Tag Archives: New York Mutuals
John B. Day
John B. Day (Baseball. Born, Colchester, MA, Sept. 23, 1847; died, Cliffside Park, NJ, Jan. 25, 1925.) After the New York Mutuals were expelled from the infant National League for failing to complete the 1876 N.L. schedule, it fell to John B. Day to revive major league pro baseball in the nation’s largest city. Day […]
Candy Cummings
Candy Cummings (Baseball. Born, Ware, MA, Oct. 18, 1848; died, Toledo, OH, May 16, 1924.) It is probable, though not absolutely certain, that William Arthur Cummings invented the curveball. Cummings supposedly studied the flight of seashells tossed at the shore and perfected the wrist motion necessary to make a baseball curve. In the days before […]
Bill Cammeyer
Bill Cammeyer (Baseball. Born, New York, NY, Mar. 20, 1821; died, New York, NY, Sept. 4, 1898.) Among the seminal inventions in the history of sports is the enclosed ballpark, and William Henry Cammeyer is its creator. On May 15, 1862, Cammeyer opened his Union Grounds, a converted skating rink at what was then Lee […]
