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Ted Sullivan, Barnacle of Baseball
Illustration from Nashville American , February 14, 1893. Ted Sullivan needs no introduction to baseball fans, for to introduce him would be to introduce baseball itself. Mr. Sullivan is so well known in the baseball world that if you should in the blissfulness of your ignorance plaintively ask Who is Ted Sullivan? you would thereafter be shunned and avoided as a person of unsound mind ( Abilene Daily Reporter , March 25, 1920).
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Jefferson, North Carolina
Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
Names: ONeill, Pat, 1953 author. | Coffman, Tom, author.
Title: Ted Sullivan, barnacle of baseball : the life of the prolific league founder, scout, manager and unrivaled huckster / Pat ONeill, Tom Coffman.
Description: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021034552 | ISBN 9781476684789 (paperback : acid free paper) ISBN 9781476642604 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Sullivan, Timothy Paul, 18481929. | Baseball playersUnited StatesBiography. | ImmigrantsIrelandBiography. | BaseballUnited StatesHistory19th century. | BaseballUnited StatesHistory20th century. | BISAC: SPORTS & RECREATION / Baseball / History
Classification: LCC GV865.S885 O54 2021 | DDC 796.357092 [B]dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021034552
British Library cataloguing data are available
ISBN (print) 9781-476684789
ISBN (ebook) 9781-476642604
2021 Pat ONeill and Tom Coffman. All rights reserved
No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying or recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.
Front cover image: Ted Sullivan illustration from Nashville American , February 14, 1893.
Printed in the United States of America
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Box 611, Jefferson, North Carolina 28640
www.mcfarlandpub.com
Patti Peters and Julie ONeillWho want never again to hear Ted Sullivans name spoken in their presence. God bless them for their love and patience.
James BradleyLate of County Mayo, who channels Teds spirit and character for us.
Karen BrownMost patient friend and copy editor.
Mike CaseyAward-winning former reporter and editor for the Kansas City Star .
John DawsonAuthor, researcher extraordinaire and most supportive friend.
Kevin and Karen FlynnWho kindly shared their great knowledge of early Washington baseball.
Mike KelleyAward-winning former reporter and editor for the Kansas City Star and the Las Vegas Sun .
Bob KendrickExecutive director of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum.
Mads MadsenTalented artist and colorizer who brought to life the photos of Ted, young and old.
Milwaukee Public Library Rare Books teamwho gave us access to a rare copy of Humorous Stories of the Ball field .
Dan ReganGraphics designer, friend and creative counsel.
Jeff SackmanWho transcribed Humorous Stories of the Ball Field in his Summer of Jeff blog.
Barbara Scanlon and Stacey HodgesGenealogists who dug up Teds lineage for us.
John ThornWho graciously shared St. Louis Unions memorabilia with us.
Scott WilsonDescendant of the Sullivan clan who shared with us a most rare copy of Ted Sullivans 1915 book, Famous Colored Stories of the World .
Dorothe WernerTranslator from French and speaker of that language most beautifully
Other readers, advice-givers, bugs and cranksChris Coffman, Bob Cox, Joe Fogarty, Carol Gonzales, Michael Gonzales, Bill Grady, Vahe Gregorian, Jenell Wallace Loschke, Mike Lynch, Mike Mahoney, Scott Marlo, Roisin Nevin, Lonnie Shalton, Tommy Wyrsch.
Thanks to the professional, gracious and helpful librarians at the Missouri Valley Room of the Kansas City (MO) Public Library, The St. Louis (MO) Public Library, the Midcontinent Library (Independence, MO), the St. Marys (KS) Public Library, the Paris (TX) Public Library, the Carnegie-Stout Public Library in Clinton (IA), the Burlington (IA) Public Library, the Chicago (IL) Public Library, the Milwaukee (WI) Public Library, the Los Angeles (CA) Public Library.
Special thanks to: Derek Gray, archivist Special Collections, Washington, D.C., Public Library; Susie Anderson-Bauer, archivist, Pius XII Memorial Library at Saint Louis University; Amy Nelson, associate director of archives and record management for the Archdiocese of Milwaukee; Peter Beirne and Brian Doyle, Clare County (Ireland) Public Library; Emily-Jane Dawson, Multnomah County (Oregon) Library; Lauren Gray, head of reference, Kansas State Historical Society.
In his day, T.P. Ted Sullivan was considered the best baseball mind in America. Some went so far as to call him The Daddy of the sport. He was early baseballs town-hopping bandleader; the ringmaster of the minor leagues; a George Washington, a Harold Hill, and a P.T. Barnum all rolled into one.
Damon Runyon dubbed him The Barnacle of Baseball.
Cunning, fast-talking, witty, charming, serious, and sober, Ted Sullivan traveled more than a million miles in the days of horse-drawn buggies, soot-spitting trains, and lumbering steamships. From the late 1860s until the day he died in 1929, Sullivan played, managed, and scouted for dozens of leagues and teams, planting the seed of his beloved sport across the breadth of the United States, Mexico, Europe, Asia, and South America.
In 1911, White Sox impresario Charles Comiskey, a.k.a. The Old Roman, spoke for many in the early baseball world when he said: Ted Sullivans standing in the profession of baseball cannot be measured by modern standards. He is in a class all by himself. He is ever and always ahead of his time, with knowledge of the game and a versatility that no other baseball man of my acquaintance has ever possessed.
An Illinois scribe described Ted Sullivan, in his palmy playing days of the 1870s, as a red-cheeked, sturdy little Irishman, very much undersized for a pitcher. He was good-natured, crafty, a chatterbox when wound up, very proud of his ancestry and himself.
Sullivan is, in fact, credited with discovering Comiskey in college and turning him into a crackerjack big league first baseman and, later, one of the most famous magnates of major league baseball. The two were the closest of friends their entire lives, with Comiskey maintaining Sullivan as the White Soxs chief talent scout and organizer of the teams annual spring training encampments.
Without question, in those early days no one worked harder or traveled more miles to promote baseballand his own reputation and legacythan Irish-born Timothy P. Ted Sullivan. For 50 years, from 1879 to 1929, newspapers and magazines sang his praises, genuflected to his genius, and bought his blarney by the barrel.
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