[Rarebooks] baseball item #8 from the Norman Kane collection (FS)

[Serendipity Books]

“And batting ninth, for the Sioux Indians, please welcome ‘Good Thunder’”

[the announcer to the throng]


1888 (Sept 27)                  OFFICIAL SCORE 
CARD.  Marshalltown, Iowa. September 27, 
1888.   9 1/8” x 7 ¼”, simple tan card stock 
printed in black.  Old light creases. “Browns” vs 
“Sioux Indians”  Local advertisements from the 
tailor, jeweler, druggist, coal man, and the ice 
cream wholesale and retail dealer; Migrant Line 
shavers; McMillan & Owings, Livery Feed and Sale 
Stable. Line ups and scorecard for each team, one to a side.

Lineups:

                       Sioux 
Indians: 
Marshalltown Browns:

                                 Eastman  (LF) 
                                                                     Kinsey 
(SS)
                                 Weston  (1B) 
                                                                    Richey (3B)
                                 Weston (K.) 
(2B) 
Ralston (RF)
                                 Brown (B.) 
(3B) 
Kennedy (C)
                                 Barnes   (C) 
                                                                       Bryson 
(2B)
                                 Whipple 
(P) 
Solon (P)
                                 Philbrick 
(CF) 
Goss (1B)
                                 Tuttle 
(RF) 
Brackett (CF)
                                 Good Thunder 
(SS)                                                              Evans (LF)

An extremely early record of The Sioux Indians, 
from South Dakota, who were still playing in 
1903, when they engaged the Kingston Colonials; 
“played at night, incredible as that may seem, 
under arc lights at the Driving Park” = the 
earliest baseball night game recorded?  Probably 
not
 The earliest high school football game was 
played on  Oct. 28, 1898, Elgin (H.S.)  vs. 
Aurora (West), at King Park, Elgin, IL ("lights 
strung on wires above the field).”  Another 
historian records that the “barnstorming Sioux 
Indians team plays Schenectady's NYS League team 
under portable lights at Island Park; Schenectady 
wins 11-3 in 5 innings before 700 fans (June 25, 
1903).” By 1903 the Indians “(whose pedigree as 
Sioux, or even Indians, was open to question)” 
and the All-Cubans were “two of the most famous 
barnstorming outfits of the day.”

Marshalltown was a vigorous center of baseball at 
this time, and contributed to the majors, among 
others, Billy Sunday and Cap Anson. 
“[Billy]Sunday left high school before graduating 
and moved to Marshalltown,  Iowa. There, he 
worked at odd jobs, was a runner on a competitive 
track team, and played for the local baseball team."  $900.00



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