In honor of the soon to be named Joplin baseball team, here’s one more photograph of Joplin’s longest lasting professional team, the Miners from some time in the 1910s to 1920s.
Unfortunately, this is a private photograph with no labeled names or dates, so the scowling fellow will have to go down nameless into posterity. We will never know what irritated him approximately 100 years ago. For a large version of the image, just click on the photograph.
Do you have any information on other teams like the Joplin Miners? I have a photo of my grandfather in a baseball uniform just like this one with an “I” inside the triangle on the uniform instead of a “J”. I assume that the Joplin Miners would have played this team and were in the same league.
Thanks for any help you can provide.
Cathy
Unfortunately, not much. We know there were other teams in the area, including an African American team known as the Night Owls.