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This photo shows Bert Niehoff with his father, Charles Niehoff: <br />In the early 1900s, when Bert was about twenty years old, his father, Charles Niehoff, sent him to <br />Denver to become an electrician. Denver directories from 1904 and 1905 show that he was working <br />there. In 1905, he married Mabel Rule. (In 1911, they had a son, Lloyd.) A strike in Denver prevented <br />him from working, which led him to find work in Trinidad, Colorado. There, he got on the town's <br />baseball team and his baseball career started in earnest. <br />From a minor league team in Louisville, Kentucky, Bert Niehoff then played in the major leagues from <br />1913 to 1918. He played for the Cincinnati Reds (1913-1915), the Philadelphia Phillies (1915-1917), St. <br />Louis Cardinals (1918) and the New York Giants (1918). He was a second baseman. Travelling as much <br />has he did with the teams, he undoubtedly was the most well travelled person from Louisville at the <br />time. <br />Niehoff played for the Phillies in the 1915 World Series, with one of the games attended by President <br />Woodrow Wilson. It is said to have been the first time that a US President watched the World Series live. <br />The Phillies lost to the Boston Red Sox that year. <br />13 <br />