You Be the Judge

At the beginning of the 1920 season, Tom Rice, longtime sportswriter for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, attended opening days in Brooklyn and Philadelphia.  In Brooklyn, the first pitch was thrown by Charles Edwards, the president of the Brooklyn Club (a prominent social club - Charles Ebbets was a member), while in Philadelphia, the honors were done by Mayor J. Hampton Moore.  Rice claimed that both men continued the tradition of assuming a pose "suggestive of a fat lady threatening a rent collector with a flat iron."  You be the judge!

Brooklyn Daily Eagle - April 15, 1920

Philadelphia Inquirer - April 23, 1920