1909 Kansas City Giants
Stories are placed in order of the date they appeared.
April 24, 1909
Dayton, OH
"Kansas City, Kansas, the Mecca in Baseball. - The Kansas City Kansas Giants, under the management and leadership of Chicago Jack Johnson, the former Union Giants manager, have the fastest team in the West. The team has not lost a game so far this season, having been playing the city leaguers right along. The club has its own park and grounds, and is drawing fine and large crowds, and later on in the season it will without a doubt be heard from. The lineup is as follows: Tenny and Davis, catchers; Bill Norman, Skinner and Trimble, pitchers. McAdoo, 1st base; Johnson, 2nd base; J. Norman, 3rd base; Moss, short stop; Sterman, left field; Robinson, center field; Wilkins, right field. The team will travel a good deal during the season, and will be pleased to book games with all or any of the leading clubs through these parts. Address J.T. Johnson, 1512 North Fifth Street, Kansas City, Kansas."
May 15, 1909
St. Louis, MO
"Kansas City, Missouri Diamond Dust. - The Giants have gone to St. Louis to meet the Tigers. - The Giants, under Jack Johnson's management, formerly of the Chicago Unions, are building up an enviable record. Since Easter Sunday they have played thirteen games against the fastest teams hereabouts, and have yet to meet their first defeat. - The (Kansas City) Monarchs opened their season late, and have met their only defeat at the hands of the Giants, but they are expected to hold their own during the rest of the season."
May 18, 1909
St. Louis, MO
"St. Louis Tigers to Meet the Kansas City Giants - Will Play a Series of Four Games - Tigers Would Meet Louisville Giants or Cubs. - Special to the Freeman. - St. Louis, Missouri. - The Kansas City Giants will be in this city next week, and will cross bats with the St. Louis Tigers in a series of four games, beginning Tuesday afternoon. They will play Tuesday, Wednesday, Sunday, and Monday. The Tigers would like to meet the Louisville Giants or the Louisville Cubs on the Fourth of July or in a series."
St. Louis, MO
"St. Louis Tigers Lose to Kansas City Giants - Hard Hitting by Giants Noses Stanley Green's Sluggers OUt of First Game of Series of Four. - Special to the Freeman. - St. Louis, Missouri. - The Kansas City Giants defeated the St. Louis Tigers, Tuesday, in the first of their four-game series, by a score of 7 to 6, at Handlan's Park. The Tigers fought the Giants hard to break even in the series."
May 19, 1909
St. Louis, MO
"Kansas City Giants at St. Louis Tigers Wednesday."
St. Louis, MO
"Tigers Lose Two More. - Kansas City, Kansas Giants Won Three Games of Series. - St. Louis, Missouri. - The Tigers have lost three of a four-game series to the Kansas City Giants. The score of second game, Giants 5, Tigers 2."
May 23, 1909
St. Louis, MO
"Kansas City Giants at St. Louis Tigers Sunday."
May 24, 1909
St. Louis, MO
"Kansas City Giants at St. Louis Tigers Monday."
St. Louis, MO
"The fourth game was postponed on account of rain."
August 10, 1909
Chicago, IL
"Couldn't Show Missourians. - Kansas City Giants Held Their Own Against Cuban Stars. - Special to the Freeman. - Chicago, Illinois. - The Cuban Stars won the second game of the series with the Kansas City Giants, Tuesday of last week, at Anson's Park, defeating the Missouri boys by the score of 3 to 1."
August 11, 1909
Chicago, IL
"The Giants defeated the Cubans Wednesday, August 11, at Anson's Park, in the third game of the series by the score of 2 to 0. The game was called in the last part of the sixth on account of heavy rain."
August 12, 1909
Chicago, IL
"On Thursday the Giants won the last game of the series with the Cuban Stars at Anson's Park by the score of 4 to 3."
September 11, 1909
Indianapolis, IN
"The Kansas City, Kansas Giants now claim the world's colored baseball championship since they defeated the Leland Giants. The Philadelphia Giants claim it, and the St. Paul Gophers claim it. Who's who? The St. Paul Gophers have the strongest claim. They beat the Lelands in a five-game championship series the last of July. The other two teams defeated the Chicago aggregations after they had surrendered the title."
Oklahoma City, OK
"K.C. Giants Play San Antonio. - Special to the Freeman: - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. - The Kansas City, Kansas Giants played a four-game series with the San Antonio team this week."
October 23, 1909
Oklahoma City, OK
"Rube Washington Heard From. - After some little time, we are favored with hearing from good old never-failing Rube Washington, playing them big way out in Oklahoma city, Oklahoma. Speaking of clever pitchers, our memory is brilliant and can never escape the name of Rube Washington, because he has done much to merit friendly thoughts of him. Rube used to do some wonderful delivering for the A.B.C.s of Indianapolis a season or so ago; he brought them down in the grand stand and bleachers by his electrified pitching. He was known as the little savior of tight games. The sports always put their money on whenever Rube held the box. Now they say he is carrying on the same foolishness in the far-away West."
"Rube Washington in the West. - Famous Pitcher Resting Out in Oklahoma for the Winter. - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, October 22. - Harry Washington, well known as Rube, the steel-arm pitcher, is resting up here after a strenuous season of baseball. The past year was a banner year for Rube. At the first of Spring he started with the French Lick, Indiana team; later he joined the Chicago Unions, and then the Cuban Stars, and finished the season with the Kansas City, Kansas Giants. He claims to have lost only one game in Kansas City. He defeated the Lelands by a score of 5 to 4; the Buxton, Iowa Wonders in a 12-inning game, scoring 3 to 2; he shut out the All-Professionals, score 9 to 0. Rube is considered one of the best tight pinch pitchers in the country."
June 6, 1909
Kansas City, KS
"Kansas City Giants Win Twenty-Sixth Game - Beat Thirteenth Infantry, Company F, of Ft. Leavenworth - Play Wonders of Buxton, Iowa. - Special to the Freeman. - Kansas City, Kansas - The Kansas City, Kansas Giants won their twenty-sixth consecutive game last Sunday when they defeated the Thirteenth Infantry, Company F, of Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. The team has not lost a game this season so far, and have met some of the best clubs throughout the country. Manager Jack Johnson says that he has the best colored club in the world, barring none. The boys were over to St. Louis a couple of weeks ago, and won seven straights from all the leading clubs of that city."
June 11, 1909
Kansas City, KS
"On June 11, 12 and 13 the Kansas City Giants play the strong Buxton Wonders, from Buxton, Iowa, which has the leading club of the State and one of the leading colored teams of the country. The Giants have decided to call off their trip through Oklahoma and Texas, as the teams of that section have failed to come up to standard in the way of terms, and instead the team will make an extended trip North and West through Western Kansas and Nebraska."
June 12, 1909
Kansas City, KS
"June 12 Kansas City Giants vs Buxton Wonders."
June 13, 1909
Kansas City, MO
"Miners Play Monarchs. - Buxton, Iowa Team Will be Seen in Action at Kansas City Sunday. - Kansas City, Missouri. - The Monarchs will play the Buxton, Iowa team tomorrow in this city. The Monarchs is a fast team, and expect to send the Buxton lads away with defeat. A.E. Pullman, 2300 Vine Street, will arrange games with any classy team."
Kansas City, KS
"June 12 Kansas City Giants vs Buxton Wonders."
Kansas City, KS
"Kansas City Giants Beat Miners and Topekans - Miners Lose 13 Inning Game, 1 to 0 - Topeka Catcher's Leg Broke. - Special to the Freeman. - Kansas City, Kansas. - The Kansas City, Kansas Giants and the Buxton, Iowa Wonders played Sunday morning, June 13, a thirteen-inning game, and the score was 1 to 0 in favor of the Giants. In the afternoon the Giants played the Topeka Giants. The game was going on fine until the last half of the fifth inning, when Jack Johnson, the manager of the Kansas City giants, was making a run from third to home, he ran into the catcher of the Topeka Giants and broke the catcher's leg just above the ankle. The Kansas City Giants won the game 7 to 2. Both games were largely attended. Today and Sunday the Monarchs and Giants will play at Riverside Park."
June 20, 1909
Kansas City, MO
"Errors Costly to Monarchs. - Kansas City, Kansas Giants Beat - Pettus's Three-Base Hit Wins Game. - Special to the Freeman. - Kansas City, Kansas. - In a close and exciting game, Sunday, the Kansas City, Kansas Giants defeated the Monarchs for the third time at Riverside Park, 1 to 0. Pettus won the game in the seventh inning, scoring Sternman with a long three-base drive. Both pitchers were in good form. Attendance, 2,500. Score: Monarchs 0, K.C. Giants 1. The Giants challenge any strong team in the city for a purse of from $100 to $500 a side. Call Bell phone West 380, or Home phone West 171, and ask for Jack Johnson. The Giants defeated the Monarchs Saturday by a score of 12 to 4."
July 4, 1909
Kansas City, MO
"New Orleans Eagles at Kansas City, Missouri, July 4."
Kansas City, MO
"Eagles to Fly North. - Kings of the Air in Search of Prey - To Play Kansas City, Kansas Giants Next Week. - Special to the Freeman. - Shreveport, Louisiana. - Up to date the Eagles have played the following towns: Kenner, Houma, Morgan City, New Iberia, Lafayette, Lake Charles, in Louisiana, and Orange, Houston, San Antonio, Austin, Waco, and Waxahachie, in Texas. Altogether they have played 29 games, won 17 and lost 12. They are going North to play some of the strong teams. July 4 and 5 they will play the Kansas City Giants."
July 5, 1909
Kansas City, MO
"New Orleans Eagles at Kansas City, Missouri, July 5."