Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 199, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1913 — STARTED CAREER AS PITCHER [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

STARTED CAREER AS PITCHER

Roger Bresnahan Got His Start With Semi-Professional Team In Michigan—Sent Back Twice. Roger P. Bresnahan, catcher for the Chicago Cubs and former manager of the St Louis Cardinals, was born in Tralee, Ireland, June 14, 1880. He started his baseball career as a pitcher in 1898, playing with a semiprofessional team at Manistee, Mich. During the next two years he was tried and sent back by both Washington and Chicago. It was not until he drifted to Baltimore in 1901 that Rpger made good. In 1902 the New York Giants landed him for a catcher and outfielder. He was a star in the world’s series of 1905, in which the Giants beat the Athletics., Bresnahan got a chance to manage the St. Louis Cardinals and persuaded McGraw to let him go. In his first year as a Cardinal, 1909, he made his team hustle,

and it was said the St. Louis club made more money than for several years before. Roger did not get along with the owners, however, and last winter drew his release from St Louis and signed with the Cubs.

Roger P. Bresnahan.