Brotherly Love, has been engaged for the season of 1910 to manage the New York Royal Giants for Mr. J.W. Conner, and everybody is happy over the happening. It is said that the Royal Giants have their nucleus for a very strong team, and their new manager believes them to be able to hold their own with any team in any section of the country."
May 23, 1910
Pittsfield, MA?
"May 23, Brooklyn Royal Giants at Pittsfield."
May 24, 1910
Pittsfield, MA?
"May 24, Brooklyn Royal Giants at Pittsfield."
May 28, 1910
Brooklyn, NY
"Umpires Should Train Like Players. - By Harry E. Buckner, of Royal Giants, New York City. - Have you ever noticed a ball player jump from a curve ball when the pitcher unexpectedly delivered one after about a week of training in the South? If a ball like that fools a player it certainly fools an umpire. The arbiters should be compelled to get both eyes and bodies in trim for the season. I am going to make a recommendation to that effect, and hope favorable action is taken. There are a number of umpires who are about as nimble on their feet as a baby elephant, and the ball players who are in perfect condition and make daring and successful slides suffer because lumbering umpires are unable to get into position to see the plays as they are made. Do you know that it takes three years of good work to establish a ball player as a star? A man may go through one season with a good record, and then fall down the next. He may even have two good seasons in succession, and then slump in the third, and forever thereafter. But when a player goes through three consecutive seasons and keeps up his good work, you can bank on it that he has arrived, and he'll stick with the big show for a long time. That kind of a man has a right to demand some consideration on the salary question. But when these young fellows, who have done some good work the first season they appear in fast society, come along with a lead pipe and try to hold up a club for a salary that would make even an established veteran glow with pleasure, why, I believe it's time to do a little chloroforming. It's true, of course, that every youngster who plays good ball during his first season with the big leagues is entitiled to a boost. But he shouldn't expect to have his rakeoff put on a par with that of a man who has been going along for some seasons, delivering the choicest kind of baseball goods and drawing the money at the gate. Last year's crop of youngsters was particularly good, but of the entire lot I don't think that one of them is entitled to the amount of money that men who have served their three year's noviate and kept up their gait will receive. They must get increases as their efficiency increases - not everything right in a lump."
May 30, 1910
Brunswick, NJ
"The New Brunswick team now consist of Driscoll, Harter, of the old team, with Keane, Gauvin and Bragen, from the team which succeeded Driscoll's. Sunday they play the Murray Hills, and on Monday, Paterson, in the morning, and the Brooklyn Royal Giants in the afternoon."
August 4, 1910
Freehold, NJ
"Base Ball - The Royal Giants were defeated by the Freehold nine on Thursday afternoon, on the Broadway grounds, after an exciting game, the score standing at the close two runs in favor of Freehold with not a single score by the giants. Smith, who was in the box for Freehold, pitched a fine game allowing but two hits. It was a good game and the grounds should have been crowded."
August 18, 1910
Pittsfield, MA?
"The Royal Giants defeated Pittsfield yesterday by a score of 16 to 6. Cookingham, Pittsfield's new boxman from Worcester, New York, started the game for Pittsfield but out of the first 16 balls thrown only one was a strike. He walked three and had three balls and no strikes on the fourth when he was taken out of the box. Dailey, who succeeded Cookingham, was hit for 16 with a total of 21 bases."
August 19, 1910
Pittsfield, MA?
"August 19, Brooklyn Royal Giants at Pittsfield."
August 20, 1910
Pittsfield, MA?
"August 20, Brooklyn Royal Giants at Pittsfield."
Indianapolis, IN
"Monroe, Earl and Dunvar are the leading batters for the Brooklyn Royal Giants. - Emmett Bowman is putting up the game of his life for the Brooklyn Royal Giants."
August 21, 1910
Harlem, New York, NY
"Fast Teams to Meet. - The banner attraction of the season will be put on on Sunday at Olumpic Field, 136th Street and Fifth Avenue, when three of the strongest semi-professional teams in the country will clash in a big double-header. In the first game the Royal Giants, the colored champions of the world, will meet the famous New Yrok Black Sox. In the second game the winners will play the crack Paterson team, the semi-professional champions of New Jersey. The first game will be called at 2 p.m."
October 8, 1910
New York, NY
"There is a rumor around New York that Harry Buckner is trying to get Robertson over with the Royals. Bucker, Tearle and Robertson are looked upon out East to be the hardest batting pitchers that have been seen in that part of the country this season, regardless of color."
June 11, 1910
Indianapolis, IN
"Baseball Gossip in Chicago. - Buckner, Monroe, and Earl are some of the stars on the Brooklyn Royal Giants."
June 24, 1910
Pittsfield, MA?
"June 24, Brooklyn Royal Giants at Pittsfield."
June 25, 1910
Pittsfield, MA?
"June 25, Brooklyn Royal Giants at Pittsfield."
July 23, 1910
Chicago, IL
"On Monday of this week the Chicago Baseball League passed a rule barring games between its members and all visiting colored ball clubs from now on, the rule being made to include the Cuban clubs that have been playing around the circuit the past two years. The rule will work very badly against the Stars of Cuba, who figured on playing on the Chicago League Circuit after the Cuban Stars left the city. This action means that the Chicago Leaguers will not play visiting colored teams any more in the future."
July 30, 1910
Chicago, IL
"The Brooklyn Royal Giants are cleaning up everything in the East. There will be big doings when the Lelands go East."
"Harry Buckner, Bill Monroe and Emmett Bowmon are starring down East with the Royal Giants. - Billy Earl of the Brookly Royals is one of the fastest men on baseball teams."