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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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