(clockwise) Rosenberg baseball team, ca 1900 • Baseball team standing in front of grandstand • Fort Bend Little League Colts, 1964 • Boy in baseball uniform • Boys in uniform sitting in cars
Spring is here and it is time for baseball. Baseball has been played in Fort Bend
County since at least the 1890s. There were teams in Rosenberg and Richmond at
that time. Sugar Land also had a semi-pro team.
In 1903, the Rosenberg team played four Waddell brothers: George caught, Ed
pitched, Jake played first base and Bob played a deep second base. A fifth
brother, Charlie, didn
’t play. The Rosenberg team included S.R Heard, Albert Lee, F. L. Heard, Percy
Mulcahy, Stephen McCormick, Charlie Lester, Clem Mulcahy, Richard Mulcahy and
Dick Chew. The teams played in front of 500 people for a purse of $50.
Amazingly, the Waddell brothers won the game 43 to 14.
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