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Oscar in the Baseball Research Journal

16 Sunday Apr 2017

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My piece on Oscar’s rookie season with the Indianapolis ABCs, including a detailed account of the brawl he helped spark in an October 1915 contest versus the Donie Bush All-Stars, is now out in the Baseball Research Journal‘s print edition.

It’s not online yet, but I suspect it will be before long.

If you just can’t wait, looks like you can buy the issue here.

And if you also just can’t wait for the bio to be published…well, the manuscript is coming along. The University of Nebraska Press will be the publisher.

Clipping of the Week

21 Saturday May 2016

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Going to try to make this a regular feature.

In this clipping (click to enlarge), from January 1, 1916, the Indianapolis Freeman reprints a short piece from the Manila Times informing Philippines readers about Charleston’s whereabouts. Oscar had left the islands in March 1915, when he was 18 years old. Apparently he was not too young to have left quite an impression on the local baseball fans.

Also, no one is naming their kids Nimrod anymore. Pity.

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