User:P Aculeius/Sandbox
A page for me to play around with markup, tables, and templates, as well as workspace and storage of things not ready for publication.
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[edit]A "border" template with no maximum width parameter stretches to the margins of the window or column in which it occurs.
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Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that "all men are created equal"
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Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that "all men are created equal"
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Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that "all men are created equal"
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Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that "all men are created equal"
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Base-Ball Ballads
[edit]Saved annotations
[edit]Aside from a couple of old corrections, this was the first text I worked on at Wikisource. I found a lot of words and allusions to persons or events that seemed to require explanation (and I had to look some of them up myself), and I found advice on creating annotations, which I then did as I was transcribing the book. Only as I was nearing the end did I discover that a "clean" version had to be published before anything could be annotated. So I'm going back through the book and stripping out my annotations, and putting them here for safe-keeping. Once I learn how to create a proper annotated version, I should be able to place them where they belong.
General
[edit]In the footer of each page containing an annotation, following the page number:
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Page 10
[edit]After "Jimmy Riley": [1]
After "Bawl": [2]
After "trade-mark": [3]
Page 11
[edit]After "spitter": [4]
After "brick" (possibly could go after "ump"): [5]
Page 12
[edit]After "shine": [6]
After "ring": [7]
Page 13
[edit]After "dub": [8]
After "bum": [9]
Page 14
[edit]After "fouled to catcher": [10]
Page 21
[edit]After "the noodle's on the bum": [11]
After "reserved for life": [12]
After "sole-inspiring": [13]
Page 22
[edit]After "chase that cheese!": [14]
After "Elysian": [15]
After "Bill Bryan": [16]
After "Ted Roosevelt's": [17]
After "Thomas Fortune Ryan": [18]
After "Charley Fairbanks": [19]
After "Harriman": [20]
After "I'd be the diamond daisy": [21]
Page 23
[edit]After "bugs": [22]
After "Teddy": [23]
After "John D.": [24]
After "malefactors of great wealth": [25]
After "playing for my health": [26]
Page 25
[edit]After "a bunch of dubs": [27]
After "doped": [28]
Page 26
[edit]After "Texas": [29]
After "dope": [30]
Page 27
[edit]After "Matty and Wagner and Tenney": [31]
After "bing": [32]
Page 28
[edit]After "cop": [33]
Page 30
[edit]After "Mr. Kipling": [34]
After "Bugs": [35]
Page 32
[edit]After "Hoodoo will camp on your trail": [36]
Page 34
[edit]After "John L. Sullivan": [37]
After "Battling Nelson": [38]
After "Spaulding's Guide": [39]
After "dub": [40]
After "easy tin": [41]
After "throw a drop": [42]
Page 37
[edit]After "The inshoot": [43]
Page 38
[edit]After "the League of Barleycorn": [44]
After "his favorite ash furniture": [45]
Page 41
[edit]After "tiges": [46]
Page 44
[edit]After "At the close of yesterday": [47]
After "Orth has got us on the hog train": [48]
After "And the Naplets": [49]
After "New York had pounded Otto": [50]
Page 45
[edit]After "Clark Griffith": [51]
After "the Ancient Apple Tree": [52]
After "Umpire Connor": [53]
Page 46
[edit]After "Rossman": [54]
After "Jackson": [55]
After "Bemis singled": [56]
After "Stovall": [57]
After "Conroy": [58]
After "Cleveland copped": [59]
Page 47
[edit]After "of all the Dubs": [60]
After "Chop out": [61]
After "that lobster": [62]
Page 48
[edit]After "You second Jesse James!": [63]
Page 49
[edit]After "by Jing!": [64]
Page 51
[edit]After "pass the dope": [65]
After "By crabbing": [66]
After "puts the punk": [67]
After "some funny wheezer": [68]
After "no sane gazabe is jerry": [69]
Page 52
[edit]After "do a Brodie": [70]
Page 53
[edit]After "I care not for the triolet": [71]
After "balmy in the bean": [72]
After "knotty in the knob": [73]
After "the three-base bing": [74]
After "makes the Bugland welkin ring": [75]
After "T'ell" [76]
Page 54
[edit]After "o'er the dope": [77]
After "near-by jug house": [78]
Page 55
[edit]After "oped": [79]
After "Ach, du leiber!": [80]
Page 56
[edit]After "Mike the Bite": [81]
After "you Jesse James": [82]
After "you drunken skate": [83]
After "Mr. Dub": [84]
After "bingle on de bound": [85]
After "dubs some punkerino": [86]
Page 65
[edit]After "doped out": [87]
After "the late O. Goldsmith": [88]
Page 67
[edit]After "the village blacksmith": [89]
After "since Casey biffed": [90]
Page 70
[edit]After "the fields of Dixie": [91]
Page 73
[edit]After "Eugene Field's": [92]
After "he had played with Anson": [93]
Page 74
[edit]After "Fred Pfeffer": [94]
Page 76
[edit]After "the first two inshoots": [95]
Page 79
[edit]After "Fielder Stone": [96]
Page 82
[edit]After "Bloody clever, old chap": [97]
Page 86
[edit]After "geek": [98]
After "Chop out that dope": [99]
Page 87
[edit]After "muchly to the 'punk'": [100]
Page 89
[edit]After "four-flushing": [101]
After "let the old dope": [102]
Page 91
[edit]After "a 'shine'": [103]
After "they called him a dub": [104]
Page 93
[edit]After "springing the gag": [105]
After "where in the bingtime": [106]
After "sewing the flag to the pole": [107]
After "the hapless tail-ender": [108]
After "Hip for the dope": [109]
Page 94
[edit]After "the midnight slide of Paul Revere": [110]
After "Emersonian": [111]
After "the days of Criger": [112]
After "deer-footed Bay": [113]
After "Battle of Lexington": [114]
After "The Yanks": [115]
After "Hist!": [116]
Page 95
[edit]After "Gordian knot": [117]
After "dope recooked": [118]
After "Hold back, you lobster!": [119]
Page 96
[edit]After "the world-famed 'spitter'": [120]
Page 98
[edit]After "read the dope": [121]
Page 99
[edit]After "nineteen massive bingles": [122]
Page 101
[edit]After "a swell chance now to cop": [123]
After "dat lobster": [124]
Page 102
[edit]After "chickens wid de pip": [125]
Page 103
[edit]After "the dope": [126]
After "no bush league dub": [127]
After "or I'm a skate": [128]
After "she shoots those lamps": [129]
After "Eddie Ruelbach's": [130]
After "Out-curves and inshoots": [131]
After "Wild Bill": [132]
Page 104
[edit]After "I'm the lemon leaguer": [133]
After "Slide, you lobster": [134]
After "on the soapy chute": [135]
After "There ain't no bleacher bugs": [136]
Page 105
[edit]After "Dun's or Bradstreet's": [137]
After "your salary whip": [138]
Page 106
[edit]After "in true O'Loughlin": [139]
Page 111
[edit]After "a crusty Uncle Joe": [140]
Page 112
[edit]After "Richardson's": [141]
After "out of the fight": [142]
After "Mighty Buck Ewing": [143]
After "Kelly and Gore": [144]
After "Tiernan and Tucker": [145]
After "Jack Ward and Pfeffer": [146]
After "Even Van Haltren": [147]
After "'Kind Bid' McPhee": [148]
Page 113
[edit]After "Herman Long's": [149]
After "Big Del": [150]
After "Bob Lowe and Zimmer": [151]
After "Wehring and Nops": [152]
After "Dr. McJames": [153]
After "the mighty Dalrymple": [154]
After "Cuppy the Sly": [155]
Page 114
[edit]After "'Hail! the Conquering Hero Comes'": [156]
Page 116
[edit]After "Teddy": [157]
After "all your strenuosity": [158]
After "your big stick": [159]
After "'nature-faking' fuss": [160]
After "charge up San Juan Hill": [161]
After "a stronger will": [162]
Page 117
[edit]After "swinging for your under jaw": [163]
After "robber, liar, thief, and dub!": [164]
After "Ananias Club": [165]
After "peace with old Japan": [166]
After "O'Conner or McGann": [167]
Page 118
[edit]After "holding California back": [168]
After "calling Devlin": [169]
Page 119
[edit]After "Ben King's 'Ghost'": [170]
After "for you're square": [171]
After "without one bum": [172]
After "pass me out that dope": [173]
Page 120
[edit]After "When 'Wifey' Reads Dope": [174]
After "threw her lamps": [175]
Page 121
[edit]After "Walloped all the wadding from him": [176]
After "bumped upon the bean": [177]
Page 122
[edit]After "a wicked cheroot": [178]
After "your dope is correck": [179]
After "full as a goat": [180]
After "a terrible paist": [181]
Page 123
[edit]After "the speed of H. Bay": [182]
Page 124
[edit]After "I've studied up the dope": [183]
After "Jackson is a bird": [184]
Page 125
[edit]After "and a cane": [185]
Page 126
[edit]After "Can that big dub": [186]
After "something of a shine": [187]
After "I've seen some awful yellow": [188]
Page 127
[edit]After "He's a holy show": [189]
After "hit the chutes": [190]
Page 128
[edit]After "Game Called": [191]
Notes
[edit]- ↑ American poet James Whitcomb Riley, author of rural and dialectical poems such as "When the Frost is on the Punkin", here quoted as "pumpkin". (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Bingle: a base hit single. The bug is on the bawl: the fan is shouting or crying out loudly. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ The trademark, or label, on the barrel of a bat. Traditionally bat-makers place the trademark on the bat's weakest side, so batters are taught to hold the trademark facing up to reduce the probability of cracking or breaking the bat. Here, "trademark" seems to refer to the barrel itself. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ The spitball, a common pitch, until prohibited beginning in 1921. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Finely-ground brick is sometimes used to harden the dirt surface of heavily-used areas of the field, particularly around home plate. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Shine: a fool, show-off, amateur. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Welkin: the heavens. "Making the welkin ring" is to make a loud noise; celebrate. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Dub: a clumsy, awkward, or unskilled person. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Put on the bum: to break, render useless. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Fouled to catcher: a foul tip was caught for a third strike. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ The noodle's on the bum: the noodle (an ineffective whip) is broken; out of order. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Until 1975, the reserve clause in player contracts prevented ballplayers from negotiating with other teams unless they were unconditionally released, even after their contracts had expired. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Sole-inspiring: because the father is kicking the son of swat out of the house, as depicted in the illustration. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Cheese: the fastball. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ In Greek mythology, the Elysian Fields were the pleasant setting of the afterlife granted to heroes. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ William Jennings Bryan, a prominent orator and politician. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Theodore Roosevelt, twenty-sixth president of the United States. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Thomas Fortune Ryan, a financier and one of the wealthiest men in America. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Charles W. Fairbanks, Vice President during Theodore Roosevelt's administration. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ E. H. Harriman, financier and railroad magnate. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Daisy: something excellent, superb. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Bugs: fans. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Roosevelt. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ John D. Rockefeller, oil magnate, and one of the richest men in American history. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ In responding to the Panic of 1907, Roosevelt railed against wealthy industrialists, calling them "malefactors of great wealth". (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ For my health: doing something for little or no pay. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Dubs: clumsy, awkward, or unskilled persons. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Doped: explained; dispensed knowledge (dope) of. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ From 1908 to 1918, the New York Giants held spring training at Marlin, Texas. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Dope: information, intelligence. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Matty, Wagner, and Tenny [sic]: Christy Mathewson (Giants), Honus Wagner (Pirates), and Fred Tenney (Giants). (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Bing: a base-hit. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Cop: to grab, steal. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Rudyard Kipling. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Bugs: fans. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Hoodoo: voodoo. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ John L. Sullivan, champion heavyweight boxer of the 1880s and 1890s. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Battling Nelson, champion lightweight boxer of the 1900s and 1910s. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Spalding's Baseball Guide, published from 1877 to 1941. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Dub: a clumsy, unskilled, or amateurish person. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Tin: money. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Drop: or drop ball, a sinking fastball or curveball that breaks sharply downward. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Inshoot: a pitch that breaks sharply inward toward the batter. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ League of Barleycorn: beer. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ His favorite ash furniture: his bat. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Tiges: not a typo, but shortened to one syllable for meter. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ This poem describes the game between Cleveland and New York on June 14, 1906. See The New York Times, June 15, 1906, p. 7. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Al Orth, pitcher for the New York Highlanders (now the Yankees) from 1904 to 1909. Hog train: cheap transportation, commonly associated with hobos or tramps. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Cleveland, known as the "Napoleons" or "Naps" after team captain Nap Lajoie from 1903 to 1914. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Otto Hess, pitcher for Cleveland from 1902 to 1908. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Clark Griffith, pitcher and manager of the Highlanders from 1903 to 1908. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ "Twenty-three, skidoo" was a popular phrase indicating that someone was leaving in a hurry. Larry: a nickname of Nap Lajoie. "In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree" was a sentimental song published in 1905. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Tom Connor, an American League umpire in 1905 and 1906. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Claude Rossman, Cleveland's first baseman in 1906. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Jim Jackson, an outfielder for the Naps in 1905 and 1906. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Bill Bradley, third baseman for Cleveland from 1901 to 1910; Rossman was forced out at third base, leaving Jackson and Bradley on base; Lajoie had already scored on Jackson's single. Harry Bemis, Naps catcher from 1902 to 1910. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ George Stovall, first baseman and infielder for Cleveland from 1904 to 1911. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Wid Conroy, infielder for the Highlanders from 1903 to 1908. Conroy, playing shortstop, put out Bemis at second base, but threw low to first baseman Hal Chase while attempting a double play on Stovall, allowing Jackson and Bradley to score, and was charged with an error. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Copped: stole. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Dubs: unskilled, amateurish players. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Chop out: cut out, quit, stop. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Lobster: a slow, awkward, or clumsy player. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Jesse James: a notorious robber, and head of the "James Gang", active from 1866 until he was gunned down in 1882. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ By Jing!: a clipped form of "by Jingo", a minced oath common from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Dope: knowledge, intelligence. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Crab: to spoil, ruin; or to irritate. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Punk: bad, poor, weak, sickly. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Wheezer: a joke, jest. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Gazabe (variously spelled): a dandy, fop; someone foolish, awkward, stupid. Is jerry: understands, comprehends. See Eric Partridge, A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, 7th ed., Macmillan, New York (1961, 1967, 1970), vol. I (dictionary), s. v. gazob, jerry; vol. II (supplement), s.v. gazebo, jerry; Jonathon Green, Cassell's Dictionary of Slang, 2nd ed., Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London (2005), s.v. gazabo. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Do a Brodie: a reference to Steve Brodie, a champion diver who ostensibly survived a jump from the Brooklyn Bridge in 1886; hence, to take a reckless or suicidal chance, especially a leap. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Triolet: a poetic stanza, usually of eight lines, as here, but with the rhyme scheme ABaAabAB, in which the fourth and seventh lines repeat the first, and the last line repeats the second. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Balmy: crazy, mad; same as "barmy" in British English. Bean: the head (hence "to bean", to hit someone in the head with the ball, and "beanball", a pitch that strikes the batter in the head). (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Knotty: gnarled, confused. Knob: the head. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Bing: a base hit. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Bugland: from "bug", a fan. Welkin: the heavens.
- ↑ T'ell: probably a typographical error. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Dope: knowledge. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Bug house: an insane asylum; as an adjective, "crazy". Jug house: a bar or tavern. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Oped: opened (archaic or poetic). (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Ach, du Lieber ("Leiber" is a typo): a mild German expression of dismay, meaning approximately "oh, dear!" (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Mike the Bite: an uncouth Irishman, a stock character of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Jesse James: a notorious outlaw and robber. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Skate: a drunkard. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Lookout Mountain: a ridge in northeastern Georgia. Dub: a clumsy, unskilled, or amateurish player. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Pipe: see. Bingle: a base-hit single. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Punkerino: diminutive of "punk"; in this case describing clumsy, amateurish persons; an intensifier of "dubs". (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Doped out: explained, described. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Oliver Goldsmith, an eighteenth century novelist and playwright, and author of the poem The Deserted Village (1770). (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ An allusion to The Village Blacksmith, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1840). The Village Blacksmith alternates lines of iambic tetrameter and trimeter; Mudville's Fate employs iambic heptameter, with each line equal in length to two lines of The Village Blacksmith. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Biffed: struck, hit. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ The fields of Dixie: spring training. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Eugene Field, poet and essayist of the late nineteenth century. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ "Cap" Anson, player and manager of the Chicago White Stockings (now the Cubs) between 1876 and 1897, and one of the first stars of the National League. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Ned Williamson, third baseman and later shortstop for the White Stockings from 1879 to 1889, set National League records for doubles (49) and home runs (27) in 1883, aided by Lakeshore Park's unusually short fences; 27 would remain the major league single-season home run record until Babe Ruth hit 29 in 1919. "King" Kelly, star catcher, outfielder, and baseball innovator, played for the White Stockings from 1880 to 1886. Later in his career, he performed in vaudeville, frequently reciting "Casey at the Bat"; he was rumored to have been the inspiration for the character of Casey, who in "The Man Who Played with Anson" claims to have been Kelly's teammate. Fred Pfeffer, second baseman for the White Stockings from 1883 to 1889, a defensive star and one of the last players who refused to use a glove in the field. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Inshoot: a pitch that breaks sharply toward the batter. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ George Stone, left fielder for the St. Louis Browns from 1905 to 1910. He led the American League in hits in 1905 and 1906, and was second to Ty Cobb in 1907. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Bloody: although Rice regards this as quite mild, in British English this was considered a fairly strong vulgarity until the late twentieth century. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Geek: a rube, simpleton. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Dope: talk. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Punk: something substandard, inferior, useless. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Four-flushing: bluffing, going through the motions. From four flush, a poker hand of no value in most games, except for bluffing. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Dope: knowledge. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Shine: an inexperienced, amateurish player. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Dub: a clumsy, unskilled, or amateurish player. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Springing the gag: becoming vocal after a period of silence (the end of the previous season). (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Bingtime: from "bing", a base hit. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Sewing the flag to the pole: optimistically predicting a pennant. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Tail-ender: a weak hitter, consigned to the end of the batting order. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Hip: cheer, as in "hip! hip! hurrah!". Dope: information, intelligence; in this case, sports reporting in anticipation of spring training. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ This is an allusion to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1861 poem, "Paul Revere's Ride", and the first stanza of "The Slide of Paul Revere" closely follows Longfellow's meter and rhyme. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Ralph Waldo Emerson, nineteenth century American essayist, poet, and philosopher, was a native of Boston, a city also famed for its baked beans—so much so that from the 1880s to the early 1900s the Boston National League team was popularly called the "Beaneaters". (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Lou Criger, catcher for the Boston Americans (now the Red Sox) from 1901 to 1908; he was Cy Young's usual battery mate. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Harry Bay, outfielder for the Cleveland Naps from 1902 to 1908. Nicknamed "Deerfoot" for his speed, he led the American League in stolen bases in 1903 and 1904. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ The Battle of Lexington, a skirmish fought on April 19, 1775 between a force of British regulars stationed in Boston and a much smaller group of Massachusetts Bay militiamen, was the first engagement of the American Revolution. Paul Revere was one of several riders who the previous night had warned the area militias of the approach of the British, which was the subject of Longfellow's poem. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Not the New York Yankees, at the time generally known as the "Highlanders", but the Boston Americans, as opposed to the British team: "Yankee" is a nickname for an American, especially a native of New England or New York. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Hist: hush, be quiet, listen, shhh! (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ In Greek legend, the Gordian Knot was an elaborate knot, which according to prophesy would be unraveled by one destined to rule Asia. So complex was the knot, that none who attempted to untie it succeeded. After arriving at Gordium in 333 BC, Alexander the Great struggled to loosen it. Reasoning that it was unimportant how the knot was unraveled, he cut through it with his sword. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Dope Recooked: warmed-over intelligence; a well-worn story. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Lobster: a slow, awkward player. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Spitter: a spitball pitcher. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Dope: reports, information, intelligence. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Bingle: a base-hit single. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Cop: to grab, take, steal (a win). (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Lobster: a slow, awkward player.
- ↑ Pip: a respiratory infection of birds. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Dope: knowledge, intelligence. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Dub: an unskilled, amateurish player. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Skate: an inferior player. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Lamps: eyes. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Ed Reulbach, pitcher for the Chicago Cubs from 1905 to 1913. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Out-curves and in-shoots: pitches that break away from and toward the batter, respectively. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ "Wild Bill" Donovan, pitcher for the Detroit Tigers from 1903 to 1912. Hughie Jennings was the Tigers' manager from 1907 to 1920. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Lemon leaguer: a player from a second-rate league; hence, an inferior player. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Lobster: a slow, awkward player. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ The soapy chute: the garbage chute; thus, on the quick way out. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Bugs: fans. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Dun & Bradstreet: an agency that publishes detailed reports on businesses and credit. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Salary whip: a player's ability to command a higher salary due to skill or achievement. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ "Silk" O'Loughlin, an umpire known for his imperious manner, dramatic gestures, and loud voice. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Nelson W. Aldrich, U.S. Senator from Rhode Island, was one of the leaders of the Republican Party. Joseph Gurney Cannon, Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1903 to 1911. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Hardy Richardson, a star infielder and outfielder with several teams from 1879 to 1892. He and Dan Brouthers, mentioned below, were half of the "Big Four" of the Buffalo Bisons and Detroit Wolverines from 1881 to 1888. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Amos Rusie, "the Hoosier Thunderbolt", retired from pitching in 1901. Arlie Latham, third baseman for several teams from 1880 to 1899, one of the best base-stealers in history. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Buck Ewing, a powerful batsman and one of the finest defensive catchers of the nineteenth century. He died in 1906, and so was literally "buried and passed" by the time this poem was written, in 1909. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ John Clarkson, one of the best pitchers of the nineteenth century. King Kelly, star outfielder and catcher for several teams from 1878 to 1893, and possibly the inspiration for "Mighty Casey" in the poem Casey at the Bat. George "Piano Legs" Gore, a star hitter and baserunner from 1879 to 1892, once stole seven bases in a single game. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Mike Tiernan, a power-hitting outfielder for the New York Giants from 1887 to 1899, still holds the franchise records for triples and stolen bases. Tommy Tucker, a slick-fielding, switch-hitting first baseman for several teams from 1887 to 1899. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Probably John Montgomery Ward, better known as "Monte", a star pitcher, later infielder, for several teams from 1878 to 1894. Fred Pfeffer, second baseman for several teams from 1882 to 1897, was one of the last great barehanded fielders. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ George Van Haltren, star outfielder, hitter, and baserunner from 1887 to 1903. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Jouett Meekin, a popular pitcher for the New York Giants of the 1890s. Bill Hoffer, pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles and Pittsburgh Pirates during the 1890s. Bid McPhee, a fine defensive second baseman for the Cincinnati Reds from 1882 to 1899, and the last player to field without a glove at second base. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Herman Long, shortstop for the Boston Beaneaters (now the Braves) from 1890 to 1902, was regarded as one of the finest players of his era, and part of one of the best infields of all time, including first baseman Fred Tenney, second baseman Bobby Lowe (mentioned below), and Jimmy Collins at third base. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ "Big Ed" Delahanty was one of the best hitters of the 1890s and early 1900s, batting over .400 three times for the Philadelphia Phillies. He drowned in the Niagara River during the middle of the 1903 season. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Bobby Lowe, second baseman for the Boston Beaneaters of the 1890s, shared the infield with Herman Long, mentioned above, as well as Fred Tenney and Jimmy Collins. Chief Zimmer, one of the best defensive catchers of the late nineteenth century, played for the Cleveland Spiders from 1887 to 1899. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Ted Breitenstein, pitcher for the original St. Louis Browns (now the Cardinals) and Cincinnati Reds from 1891 to 1901, threw two no-hitters, one in his first major league start. Bill Phillips, a power hitter and fine defensive first baseman from 1879 to 1888, mainly with the Cleveland Blues and Brooklyn Grays. Gus Weyhring, a pitcher known for his cannonball arm, as well as his wildness. He won 32 games for the Phillies in 1892, and still holds the record for most hit batsmen in a career. Jerry Nops, a 20-game winner for the Baltimore Orioles in 1896. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Frank "Noodles" Hahn, an exceptional left-handed pitcher for unexceptional Cincinnati Reds teams from 1899 to 1905, threw two no-hitters and led the National League in strikeouts three times. Billy Rhines, pitcher from 1890 to 1899, mostly for the Reds, led the league in earned run average in 1890 and 1896. Joe Corbett, winner of 24 games for the Orioles in 1897. Doc McJames, pitcher from 1895 to 1901, led the National League in strikeouts for the Washington Senators in 1897, and won 27 games for the Baltimore Orioles in 1898. A medical doctor by training, in 1901 he was thrown from a horse-drawn carriage and killed while making a house call, at the age of twenty-seven, less than two months after his last appearance on the mound. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Abner Dalrymple, power-hitting left fielder for the Chicago White Stockings (now the Cubs) from 1879 to 1886. He won the National League batting title during his rookie season with the Milwaukee Grays in 1878. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Either Doggie Miller, catcher and utility player from 1884 to 1896, or Dusty Miller, outfielder between 1890 and 1899. Jerry Denny, power-hitting third baseman for several teams between 1881 and 1894, was the last position player to go his entire career without using a glove. George Cuppy, a four-time 20-game winner with the Cleveland Spiders in the 1890s, was a teammate of Cy Young for nine out of his ten years in the majors. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Variously "See" or "Hail, the Conquering (or "Conqu'ring") Hero Comes", from Handel's oratorio, Judas Maccabaeus, a popular tune for brass bands to play in celebration of opening day. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Teddy: Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States from 1901 to 1909. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Roosevelt had been a sickly child, but had gained strength through vigorous physical activity, a routine he followed for the rest of his life, and extolled as "The Strenuous Life" in an 1899 speech. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ One of Roosevelt's favourite aphorisms, describing the means to achieve success, began "speak softly and carry a big stick". Historians frequently use it to characterize Roosevelt's approach to foreign policy. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ The "nature fakers" were writers of animal stories who were criticized for anthropomorphizing their subjects. Roosevelt became involved when he read details that he felt had been invented for dramatic purposes, instead of being based on their observations, or on plausible interpretations. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ During the Spanish–American War, then-Colonel Roosevelt had led the Rough Riders, a volunteer cavalry regiment, in an assault on Kettle Hill as part of the Battle of San Juan Hill. The attack became widely known in the United States as the "Charge up San Juan Hill". (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ As president, Roosevelt became persuaded that great concentrations of wealth, and the use of trusts to hide and protect wealth, had become obstacles to economic and social progress. Roosevelt used the powers of the presidency to break up trusts and encourage competition. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Kid Elberfeld, a shortstop from 1898 to 1911, was notorious for his confrontations with umpires. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Dub: a clumsy, unskilled, or amateurish person. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Ananias Club: a euphemism used by the press to describe those whom Roosevelt accused of dishonesty. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ In 1905, President Roosevelt helped negotiate the treaty that ended the Russo–Japanese War, for which he received the Nobel Peace Prize. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Jack O'Connor, catcher, outfielder, and utility infielder from 1887 to 1910. Dan McGann, first and second baseman from 1896 to 1908, known for his fiery temperament. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Following the Pacific Coast race riots of 1907, Roosevelt attempted to defuse anti-Japanese sentiment in California by negotiating the Gentlemen's Agreement. This agreement ended certain discriminatory practices in California, in exchange for Japan blocking the immigration of unskilled laborers to the United States. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Art Devlin, a speedy third baseman for the New York Giants from 1904 to 1911, was known for his short temper. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Benjamin Franklin King Jr., American poet and humorist. His poem, "If I Should Die", on which "The Shock" is modeled, opened Ben King's Verse, a posthumous collection of his poems published in 1894. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Square: honest, even. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Bum: bad, lame. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Dope: knowledge, report. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Dope: information, intelligence, reports. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Lamps: eyes. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Walloped all the wadding from him: beat the stuffing out of him. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Bean: the head. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Cheroot: an untapered cigar with pre-cut ends. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Jigger: to move with a jerking motion. Dope: information, intelligence. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Full as a goat: drunk, intoxicated; hence, "loaded". (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Paist: paste; a beating, a hard hit. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Harry Bay, nicknamed "Deerfoot", a speedy outfielder for the Cincinnati Reds and Cleveland Naps from 1901 to 1908, led the American League in stolen bases in 1903 and 1904. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Dope: intelligence, reports. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Bird: a fine fellow. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Loving cup: a two-handled cup given as a trophy. Cane: until World War II, canes were popular fashion accessories, here intended as lesser trophies. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Can: dispose of, fire. Dub: a clumsy, unskilled, or amateurish player. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Shine: someone or something foolish, insubstantial; a joke. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Yellow: poor quality, second-rate. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Holy show: a embarrassing or scandalous performance. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Hit the chutes: to be thrown down the garbage chute; hence, to be spoiled, ruined. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ This is probably Grantland Rice's most famous poem, and the final stanza is frequently paraphrased as "it's not whether you win or lose, but how you play the game". This poem closes the collection, just as the similar "Play Ball" opens it. In 1948, following the death of Babe Ruth, whose career had not yet begun when Base-Ball Ballads was published, Rice penned a new version of "Game Called" as an elegy for Ruth. (Wikisource contributor note)