1908 Baseball Newspaper Guide: The East

More old papers.

1908 Baseball Newspaper Guide: The East

We’re following along the same pattern that we introduced last time. Again, we’re only looking at newspapers from June 10, 1908. We’ll look at the different papers for the sake of comparison.

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Philadelphia

The Philadelphia Inquirer is the obvious first stop in the City of Brotherly Love.

It’s not a bad newspaper — it’s clean and easy to follow.

I’m not sure why this is, but I could only find gossip news about the Phillies.

Sadly, The Philadelphia Inquirer is the only option we have for 1908 in Philadelphia.

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Boston

The Boston Globe is probably going to be your default option here.

Now THIS is a sports section.

There’s a treat here, of course. You’ve got a cartoon:

And you’ve also got a phot of a rookie: the somewhat obscure Larry Gardner:

It’s a great paper — clearly one of the best in the country in 1908.

Back with more next time!