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Cubs' first game with 2 umpires, 1888 By JohnW53 on Apr 19, 2021, 6:43am CDT + When 5,000 spectators gathered at Chicago's West Side Park on Tuesday, July 17, 1888, they saw something they never had seen before: 2 umpires on the field at the same time. The 4-umpire "crew" that we take for granted today did not become standard for all regular-season games until 1953. Even a second umpire was not mandated until 1911, although one often was assigned for important game between contending teams. In the 1870s and 1880s, the lone umpire stood behind the pitcher's box, which was on flat g...

What's in a (team) name?, Part 5 ('Killers'?) By JohnW53 on Jan 7, 2021, 3:03am CST + .......... Many baseball books and websites show that the Cubs played under 4 names. Baseball-reference.com, for example, lists: 1876-1889: White Stockings 1903-2020: Cubs But as shown in previous posts in this series, newspapers referred to the team by multiple other names. Nor was there an immediate shift from one name to another. In 1902, as described yesterday, the Chicago Tribune printed the last name of the team's new manager, "Selee," and "Orphans" on the same page just 3 times. "Selee" an...

Keep an eye out for more entries throughout the offseason. In 2014, the Giants unveiled the Gotham Clubhouse, a speakeasy-style event space reserved for Gotham Club members at Oracle Park. Ensconced behind the out-of-town scoreboard, the Gotham Clubhouse pays homage to the franchise’s rich history in New York. Founded by John B. Day and Jim Mutrie in 1883, the Giants were originally dubbed the New York Gothams. So, how did they come to be known as the Giants? An apocryphal story links the origin of their current nickname to Mutrie, who served as the club’s first manager. Mutrie was believ...