St. Louis Cardinals – Kitty League Baseball

William “Buster” Brown

During the early twentieth century, Buster Brown was a comic strip character and mascot associated with boys’ clothing and shoes. William “Buster” Brown, the baseball player, was anything but cute. He was a minor-league power hitter of the early 1920s — “the Babe Ruth of Sunland” — when home runs first changed the game. “BusterContinue reading “William “Buster” Brown”

Orville Tipton

Lori Graham contacted me through the Kitty League Baseball Facebook page and asked for information about her great-grandfather, Orville Tipton. She knew he had played for Hopkinsville, Kentucky, though he lived in Indiana and Illinois. Orville Glen Tipton played two seasons in the Kitty League, 1913-1914. Born in Yale, Illinois, on 21 May 1891, heContinue reading “Orville Tipton”