Talk:Eddie Ainsmith

I am 73 years old. When I was a kid (8 or 9) my father told me about a major league baseball player who lived on one of the floors of my dad's triple decker on Western Avenue in Cambrdge Massachusetts.

My father said he would see Eddie leave every spring with a suitcase and a baseball bat. He told me that Eddie Ainsmith was a catcher for the Washington Senators and that he caught the famous, Walter Johnson.

After all these years, this website has documented the veracity of dad's story.

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Where do we get the information that he wore #14? They didn't have uniform numbers then. - --Mischa 21:29, 25 January 2007 (EST)

Now Batting, Number... The Mystique, Superstition, and Lore of Baseball's Uniform Numbers by Jack Looney (ISBN 1579125751) says he wore 14 in 1923 and 27 in 32 (coach). The Cardinals wore numbers on their sleeves in 1923, 1924, and 1932. --Just me 22:07, 25 January 2007 (EST)

Ah, so numbers on the back were the later innovation. I wasn't aware anyone ever had sleeve numbers. Neat. - --Mischa 09:20, 26 January 2007 (EST)

Leona

Every article I found reporting the Leona incident says that she was over 6 feet tall and some said just 6 feet but after I found this picture I'm not so sure. Ainsmith was only 5'11 and she's the one standing right next to him (I think that's him on the left end?) in this photo I found. She appears to be slightly shorter than Ainsmith plus the hat adds a little too, though it's hard to tell because of how the picture was taken at an odd angle from the side. No doubt she was really tall, even just by looking at her limbs in the pic on this page but I don't think she was really over 6 feet tall. Maybe like 5'10 or 5'9 which is still big for a girl. 𝕮𝖔𝖉𝖞 (talk) 07:15, 26 November 2024 (UTC)

Also in regards to their trip to Japan, I wouldn't exactly call it "successful" as the page says. From what I read, they only won one game and after the media attention of the first one, people just stopped showing up after they lost and they barely made anything out of it.

Here's an article on the trip - https://sabr.org/journal/article/rethinking-the-philadelphia-bobbies-1925-tour-in-japan-embarrassment-to-the-nation-or-great-success/ - Mischa (talk) 19:24, 2 January 2025 (UTC)