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Women Physicians – 1858

The difficult trek across the plains and deserts of the frontier, to Rocky Mountain destinations and beyond, was viewed by the first women physicians as just another obstacle to overcome on the way to achieving their goal. They wanted to practice medicine and believed they would have a chance to do that in the mining camps and cow towns in the West. Initial attempts to practice their profession sent shock waves through the deeply patriarchal society.

Doctor Elise Pfeiffer Stone was subjected to a barrage of ridicule and criticism after an article about her practice ran in the March 5, 1888, edition of a Nevada City, California newspaper. “Lady physician – Mrs. E. Stone, who is, we learn, a thoroughly educated and accomplished physician, has established herself in Selby Flat, and offers her services to the ladies of Nevada and vicinity.” A note left on the door of Doctor Stone’s office in response to her advertisement read, “It would be so nice if you weren’t here.”

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Prison ball club waiting for the game to begin.

“It is ironic that the Wyoming State Penitentiary in Rawlins opened for business in 1901, the same year as the American League, but that is where comparisons end between these “outlaw leagues.” The prison ballplayers knew real pressure, facing death if their defeat cost their jailers money in lucrative bets on the prisoners. Authors Chris Enss and Howard Kazanjian do a wonderful job of recreating the era and the prison system that put these Death Row All-Stars on the playing field as black hats facing local nines throughout the wild west.”  Matthew Silverman, Author – Swinging ‘73: Baseball’s Wildest Season & Baseball Miscellany: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Baseball

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Leavenworth, Kas., Oct. 28, 1910 – The federal prison baseball league closed a successful season with Saturday’s game, when the Booker T.’s won their fifteenth game to the Brown Sox’s fourteen. Until the last inning of the final game was played the result was in doubt, as each team had won and lost an equal number. In the final inning when the Booker T.’s scored two runs against the Brown Sox the score on the prison league grounds rivaled that at Boston, when the victors in the world’s series scored their final run defeating -the New York Giants. Although, financially. The league was not a success it fully equaled the expectation of its promoters, which was to aid the prison discipline and furnish the prisoners innocent amusement at a nominal expense.

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Death Row All Stars Second Baseman, Frank Fitzsgerald

SAN FRANCISCO, CA. May 12, 1915 — In the opening game of the San Quentin prison baseball season one of the best men on the team playing second base became incensed over what he considered poor judgment of the umpire. “Ah’ll knock your head off when I get outa here,” he yelled. “You’ll have to go some to catch me,” grimly answered the umpire. “I’ll beat you through the gate by three and a half.”

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On March 15, 1915, Warden Tom J. Tynann of the Colorado penitentiary, described as “the man who put ‘mun’ in humanity in prison reform,” announces that he is organizing a baseball team among the convicts. Tynann was the first penitentiary warden to install moving pictures and the first to try the system of rewards for good conduct by sending the best behaved convicts to build and improve the roads of the state. He proposes to have a baseball team to compete with teams of the state league and other teams from the surrounding towns and cities. Tynann is s baseball “fan” himself. “I’ve got some crackerjack material down here,”‘ says Tynann, “and I’m going to utilize it. Got a housebreaker that can outrun Ty Cobb. Join the Feds? No chance. No bush leagues for us. We’ll be in the AA class or none at all.” The convict team will go into training as soon as a wall Is built around four acres of ground which the warden has laid out for the purpose.

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