1914-1915 Federal League

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I have a friend that works for the St. Louis Cardinals organization as their Museum Curator. Last night at softball he was telling me that he met I guy that I would be interested in meeting. He is Phil Ball's great grandson. Phil Ball was the owner of the St. Louis Terriers Federal League team prior to owing the St. Louis Browns.

My friend said during the meeting he was shown a St. Louis Terriers final out ball inscribed by Phil Ball, as well as some other original St. Louis Terriers memorabilia (and St. Louis Browns). My friend sees great things as the curator of the St. Louis Cardinals museum all the time, but even he was astonished to see there was some Federal League stuff out there. As of now this stuff will remain with the family, though there are talks of possibly having it loaned to a museum in the future (no plans of yet).

I hope to meet this gentleman some day and see his family collection, but even if I don't, knowing it is surviving out there is very cool.

I was curious to see if anyone has any Federal League stuff.

My lone survivor is this Ward Miller photo from the Terriers:


PS I know this is memorabilia, but figured the home page would still work since there are some card sets with the Federal League represented.