1915 - “White Autos” Baseball team of Cleveland, Ohio

Today, my good friend John sent me a link to a photo from 1915 that he discovered while combing through the Library of Congress image database (link HERE). The photo sparked my curiosity and lead me to research the “White Autos” Baseball team of Cleveland, Ohio.
While researching the team, I came across the above photo which I must say is nothing short of incredible. In addition, I found THIS article by writer John K. Davis which he writes about the game. It turns out that the photo above captured one of the largest crowds in the history of amateur Baseball.
This is what Davis had to say about the game:

On October 10, 1915, an Omaha team sponsored by Krug Brewery of that city met a Cleveland team sponsored by White Motors in the national amateur semi-finals, the winner to advance to San Francisco. The error-plagued Nebraska nine lost to the Ohio club 11-6 in a game that the Plain Dealer in a front page story the following day claimed drew a crowd of 100,000 to 115,000.
Like the game the year before, the attendance figure was only a “guesstimate.” However, photos at the Library of Congress of the 1914 game and the 1915 contest leave no doubt that the crowds were huge. Perhaps, as big as the audiences for two Olympic exhibition games decades later

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