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unusual facts about stockings



1870 in baseball

The Mutuals, Athletics, and Chicago White Stockings survived to found the National League in 1875/76.

1871 Boston Red Stockings season

The Boston Red Stockings were formed in 1871 by Boston businessman and Ashburnham native Ivers Whitney Adams.

1879 Michigan Wolverines football team

The first intercollegiate football game in Michigan history was played against the "Purple Stockings" from Racine College on May 30, 1879, at the Chicago White Stockings' grounds in Lakefront Park (now part of Grant Park).

1885 Cincinnati Red Stockings season

During the off-season, the Red Stockings hired O. P. Caylor to become the manager of the team, the first time in club history that the club did not have a player-manager.

Aches and Pains

She includes chapters that advise on such topics as "Baring Your Body", "Elastic Stockings", "Giving Up Drink" and "Cheering Things About Chest Pain".

Beals Wright

Beals was born in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, the son of Cincinnati Red Stockings great George Wright and nephew of Cincinnati Red Stockings team founder Harry Wright.

Bigoli

In "La vecchia cucina eugubina" they say that this noodle is as thick as a wooden needle for knitting stockings.

Call Out the Marines

The fast paced Hellzapoppin' type comedy uses the spy plot as merely an excuse for five musical numbers by Harry Revel and a variety of comedy sequences such as barroom brawls over thrown garters, spies and policemen with speech impediments, and jeep, motorcycle and car chases.

Capitoline Grounds

In Darryl Brock's 1990 novel, If I Never Get Back: A Novel, the main character is transported back in time to 1869, where he joins the Cincinnati Red Stockings on their quest to remain undefeated.

Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor

Charles was extremely discontented at the loss of Spain, and as a result, he mimicked the staid Spanish Habsburg court ceremonial, adopting the dress of a Spanish monarch, which, according to British historian Edward Crankshaw, consisted of "a black doublet and hose, black shoes and scarlet stockings".

Conkey

John Conkey, the owner of the Boston Red Stockings of the National League in 1872

Dick Hurley

Along with two of his teammates, Andy Leonard and Charlie Sweasy, he was recruited by Harry Wright as the utility man for the rival Cincinnati Red Stockings in 1869–70, being paid $600 per season for his efforts.

Edmond H. Barmore

Barmore played at the halfback position on the 1879 Michigan Wolverines football team and participated in the first Michigan football team, a victory over Racine College played at White Stockings Park in Chicago.

Frank Hankinson

Almost all of his pitching came in 1879 with the White Stockings, when he was 15–10 in 25 starts.

Mandarin orange

Saint Nicholas is said to have put gold coins into the stockings of three poor girls so that they would be able to afford to get married.

Olga Broumas

With Jane Miller: Black Holes, Black Stockings (Wesleyan, 1985).

S. S. Davis

Also known as the Cincinnati Red-Stockings, they became the first professional baseball team in 1868.

Smallpox demon

In European countries the "red treatment" was practiced from the 12th century onwards; when he caught smallpox, King Charles V of France was dressed in a red shirt, red stockings, and a red veil.

The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries

He also wears his Légion d'honneur and Order of the Iron Crown decorations, along with gold epaulettes, white French-style culottes and white stockings.

They Just Had to Get Married

The screenplay was written by Gladys Lehman, H.M. Walker, and an uncredited Preston Sturges, based on the Broadway play A Pair of Silk Stockings (1914) by Cyril Harcourt.

Trews

They were fastened at the lower leg, below the knee, by a garter (the precursor to the flashes of the Highland Dress) as can be seen in the painting by David Morier of the Battle of Culloden.

William Redmond

Billy Redmond or William T. Redmond, (1853–1894), St. Louis Red Stockings shortstop


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