Players Arriving at Robison Field to Head to Hot Wells, Tx., Training Camp
Huggins Plans To Carry Only Two Backstops Delegation of Slab Artists Will Head South Saturday Night Doak, Warhop, Ames and Lamline are Expected Today or Tomorrow February 24, 1916 Age 25 The St Louis Star and Times ST. LOUIS. The Cardinals will carry but two catchers during the coming season. This […]
Cards Are Set For Big Season, Declares Owner Britton
CARDS ARE SET FOR BIG SEASON, DECLARES BOSS Britton Believes That New Recruits Will Prove Big Help to Huggins and That Bescher, Doak and Meadows Will Star. PLANS TO START WORK ON NEW STANDS NEXT OCTOBER Concrete Grand Stands Will Be Built on Robison Field Site if Team Prospers This Year. Osteopathic treatment on Doak’s […]
Knell Sounding For Many Of Owner Britton’s Hirelings
Doak and Sallee seemed to be quite indifferent Indolence and indifference explain the failure of the Cardinals. No man ever treated players better and was treated worse by them than Mr. Britton. October 18, 1915 J. B. Sheridan, St. Louis Globe Democrat Sun Owners of baseball clubs in St. Louis heaved long signs when the […]
Mrs. Britton, Cardinals’ Owner, Blaming Umpires for Poor Standing
Writer, J.B. Sheridan, Mostly Blames Doak August 29, 1915 Age 24 By J.B. Sheridan St Louis Globe Democrat Sun The great Collapse has been that of Doak. The man who led the National League pitchers in 1914 has not won half his games in 1915. Not only that, he […]
Mrs. Doak and Cardinals Are En Route To Training Camp At Hot Wells, Tex.
Huggins: If we had won half our games during the first month of the season we would have galloped away with the pennant. February 15, 1915 Age 24 BY BILLY MURPHY. The St Louis Star and Times St. Louis. The first harbinger of spring appeared at Union […]
Dots Miller Denies Intent To Jump To Federal League
MILLER ANGRY AT ‘JUMPING’ REPORT; WILL PLAY TODAY Cardinals’ First Sacker Threatens to Sue Scribes Who Misquote Him. HIS FUTURE IS DUBIOUS ‘Wise Guys” on the Inside Say It’s Just a Matter of Money With “Dots.” Doak Gets The Win, Improves To 5-1 with 1.78 ERA. 2 ER, 8 Hits, 2 SO, 2 BB, 7.1 […]
President Britton Expects Great Things From Perritt, Doak and Robinson
All Ex-Pirates Now Secure in Cardinal Coral February 1, 1914 Age 23 By W. J. O’Connor, St Louis Post Dispatch When the signed contract of Rube Robinson, the wrong-handed hurler, was salted in a safe at Robison Field yesterday afternoon, President Schuyler Britton of the Cardinals sank into his swivel chair and gasped […]
All Players To Report Directly to St. Augustine
January 24, 1914 Age 22 St Louis Globe Democrat Sun President Britton announced yesterday that he had. sent out letters to all his players, instructing them to report at St. Augustine February 23. None of the players will come to St. Louis this spring, according to President Britton, but will go […]
President S. P. Britton Very Much Pleased to Get Doak and Hagerman To Sign
President S. P. Britton Very Much Pleased to Get Doak and Hagerman To Sign January 17, 1914 Age 22 By Willis E. Johnson St Louis Globe Democrat Sun President S. P. Britton of the Cardinals arrived home again after making a hurried trip to Pittsburgh. He seemed to be very […]
President Schuyler Britton Departed Hastily For Pittsburgh To Sign Doak And Hagerman
January 14, 1914 Age 22 The St Louis Star and Times President Schuyler Britton of the Cardinals has departed for Pittsburgh, where he expects to induce Pitchers Casey Hagerman and Pitcher Willie Doak to sign St. Louis National League contracts for the season of 1914.
Too Much Is Being Expected of Recruits Doak and Perritt for Next Season
December 15, 1913 Age 22 By W. J. O’Connor., St Louis Post Dispatch MORE TRADES ARE IN SIGHT, BRITTON SAYS “We’re not through trading yet,” declared President Schuyler P. Britton Monday upon his return from Cleveland, where he stopped on his way home from New York. “Manager Stallings of Boston would like to land […]