A couple of days ago I received an email from noted cricket historian Tom Melville regarding my last post on Henry Chadwick, Byron Wharton and the Wright brothers. Tom differs from my observation that the woodcut that George Wright mentioned in his letter to Chadwick was the one published by Harper’s in 1858. Lets revisit [...]
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Archive for April, 2012
While researching the life of -yet another- antebellum cricketer, I came across a neat account in one of Henry Chadwick’s columns involving the main subject of my research, cricketer William Byron Wharton and brothers Harry and George Wright. Chadwick had just begun writing a series of articles about Harry Wright shortly after his passing in [...]
Shortly after Harry Wright’s death in the fall of 1895, baseball league ‘magnates’ set up a committee to arrange a day in the spring of 1896 to be called “Harry Wright Day.” On that designated afternoon of April 13, 1896, exhibition and old-timers games would be played around the country with revenues going toward building [...]
Another ‘Spalding Collection’ photo needs to be properly identified by the New York Public Library staff. The carte de visite photograph of the ‘Unidentified Cricket Player’ or image 55913 depicts none other than John Lillywhite. The son of Frederick William Lillywhite, also known as “Old Lilly”, the nonpareil cricket bowler, was born on November 10, [...]