Upon This Quiet Life

It’s the afternoon of (simulated) Thursday, October 9 at Chicago’s Old Comiskey Park. Hod Eller went to the mound for the Cincinnati...

Frederick Elbert was born on July 28, 1841 in Louisville, the son of Joseph John Elbert and Eva Katherine Mattoff. He was a stonecutter....

On the afternoon of (simulated) Wednesday, October 8 at Cincinnati’s Redland Field, the Chicago White Sox took on the Cincinnati Reds in...

From the Louisville Courier-Journal, September 29, 1889 The Booth and Barrett Engagement Closed With a Handsome Profit for the Managers....

My cousin Corporal John B. Carrico was born in Spencer County, Kentucky. He was the son of Joseph Butler Carrico and Sarah Jane Dodds. A...

It’s (simulated) October 7, 1919 at Cincinnati’s Redland Field, and it’s time for Game 6 of the Simulated 1919 World Series. This time,...

The son of Obed Wilson and Emma Willis, Sergeant Thomas E. Wilson was born in Shelby County, Kentucky on October 21, 1837. He was 6’1/2”...

Welcome to the afternoon of Monday, October 6, 1919, at Chicago’s Old Comiskey Park (it wasn’t called “Old” then), for the fifth game of...

William E. Truman, a cousin of President Harry S Truman, was born on October 3, 1838 in Shelby County, Kentucky, the son of Jessie Moses...

With our simulated 1919 World Series standing at Cincinnati two games to one, the Series resumed on simulated Saturday, October 4 at...

From the Hickman Courier, Hickman, Kentucky, June 16, 1882 The entertainment given by Prof. B. C. Caldwell’s School, Wednesday evening,...

Robert Robb was born in Shelbyville on April 11, 1842, the son of Robert Torr Robb and Juliette Franklin Crawford. He was six feet tall...

It’s Friday, October 3, (simulated) 1919. It’s 2:00 p.m. central at Comiskey Park in Chicago. And it’s time for . . . Game 3 of the...

John McGrath was born in Shelbyville in 1825, the son of Robert McGrath and Sarah Cardwell. He was 5’5 1/2” and had a light complexion,...

Welcome to Game 2 of the Simulated 1919 World Series, Now With Fewer Gamblers – again, at Cincinnati’s Redland Field. This time, Lefty...

James Samuel McConnell was born on June 9, 1845 in Clay Village, Shelby County, Kentucky, the son of John McConnell and Susan Newton. He...

A couple of weeks ago, we reviewed the Kentucky newspaper coverage of the 1919 World Series, the “Black Sox” series after which eight...

From the Louisville Courier-Journal, September 16, 1893 The New York Shakespeare Society has begun to reprint in its Bankside edition the...

Matthew William A. McCammon was born in Shelby County on August 11, 1838, the son of Matthew and Catherine McCammon. McCammon was 5’8”,...

From the Paducah Sun, December 30, 1910 Negroes Plan League Will Incorporate in Illinois – Southern Cities Chicago, Dec. 30 – Under the...