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Title
Alabama's Championship Baseball Team, 1892
Subject
University of Alabama
Baseball
Athletes
Description
1892 University of Alabama Championship Baseball Team: Top row: William Brockman Bankhead, Shelby Sidney Fletcher (manager), Jack Abbott; Middle row: George Herbert Kyser, James Pinkney Powers, Darby H. Brown; bottom row: Hugh Morrow, Samuel Friedman, Daniel Holt Smith (captain), Burr Ferguson
Ledger article tells how team members went on to successful careers.
Ledger article tells how team members went on to successful careers.
Source
Tuscaloosa News Archive
Publisher
The Ledger
Date
July 19, 1919
Contributor
Betty Slowe (Description)
Type
Newspaper
Identifier
230
Coverage
Tuscaloosa (AL)
Text
Alabama's Championship Team - Not of 1919, though - these tossers won their laurels back in 1892. They are winners today in the business and professional world.
Behold the champions! Champions back in the 'nineties,' but champions nevertheless. The above photograph shows the University of Alabama championship team of 1892. Four hundred years after America was discovered these champions were giving Sewanee, Vanderbilt and Lebanon, Tenn., the razz, basebally speaking.
The men who composed this team are today among the foremost in the south in the business and professional world. In 1892 they were the foremost in the south in baseball. The University of Alabama team during the years of 1890 to '94 did not lose a series. The personnel of the team was changed partially during that period, however.
Fletcher in Legislature
In the picture above sitting at the top in civilian clothes is Shelby Fletcher, manager. Today he is sitting at the top in civilian clothesin the state capitol, helping make the laws of Alabama. He is the representative to the legislature from Huntsville.
At his left is William B. Bankhead who played right field. He was one of the best fielders of his day. Today he is in Washington representing the Tenth congressional district in the house of representatives. He is from Jasper.
On Fletcher's right is Jack Abbott, center-fielder, now an electrical engineer at Okalona, Miss.
Sitting directly in front of Fletcher on the step lower is John P. Powers, who was shortstop. He is a grogressive farmer of Tuscaloosa now.
Pitcher Four Years
On the extreme left is Hugh Morrow; he was the pitcher. He hurled practically every game during the season of 1892 as well as the seasons of 1890, '91, '93 and '94. Today he is a member of the prominent local law firm of Tillman, Bradley and Morrow and is one of the best known attorneys in the south.
Next in line from Morrow to the right is Herbert Kyser, third base. he played that important position well. He is a prominent druggist at Selma now.
Third from the left on the second step is Sam Friedman, second-baseman. He is now a prominent capitalist of Tuscaloosa.
On the same step with him farther down the line with the hat in his hand is D. H. Smith, first-baseman and captain. He was the leading hitter and was a good first-baseman. He is representing a manufacturing firm in North Carolina.
The next man to him , one step above him, second from the right, is D. H. Brown, left-fielder. He later played third base and was one of the best that ever played on the university team. He had a good throwing arm. He is now a local coal operator.
On the extreme right is Burr Ferguson, catcher. He stopped them all and was a good hitter. He recently returned from France with the rank of lieutenant colonel in the medical corps.
Behold the champions! Champions back in the 'nineties,' but champions nevertheless. The above photograph shows the University of Alabama championship team of 1892. Four hundred years after America was discovered these champions were giving Sewanee, Vanderbilt and Lebanon, Tenn., the razz, basebally speaking.
The men who composed this team are today among the foremost in the south in the business and professional world. In 1892 they were the foremost in the south in baseball. The University of Alabama team during the years of 1890 to '94 did not lose a series. The personnel of the team was changed partially during that period, however.
Fletcher in Legislature
In the picture above sitting at the top in civilian clothes is Shelby Fletcher, manager. Today he is sitting at the top in civilian clothesin the state capitol, helping make the laws of Alabama. He is the representative to the legislature from Huntsville.
At his left is William B. Bankhead who played right field. He was one of the best fielders of his day. Today he is in Washington representing the Tenth congressional district in the house of representatives. He is from Jasper.
On Fletcher's right is Jack Abbott, center-fielder, now an electrical engineer at Okalona, Miss.
Sitting directly in front of Fletcher on the step lower is John P. Powers, who was shortstop. He is a grogressive farmer of Tuscaloosa now.
Pitcher Four Years
On the extreme left is Hugh Morrow; he was the pitcher. He hurled practically every game during the season of 1892 as well as the seasons of 1890, '91, '93 and '94. Today he is a member of the prominent local law firm of Tillman, Bradley and Morrow and is one of the best known attorneys in the south.
Next in line from Morrow to the right is Herbert Kyser, third base. he played that important position well. He is a prominent druggist at Selma now.
Third from the left on the second step is Sam Friedman, second-baseman. He is now a prominent capitalist of Tuscaloosa.
On the same step with him farther down the line with the hat in his hand is D. H. Smith, first-baseman and captain. He was the leading hitter and was a good first-baseman. He is representing a manufacturing firm in North Carolina.
The next man to him , one step above him, second from the right, is D. H. Brown, left-fielder. He later played third base and was one of the best that ever played on the university team. He had a good throwing arm. He is now a local coal operator.
On the extreme right is Burr Ferguson, catcher. He stopped them all and was a good hitter. He recently returned from France with the rank of lieutenant colonel in the medical corps.
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