Stltoday.com – Baseball: 1924: Jim Bottomley drives in 12 runs in a game – and the New York writers cover it with sarcasm

Wed, Sep 17, 1924 – Page 27 · St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, Missouri) · St. Louis Post Dispatch

“Sunny Jim” Bottomley made headlines in St. Louis with his 12-RBI game on Sept. 16, 1924.

The Post-Dispatch gave the story all-capital-letters treatment:

JIM BOTTOMLEY SMASHES BATTING RECORD OF 32 YEARS’ STANDING

In the St. Louis Globe-Democrat: Bottomley’s Blows Blast Brooklyn For Cardinal Victory, 17 to 3

But Bottomley’s big day actually wasn’t that big of a deal outside St. Louis. In