1909 Kansas City Giants

A Calendar, Including Newspaper Clippings, of the 1909 Kansas City Giants

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 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."

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."