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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Figtree3, post: 51441, member: 33&quot;]I think that Clayton is the key to this, if only it could be figured out.</p><p><br /></p><p>The fact that the writer was a student at Concordia College may or may not have anything to do with the team. All he was doing was writing the location at the top of the note in a header, meaning that he was writing the note from there. Doesn&#039;t mean the baseball game had anything to do with the college. In fact, I think that any college baseball team would have ended their season long before October. Most of them play in the late spring or early summer, I think.</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh, and in the middle of this page are baseball scores from Concordia College for the 1916 season. <a href="http://dept.cord.edu/sports/sportsbackup/finn/ch2a15.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://dept.cord.edu/sports/sportsbackup/finn/ch2a15.html" rel="nofollow">http://dept.cord.edu/sports/sportsbackup/finn/ch2a15.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Only four scores listed.</p><p><br /></p><p>The note is dated October 8, 1916 and that is the day after the 1916 World Series began. I think this group was playing a game in emulation of the &quot;real&quot; World Series... sort of a fantasy game played by these college-age guys.</p><p><br /></p><p>I notice that he wrote &quot;No place like Clayton. Ha ha!&quot; -- So just wonder what in the world Clayton was. A real place? Or just the name of a pretend city for the team?</p><p><br /></p><p>Puzzling... and thus, intriguing as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>Fig[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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