Mobile's Hartwel Field, circa 1935

Babe Ruth in Mobile, circa 1920

Baseball in Mobile, Alabama: 

Transcriptions from the Charles Dickson Collection


Charles Dickson was an amateur historian who spent many hours researching the history of this area. His collection contains microfilmed copies of his handwritten three-ring notebooks. Included within the notebooks are histories of the Mobile sports, the theater, Mobile military, Mobile baseball, Mobile settlers, as well as retrospectives on wars throughout American history, studies of the colonial powers and Indians of Mobile, and a look back at the Reconstruction period.

Click on the links below to read transcriptions from Dickson's baseball scrapbooks.


Mobile Baseball 1868-1910    |    Mobile Baseball 1911-1920    |    Mobile Baseball 1921-1930       

Mobile Baseball 1931-1950   |   Mobile Baseball 1951-1962