Feature Face-Off

ID: 2773 ~ Source: “Baseball Today.” Austin American-Statesman, August 2, 1896, p. 5. Accessed via Newspapers.com; “Baseball Today At Zoo Park.” Austin American-Statesman, August 3, 1896, p. 3. Accessed via Newspapers.com.
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Feature Face-Off

When the Waco Yellow Jackets visited the Austin Reds in the summer of 1896, the local paper described the teams as “the two best colored clubs in Texas.” The only losses in Waco’s 26-2 record came at the hands of the Reds. The clash of the two teams—with the Yellow Jackets riding the pitching of Rube Foster—made the games of interest to the majority white readers of the Austin American-Statesman.

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