London Tecumsehs, 1877

The London (Ontario) Tecumsehs of the International Association for Professional Baseball Players in 1877, the year they won the league's first championship.

The team is named for the Shawnee leader Tecumseh, who fought the Americans in Tecumseh's War and the War of 1812, dying at the Battle of the Thames in Ontario. Despite fighting against the Americans, he remains highly regarded by Americans, Canadians, and First Nations/Native Americans alike.

Fred Goldsmith, on the far left, is one of three pitchers (the others being Candy Cummings and Phonney Martin) credited with inventing the curveball.

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Marco F. Delminho, kiiti, Simon Downham, Diana Australis and 5 other people have particularly liked this photo

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John FitzGerald ^club has replied

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Thanks, Diana.

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John FitzGerald ^club has replied

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Yes, those bib fronts have probably not been since, Esther. I'm pretty certain they had disappeared by the twentieth century, anyway.

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Steve Bucknell ^club

Their heads look weirdly separate from their bodies to me, as though they’d put them through holes in a stage set up. ( I may be under the influence of drink.)

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John FitzGerald ^club has replied

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I see your point, Steve, especially in the front row. They did like to monkey around with negatives in those days.

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Diane Putnam ^club has replied

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I think they wanted them to have longer necks, although that's not proven to improve one's skill at baseball.

5 years ago.

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