An Aggregation Of Conceit: The Minneapolis Keystones 1907-1911

1900 Waseca EACO’s

1902 Waseca EACO’s

1903 St. Cloud, MN

1904 Renville All-Stars

1905 Chicago Union Giants

Phil “Daddy” Reid

1907 St. Paul Gophers

Edward “Kidd” Mitchell

The Keystone Hotel and Buffet

1908 Minneapolis Keystones

Walter Ball

George Hopkins

Alex “Happy” Irwin

“Topeka” Jack Johnson

William Binga

Bobby Marshall

Jesse Schaeffer

1908 St. Paul Gophers

Nicollet Park

1909 Minneapolis Keystones

Willis Jones

Haywood “Kissing Bug” Rose

Frank “Bunch” Davis

Waukon, Iowa 1909

William “Dizzy” Dismukes

1910 Minneapolis Keystones

Tobe Smith

“Big” Bill Gatewood

Clarence “Dude” Lytle

Archie Pate

Hurley McNair

Jesse Briscoe

1922 Askin & Marine Red Sox

Image Sources Paul Debono, The Indianapolis ABCs, (Jefferson, NC, and

London: McFarland & Company., Publishers, 1997), 138. Phil Dixon with Patrick J. Hannigan, The Negro Baseball

Leagues: A Photographic History (Mattituck, NY: Amereon House, 1992), 49, 51, 74, 87.

Swinging For The Fences, edited by Steven R. Hoffbeck (St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2005), 75.

Stew Thornley, Baseball In Minnesota, (St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2006), 101.

Image Sources The 1900, 1902 Waseca EACO’s images appear

courtesy of the Waseca County Historical Society, Waseca, MN.

The 1903 St. Cloud ball club image appears courtesy Stearns History Museum, St. Cloud, MN.

The 1907 St. Paul Gophers image appears courtesy of Ron and Kathy Ebert.

The 1908 St. Paul Gophers image appears courtesy of Fred Buckland.

Image Sources

The images of the 1909 St. Paul Gophers appear courtesy of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, NY.

The 1909 Waukon, Iowa image appears courtesy of Brian Campf and eBay.

The 1910 Minneapolis Keystones image appears courtesy of Jason Miller.

Image Sources Courtesy of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential

Library, Springfield, IL: DeKalb Advertiser, May 31, 1911.

Courtesy of the Chicago Historical Society, Chicago, IL:

Chicago Daily News negatives collection, SDN-002974, SDN-003012.Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Washington, DC:

Indianapolis Freeman, March 12, April 16, 1910.

Image Sources

Courtesy of the Minnesota State Historical Society, St. Paul, MN:

Alexandria Post News, June 10, 1909. Lester Prairie News, July 14, 1910. Minneapolis Tribune, June 15, 28, July

26,1908, June 13, July 18, 1909, May 19, 1912.

Image SourcesCourtesy of the Minnesota State Historical Society, St. Paul, MN:

Red Wing Daily Republican, June 26, September 12, 1908.

Renville Star Farmer, June 3, 1904. St. Paul Appeal, October 28, 1911, October

26, 1912. St. Paul Dispatch, August 23, 1908.