Volume 11 , Issue 32

1901 American League Version - St. Louis Browns

The American League version of the St. Louis Browns started out as the Milwaukee Brewers in 1901. After finishing in the American League (A.L.) basement, the franchise was moved to St. Louis for the 1902 season and renamed the Browns."

My Grandpa McGill didn't play for the Brown's until September, 1907 when they were trying him out has their pitcher.

The Austin Senators (Minor League team) ended it's season in 1906, winning the Pennant. Afterwards, Grandpa went back home to Oklahoma for a visit before he played out the rest of the season with a team in Des Moines, Iowa.

While Grandpa was still in this Minor Leagues with the South Texas League in late May, 1906 (between May 25th & 29th game), the following was written about McGill. I believe these articles came from Lake Charles, Austin, or the Houston Post in 1906.

Headline -- "Austin Takes The First Game - Long Legged Pitcher McGill Puzzles The Hard Hitting Creoles." --- "Failure on the part of the home team effectively to connect with the puzzling delivery of McGill, the elongated twirler of the Austin team, who was in rare form, despite his tiresome railroad trip, was responsible for the defeat of the Creoles (Lake Charles) in yesterday's game... One of McGill's favorite stunts is to stagger backward as he delivers the ball. It looks like the beginning of a wild pitch but is generally a strike."
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