Toledo News Bee, April 2, 1913:

Manager Chance has hit on the idea of using a headgear when he goes to the bat this year. The Yankee manager is confident that with the use of the dress he will regain his old confidence and be as good as he ever was with the stick.

A helmet? For batting? That’s just crazy talk.

San Francisco Call, January 11, 1913:

Frank Chance, newly named leader of the New York American league team, announced that he would try to “come back” as a player this year…Chance would go to first base, relieving Hal Chase, the star initial sacker, and Hal would be shifted to second base, a position he is anxious to fill.
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[Chance on Chase:] “He is fast enough on his feet to overcome the handicap of being left handed. He probably would not make a double play as fast as a speedy right ...

The [Chicago] Day Book, December 12, 1912:

Joe Tinker has at last become manager of the Cincinnati Reds. The Cub shortstop, with Catcher Chapman and Pitcher Loudermilk, was yesterday traded to the Reds by Murphy for Mitchell, Phelan, Knisely, Humphries and Corriden.
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As a result of this dicker Frank Chance will be the new manager of the New York Highlanders. This was definitively settled when seven National League clubs waived on him in return for the American doing the same in the case of ...

Milwaukee Journal, November 29, 1912:

[Cubs president Charles] Murphy, according to the close friends of [Reds president Gerry] Herrmann, had agreed on a trade whereby Joe Tinker was to go to Cincinnati in exchange for Mike Mitchell and [Art] Phelan of the Reds and Red Corridon [sic] of the Detroit Americans. This deal was arranged Wednesday night, it was said, and Murphy and Herrmann were to have met [Thursday] to sign the papers. Instead Murphy did not show up…he had changed his mind.
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