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7-21-2020
Abstract
Scott Joplin first achieved recognition as a composer with the publication of his Maple Leaf Rag in Sedalia, Missouri in 1899. A few months later, a Sedalia newspaper reported that Joplin and fellow musician Henry Jackson organized the Shortridge-Robb baseball club. The club planned to host a team from Kansas City at Liberty Park in Sedalia on 4 August 1900. Nothing else was published about the team in surviving Sedalia newspapers. This monograph examines the circumstances surrounding the organization of the Shortridge-Robb baseball club in an attempt to ascertain why it was organized and whether it played any games.
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Scott Joplin, baseball, Sedalia Missouri
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Eberle, Mark E., "Scott Joplin, Ragtime, and Baseball in Sedalia, Missouri in 1900" (2020). Monographs. 23.
DOI: 10.58809/IVMK4697
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https://scholars.fhsu.edu/all_monographs/23
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