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“Clubhouses from By-Gone days” Photo Gallery
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Pepper Martin having fun in Cardinals’ clubhouse

Red Sox clubhouse;:Bits Bierhalter, Moe Gottlieb, Johnny Orlando

Players in front of lockers. That’s Lefty Grove in chair

Red Sox players in clubhouse. L-R: Ed ‘Bull’ Durham, Wilcy Moore, Bob Kline and Paul Ivy Andrews

Pepper Martin and the Mudcat Band. That’s Pepper playing the accordion. Around him L-R are: Lon Warneke, Dick Siebert, Ray Harrell, Herb Brenner, Jimmy Brown, and Bill McGee.

Cardinals in clubhouse, 1968. L-R: Roger Maris, Tim McCarver, Bob Gibson, Mike Shannon, Lou Brock, Orlando Cepeda, Curt Flood, Julian Javier, Del Maxvill, and manager Red Schoendiest.

Bill McKechnie with Wally Berger in Braves clubhouse

Dodger Club house man John Griffin, 1955

Gil Hodges in Dodger club house talks with reporters

Yogi Berra Sal Sal Maglie converse after Don Larson’s WS perfect game

Ted Williams talks hitting with young teammate

Carl Yastrzemski and Joe Foy horsing around, 1968

Celebration in Cub clubhouse in 1945. Trainer Andy Lotshaw holds up Charlie Grimm.

Boston Red Sox Clubhouse, Vintage 1928!

My recent post from the 1912 New York Giants spring training workout showing them on what appears to be a cow pasture, got me thinking about other baseball facilities from bygone eras that – shall we say –are not quite up to modern standards.

In the featured photo, we see a scene from the Boston Red Sox clubhouse in Fenway Park vintage 1928. Check out all the details of what a clubhouse from years ago actually looked like. I believe that’s a cast-iron furnace and the trainer, Bits Bierhalter, is taking out a “hot stone.” Must have been a cold day in Boston! Quite a contrast from today’s luxury clubhouses and lavish weight rooms (see photo below).

I was able to identify Jack Russell sitting on the left, Charlie Berry standing and Danny MacFayden with the glasses (one of the very few ballplayers from this era to wear glasses).

Here’s some info on trainer William “Two-Bits” Bierhalter (1869-1941) I found on Baseball Reference:

“Bits Bierhalter began his career as an umpire in the minor leagues. He was apparently suspended from umpiring in 1915 and became an athletic trainer. From 1918 to 1923, he worked for the St. Louis Browns and in 1924, he moved to the Boston Red Sox.”

“On four occasions between 1918 and 1924, he was pressed into service as an umpire when the regular umpires either did not show up or were unavailable. This used to happen regularly back then, and substitute players or coaches would usually be asked to take over, but in Bits’s case, his experience as a professional umpire meant that he was a lot more ready for the emergency work.”

Be sure to click on the photo to get an even better look. Then check out the photo gallery to see a few more vintage pics from inside the clubhouse from days gone by!

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4 thoughts on “Boston Red Sox Clubhouse, Vintage 1928!”

Hi Gary – Could you post a bio of a favorite of mine growing up, Don Elston? He was a workhorse out of the pen, especially in 1958 and ’59. Thanks, Jim