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Category: <span>Baseball</span>

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Dubuque Packers – Kansas City Royals first farm club.

January 1, 2021 John T. Pregler

Charlie Finley had been looking for a magic bullet to turn his baseball club into a money-making winner for several…

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Posted in: Baseball, Dubuque Filed under: Baseball, Dubuque Packers, Johnny Patrakis, Kansas City Royals, Max Lanier

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Dubuque’s League Park

November 8, 2020 John T. Pregler

For the past 50 years a popular postcard image believed to have been taken between 1910 and 1912 has long…

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Posted in: Baseball, Dubuque, Photography Filed under: Baseball, Charley Comiskey, Comiskey Park, Dubuque, League Park, Ted Sullivan, Tom Loftus

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Red Faber & Babe Ruth

October 16, 2020 John T. Pregler

This photograph of Urban “Red” Faber was released to news agencies in June of 1923 by International Newsreel Photo after…

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Posted in: Baseball, Biography, Dubuque Filed under: Babe Ruth, First Homerun, Red Faber

Tom Loftus: The American League’s Forgotten Founding Father

June 24, 2020 John T. Pregler

The following article first appeared in the Spring 2020 edition of the Society for American Baseball Research’s (SABR) Baseball Research…

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Posted in: Baseball, Biography, Dubuque Filed under: American League, Charles Comiskey, Ted Sullivan, Tom Loftus, Western League

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  • FROM THE ARCHIVES: Dubuque Packers – Kansas City Royals first farm club.
  • FROM THE ARCHIVES: Dubuque’s League Park
  • FROM THE ARCHIVES: Red Faber & Babe Ruth
  • Tom Loftus: The American League’s Forgotten Founding Father
  • Captain Rathbone – On Duty in Dubuque

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