Thanks all for your comments! Putting a story behind an item is what drives me. These pieces wouldn't mean half as much to me, if I couldn't put a name and a face to it - in this case much more than that! I love the newspaper accounts of Hasting's playing ball - in one game against Harvard scoring the games only run, the winning run, on a Squeeze play in the 10th inning, and then being carried off the field by the crowd.
Hastings played on the 1906 team coached by Glenn S. "Pop" Warner and assistant coach Hughie Jennings...can you imagine! That team was ranked second, and the following year, under Coach Coogan, they were intercollegiate champs (tied with Princeton).
I love discovering background stories...on my "What's New?" page there is a 1910 baseball picture of Bill Matchneer, and accounts of him being hit in the Face by a baseball and being hit by a Train...all in the dame day!
https://www.iyellcornell.com/copy-of-cornelliana
Thanks for letting me share.
Cheers
Joe