The Schulte Poems: March 9, 1910
The Schulte Poems: March 9, 1910 By JohnW53 on Mar 9, 2021, 6:46am CST 2 During the 1910 season, the Chicago Tribune regularly published funny, sometimes hilarious, poems that it said were written by Frank Schulte, the Cubs' colorful, hard-hitting, lefty-swinging right fielder. The poems actually were written by Ring Lardner, destined to become one of the great humorists of the early 20th Century, who was assigned by the paper to cover the Cubs that season. This entry appeared 111 years ago today, as Schulte, sidelined with a split finger, watched the young outfielders who dreamed...
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