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West Baden Sprudels
The West Baden Sprudels were an early Negro league baseball team that played as an independent club owned by the Burnett-Pollard-Rogers Baseball Club Company, where Edward Rogers was the Chief Officer. Founding The Sprudels appear to have been from Springs Valley, Indiana, but they often frequented baseball diamonds near the West Baden Springs Hotel in West Baden Springs, Indiana, and the French Lick Springs Hotel in French Lick, Indiana. Games started between the teams between 1907 and 1908.The Indianapolis ABCs: History of a Premier Team in the Negro Leagues by Paul Debono The team was managed by C. I. Taylor from 1910 to 1913. Their name derived from a bottled water produced at the Hotel. The Hotel bordered on a local salt lick and mineral spring and the minerals from the spring made the water act as an effective and marketable natural laxative. The product was labeled as "Sprudel Water" (from German "Sprudelwasser" meaning "sparkling water"). Their frequent rivals, the F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Lick Township, Indiana
French Lick Township is one of ten Civil township, townships in Orange County, Indiana, Orange County, Indiana, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 4,699 and it contained 2,263 housing units. History French Lick Township was named after French Lick Creek. Geography According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of , of which (or 99.59%) is land and (or 0.41%) is water. Cities, towns, villages * French Lick, Indiana, French Lick * West Baden Springs, Indiana, West Baden Springs Unincorporated towns * Abydel, Indiana, Abydel at * Prospect, Indiana, Prospect at * Roland, Indiana, Roland at (This list is based on USGS data and may include former settlements.) Cemeteries The township contains these three cemeteries: Mount Lebanon, Pythian and Sulphur Creek. Major highways * U.S. Route 150 * Indiana State Road 56 * Indiana State Road 145 Airports and landing strips * French Lick Municipal Airport School districts * Springs Valley Community ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuban Stars (West)
The Cuban Stars were a team of Cuban professional baseball players that competed in the United States Negro leagues from 1907 to 1930. The team was also sometimes known as the Cuban Stars of Havana, Stars of Cuba, Cuban All-Stars, Havana Reds, Almendares Blues or simply as the Cubans. For one season, 1921, the team played home games in Cincinnati, Ohio and was known as the Cincinnati Cubans. Eastern founding The Cuban Stars were organized by Abel Linares and Tinti Molina as a traveling team that played only road games. For its first five years, the team competed primarily in the eastern states, near New York City, Philadelphia, and Baltimore although it made a famous sojourn into Chicago in 1910 and 1911, taking on the Leland Giants and numerous semi-pro teams in the Chicago area. Move westward By 1916, however, the team was competing primarily in the midwestern states and a competing Cuban team was organized in the New York area, which was also named the "Cuban Stars." To ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wabishaw Wiley
Wabishaw Spencer Wiley (February 1, 1887 – November 3, 1944), nicknamed "Doc", was a catcher in Negro league baseball. He played from 1910 to 1924."Wabishaw Wiley" coe.ksu.edu. Retrieved September 16, 2011. Baseball career Wiley was born on February 1, 1877, in . He began his career in 1910 as a catcher for the . He then played for the in ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steel Arm Johnny Taylor
John Boyce Taylor (August 12, 1879 – March 25, 1956) was the second-oldest of four baseball-playing brothers, the others being Charles, Benjamin, and James. Taylor was a pitcher and played in professional pre-league and Negro league baseball from 1903 to 1925. Taylor was given his baseball nickname, "Steel-Arm Johnnie," by a white sportswriter for the Charlotte Observer (a predominantly white paper during the time) wrote about Taylor's great speed, when he pitched for Biddle University in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1898. In the summer of 1898, he played two months for the Greenwood, South Carolina Red Stockings, and finished the season with the Greenville, South Carolina team. In 1899 and 1900, Taylor pitched for his home club in Anderson, South Carolina where he reportedly won 90 percent of his games. During the spring months of 1899 and later in 1905, he coached the Biddle University team. He pitched the 1903 season for the Birmingham Giants where he pitched from thirt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Taylor (Negro Leagues)
Benjamin Harrison Taylor (July 1, 1888 – January 24, 1953) was an American first baseman and manager in baseball's Negro leagues. Taylor played for the Birmingham Giants, Chicago American Giants, Indianapolis ABC's, St. Louis Giants, Bacharach Giants, Washington Potomacs, Harrisburg Giants, and Baltimore Black Sox. His playing career lasted from to . He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2006. Early life Taylor was born in Anderson, South Carolina. He was the youngest of four brothers who all became famous in baseball, including C.I., Candy Jim and Johnny "Steel Arm". Negro league career Taylor initiated his career as a pitcher for the Birmingham Giants in 1908. After playing for the St. Louis Giants (1911–12), New York Lincoln Giants (1912) and Rube Foster's Chicago American Giants (1913–14), Taylor made his name playing for the team one of his brothers, C.I. Taylor, managed and owned, the Indianapolis ABCs. Following a 1915 season in which he hit .308, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luther O'Neal Luther O'Neal (May 15, 1889 – death unknown) was an American Negro league catcher in the 1910s. A native of Lincoln County, Tennessee, O'Neal made his Negro leagues debut in 1910 with the West Baden Sprudels. He played five seasons with the Sprudels, and also played for the Louisville White Sox and Indianapolis ABCs The Indianapolis ABCs were a Negro league baseball team that played both as an independent club and as a charter member of the first Negro National League (NNL). They claimed the western championship of black baseball in 1915 and 1916, and fini ... in 1914. References External links * anSeamheads 1889 births Place of death missing Year of death missing Indianapolis ABCs players Louisville White Sox (1914-1915) players West Baden Sprudels players Bas |
