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Today’s amazing piece of #suffrage history is this Sporting World clip from 1915. 1/8
Both Fred Clarke of the Pittsburgh Pirates and Pat Moran from the Philadelphia Nations are wholehearted in their support for Votes for Women. “Women suffrage as I have seen it has a good batting average and mighty few errors in its record,“ declared Clarke. 2/8
Given the state of that era’s journalism, I can only assume there was a faction of “shut up and play” types that were roundly ignored as ”George Whitted, Oscar Dugey, Luderus and Bert Niehoff nearly got into a fight in trying to beat each other to to a chance to declare that 3/8
They thought that women had every right to the vote and that it was rank injustice to keep it from them.” Well said, boys! Of course, not everyone used baseball‘s power for good during the fight for women’s suffrage... 4/8
This cartoon by Donald McKee in 1914 stuff a lot of tropes about feminism and suffrage’s threat to men into a single frame. 5/8
Sports has long been a forum to discuss important social issues and as a fan I hope it stays that way. 6/8
I encountered both the McKee cartoon and the Sporting World column during my research for a new #boardgame called #VotesForWomen which is live on #kickstarter. We are halfway thru the campaign and if yoI want to be able to play the ”Baseballers for Suffrage” card back it now! 7/8
Head to http://www.votesforwomen.com to learn more about how to play and to pledge your support. You’ll be able to retrace the steps of suffragists as they build power across the country to ratify the #19thAmendment by 1920! 8/8
some people who may enjoy this thread: @keithlaw @Britt_Ghiroli @chelsea_janes @EireannDolan @TheNatidude @fortcircle
