Federal League – The Chapman Deadball Collection

Bennie Kauff, 1915 Brooklyn Tip Tops

1- Photographs, Agencies, Collections, Federal League, Photos published in Baseball Photography of the Deadball Era, Underwood & Underwood

Bennie Kauff in 1915 with the Federal League Brooklyn Tip Tops. Photo by Underwood & Underwood

1914 Federal League First Game of the New League

1- Photographs, Federal League

Larry Schlaffly, Manager of the Buffalo Buffeds and Otto Knabe, Manager of the Baltimore Terrapins exchange greetings just prior to the first ever game of the Federal League. Here is the image in the Baltimore paper the next day. A truly historic image!

Edd Roush – Federal League, 1915

1- Photographs, Edd Roush, Federal League, Hall of Famers, Photos published in Baseball Photography of the Deadball Era, Western Newspaper Union

Roush demonstrates his classic slap hitter style, he was perhaps the preeminent place hitter of his generation. This photo shows him with the Newark Peppers of the Federal Leaugue in 1915. Here is a paragraph from SABR’s bio on Roush: “Roush wielded a short, thick-handled…