On August 12, 1908, John Irwin, owner of the Sweet Summer Dream Hotel on Peddock's Island, invited Boston baseball men, including the Rooters, former players and members of the sporting press to a day of baseball related events. Pictured here, in front of the hotel, are Boston's most prominent sportswriters. Top, left to right: O.W. Brown, Boston Traveler, Mose Chandler and S.P. Carrick, Boston Journal, Charles Leary, Fall River, Timothy Murnane, Boston Globe, Sam Crane, New York Journal, and O.J. Burke, Boston Journal. Bottom row: Wallace Goldsmith, Boston Globe sports cartoonist, Arthur Cooper, Boston Post, Herman Nickerson, Boston Journal, Ralph McKenna, Boston Herald, J.C. Morse, Baseball Magazine, and Paul Shannon, Boston Post.
