The Original Curse (37 page)

6
.
Chicago Tribune
, August 6, 1918.

7
.
Chicago Daily News
, August 23, 1918.

8
.
Chicago Tribune
, August 3, 1918.

9
.
Boston Globe
, August 4, 1918.

10
.
Boston Globe
, August 11, 1918.

11
.
Chicago Tribune
, August 5, 1918.

12
.
Chicago Tribune
, April 3, 1918.

13
.
Chicago Tribune
, May 10, 1918.

14
.
Chicago Tribune
, April 14, 1918.

15
.
Chicago Tribune
, January 20, 1918.

16
.
Chicago Daily News
, August 10, 1918.

17
.
Chicago Tribune
, August 18, 1918.

18
.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
, January 26, 1933.

19
.
Chicago Tribune
, August 5, 1923.

20
.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
, August 15, 1940.

1
. In November 1920, Carl Mays opened up to
Baseball Magazine
about his history of unpopularity, which followed him wherever he went in the game. Notes 1–3 are taken almost verbatim from quotes of Mays’s in the
Baseball Magazine
interview. This exact quote went: “There is such a thing as popularity. We all know people who are popular without being able to explain why they should be. We also know people who are not popular, and yet they may be even more deserving of respect. Popularity does not necessarily rest on merit. Nor is unpopularity necessarily deserved.”

2
.
Baseball Magazine
, November 1920.

3
.
Baseball Magazine
, November 1920.

4
.
Boston Globe
, August 11, 1918.

5
. Nowlin,
When Boston Still Had the Babe
, p. 81. Mays is described as having “the disposition of a man with a permanent toothache.”

6
.
Baseball Magazine
, November 1920.

7
.
Baseball Magazine
, June 1918.

8
.
The Sporting News
, August 22, 1918.

9
.
Baseball Magazine
, October 1918.

10
.
Chicago Daily News
, August 29, 1918.

11
.
The Sporting News
, August 22, 1918.

12
.
Chicago American
, August 16, 1918.

13
. From the diary of 89th Division soldier Andrew Oleson, at olesons.com/diary.htm.

14
.
The Sporting News
, September 12, 1918.

15
.
Boston Globe
, August 30, 1918.

16
.
Boston Herald
, August 31, 1918.

17
.
Chicago Tribune
, August 31, 1918.

18
.
Chicago Tribune
, September 2, 1918.

19
.
The Sporting News
, August 22, 1918.

20
.
Chicago American
, August 1, 1918.

21
.
Chicago American
, July 19, 1918.

22
. Farwell,
Over There
, p. 185.

23
.
New York Times
, August 14, 1918.

24
.
Baseball Magazine
, November 1920.

1
. Description of the scene at the Federal Building is taken from September 5, 1918, editions of the
Chicago Tribune, Chicago Herald Examiner
, and
Chicago Daily News
.

2
.
Chicago Tribune
, September 5, 1918.

3
.
Boston Globe
, September 5, 1918.

4
.
Chicago Daily Journal
, September 5, 1918.

5
.
Boston American
, September 5, 1918.

6
.
Chicago Daily Journal
, September 5, 1918.

7
.
Chicago American
, August 21, 1918.

8
.
Boston Post
, September 1, 1918.

9
.
Chicago Tribune
, August 18, 1918.

10
.
The Sporting News
, August 29, 1918.

11
.
Boston Herald
, September 5, 1918.

12
.
Chicago Herald Examiner
, September 5, 1918.

13
.
Boston Post
, September 5, 1918.

14
.
Baseball Magazine
, October 1918.

15
.
Boston Herald
, September 5, 1918.

16
.
Boston Herald
, September 4, 1918.

17
. Fowler,
Skyline
, p. 109.

18
.
Boston American
, September 6, 1918.

19
.
Boston American
, September 6, 1918.

20
.
Chicago Tribune
, September 6, 1918.

21
.
Boston Post
, September 7, 1918.

22
.
Chicago Tribune
, September 6, 1918.

23
.
New York Times
, September 6, 1918.

1
.
Chicago Tribune
, September 8, 1918.

2
.
Chicago Tribune
, September 7, 1918.

3
.
Chicago American
, September 4, 1918.

4
.
Chicago Herald Examiner
, September 7, 1918.

5
.
The Sporting News
, September 12, 1918.

6
.
The Sporting News
, September 12, 1918.

7
.
Chicago Tribune
, September 4, 1918.

8
.
Boston American
, September 7, 1918.

9
.
Boston American
, September 7, 1918.

10
.
Boston American
, September 8, 1918.

11
.
New York Times
, September 8, 1918.

12
.
Chicago Herald Examiner
, September 9, 1918.

13
.
Chicago Herald Examiner
, September 8, 1918.

14
.
The Sporting News
, September 12, 1918.

15
.
Sports Collectors Digest
, November 3, 2000.

16
.
Chicago Tribune
, July 11, 1921.

17
.
Chicago Tribune
, May 30, 1966.

18
.
Chicago Tribune
, December 28, 1921.

1
.
Boston Post
, September 9, 1918.

2
.
Boston Post
, September 11, 1918.

3
.
The Sporting News
, February 21, 1918.

4
.
Chicago Tribune
, September 8, 1918.

5
.
Boston Globe
, September 10, 1918.

6
.
Boston Globe
, September 10, 1918.

7
.
Chicago Herald Examiner
, September 10, 1918.

8
.
New York Times
, September 10, 1918.

9
.
Boston Globe
, September 10, 1918.

10
.
Boston Post
, September 10, 1918.

11
.
Chicago Herald Examiner
, September 11, 1918.

12
.
Boston American
, September 10, 1918.

13
.
Pawtucket Times
, August 24, 1975.

14
.
Boston Herald
, September 11, 1918.

15
.
Boston Globe
, September 11, 1918.

16
.
The Sporting News
, January 31, 1918.

17
.
New Yorker
, May 12, 1956.

18
.
New York Times
, August 17, 1922.

19
.
New York Times
, August 17, 1922.

1
. Asinof,
Eight Men Out
, p. 172.

2
. Dewey and Acocella,
The Black Prince of Baseball
, p. 277.

3
. From Ritter’s interview with Roush, available on CD at the Baseball Hall of Fame.

4
. Asinof,
Eight Men Out
, p. 13.

5
.
Boston Globe
, September 11, 1918.

6
.
Chicago Herald Examiner
, September 12, 1918.

7
.
Boston American
, September 11, 1918.

8
.
New York Times
, September 12, 1918.

9
.
Chicago Tribune
, September 12, 1918.

10
.
Boston American
, September 12, 1918.

11
.
Hartford Courant
, September 12, 1918.

12
.
Boston American
, September 12, 1918.

13
.
Chicago Daily Journal
, September 12, 1918.

14
.
New York Times
, September 12, 1918.

15
.
Chicago Daily Journal
, September 12, 1918.

16
.
Hartford Courant
, September 12, 1918.

17
.
Chicago Tribune
, September 12, 1918.

18
.
New York Times
, September 12, 1918.

19
.
Boston American
, September 12, 1918.

20
.
Chicago Daily Journal
, September 14, 1918.

21
. The doctor’s quote can be found at
http://1918.pandemicflu.gov/your_state/massachusetts.htm
.

22
. Venson,
The United States in the First World War
, p. 577.

23
.
The Sporting News
, November 20, 1919.

1
.
Chicago Tribune
, December 29, 1918.

2
.
Pawtucket Times
, August 24, 1975.

3
. The letter is in George Whiteman’s file at the Baseball Hall of Fame.

4
. The letter is in Les Mann’s file at the Baseball Hall of Fame.

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