​"Please do not send us any more about the Mark Baldwin case.  It's the oldest thing in base ball."  This was the expressive message a local correspondent of a Cincinnati paper received one night last week.  The man grabbed the telegram like a hungry lad snatches a sandwich.  It was the most agreeable news he had received for a long time.  He, too, had been of the opinion that the affair was a chestnut.  He had frequently sent little stories about it against his own judgment. 

-Sporting Life, September 17, 1898

​Pittsburg, Sept. 5. - In the United States Circuit Court this morning Judge Marcus W. Acheson handed down an order dismissing the plaintiff's appeal in the suit of Chris Von der Ahe, the base ball magnate, and the victim of the famous kidnapping case, against Harvey A. Lowry, Sheriff of Allegheny County, and John McCleese, warden of the jail.  The appeal is dismissed for the failure of the appellant to comply with the law and rules of Court pertaining to appeals and to take out a citation and file the record with the clerk of the Supreme Court within the time required by law.  

-Sporting Life, September 10, 1898

​Washington, D.C., Sept. 8. - News has been received at League headquarters that the Baldwin-Von der Ahe damage suit, which was decided against the St. Louis ex-manager several months ago, was ended at Pitsburg Tuesday by the attorney of the St. Louis magnate paying the amount of the Baldwin judgment, in the neighborhood of $3000, together with the costs, something over $1200.

-Sporting Life, September 10, 1898

There is a prospect that the litigation which began between President Chris Von der Ahe, of the St. Louis Club, and pitcher Mark Baldwin for false imprisonment will come to an end shortly.  Baldwin has secured judgment in all the Courts before which his case came.  Chris appealed six months ago.  Chris filed notice of appeal to the United States Supreme Court to further stay the collection of $2500 and costs awarded to Baldwin.  The appeal has not been perfected, and Baldwin's lawyer on Monday moved that it be quashed.  The Court will hear arguments on the motion Sept. 5.  Much depends upon the action of Von der Ahe's attorney in this city, J. Scott Ferguson.  He may file valid reasons for his client's failure to perfect this appeal or he may allow the affair to go by default.

​-Sporting Life, August 27, 1898

Mr. Von der Ahe has had a falling out with Glover, his lawyer, and will now have to secure new legal talent to assist him in his trusteeship, to look after his Mark Baldwin complication, his divorce suit and other affairs of the like sort with which Mr. Von der Ahe is harassed.

-Sporting Life, March 26, 1898

The story telegraphed from St. Louis that the suit of pitcher Mark Baldwin against Chris Von der Ahe had been settled only applies to the St. Louis end of the litigation.  Baldwin has not compromised the judgment he was awarded in the local courts against the St. Louis magnate.  Attorney C.A. O'Brien, who has charge of Baldwin's interests, stated yesterday that the case at this end still awaits a hearing in the United States Supreme Court.  "The $4000 deposited on behalf of Von der Ahe some time ago to cover the Baldwin judgment and Nimick claim, and also to secure his release from the county jail pending an appeal to the highest court, is still in the hands of a Pittsburg trust company," said Mr. O'Brien, "and I only wish that I was as sure of some other matters as I am that the higher court will decide the case in our favor after having heard the appeal."

-Sporting Life, April 30, 1898

The celebrated case of Mark Baldwin against Chris Von der Ahe has been dismissed and Baldwin pays the charges.  Baldwin sued Von der Ahe to recover $2700 judgment secured against him in Pittsburg for alleged illegal arrest and imprisonment.  The kidnapping of Von der Ahe grew out of the case, which has become famous in base ball litigation.  Baldwin pays all the costs growing out of the case, and it is understood that he was successful in compromising with Von der Ahe in that he loses nothing.  The terms of the settlement can not be learned, as Von der Ahe simply says that the case has been dismissed, but will not state on what grounds or what the compromise was.

-Sporting Life, April 30, 1898 

Mr. Von der Ahe has had a falling out with Glover, his lawyer, and will now have to secure new legal talent to assist him in his trusteeship, to look after his Mark Baldwin complication, his divorce suit and other affairs of the like sort with which Mr. Von der Ahe is harassed.

​-Sporting Life, March 26, 1898

Ex-pitcher Mark Baldwin - Von der Ahe's greatest bete noir - still loves base ball, and occasionally umpires semi-professional games in the vicinity of Pittsburg.

​-Sporting Life, October 8, 1898

National League owners in 1897

The annual Spring or schedule meeting of the National League and American Association was held Feb. 28 and March 1,2, at St. Louis, Mo...The regular meeting of the major league convened on the evening of Feb. 28, and the following delegates were present: ...Chris Von der Ahe, St. Louis...

​-New York Clipper, March 12, 1898

Shout the glad tidings.  Bring out the "fatted calf," and let the news of Chris.' return be heralded throughout the length and breadth of the land.  The wonderful German does not show any signs of wear and tear in consequence of his rough handling.  From accounts received from Pittsburg we expected to see an emaciated biped, tattered and torn and shattered mentally, but shades of Pompey! the exile turned up as natty and swell betogged as any Waldere Kirk, and the smiles that wreathed his rubicund visage bespoke the serenity of the gray matter under his hat.  He was so glad to be home.  He was like a lost child returning to his mother, and felt at peace with all the world.  Messrs. Muckenfuss, Peckington and other friends met him at the station, and escorted him out to Sportsman's Park in triumph, where there was feasting and merry making ad libitum.  When asked to give a detailed account of his

Extraordinary Abduction

he became very much excited, and his blood was at fever heat while he narrated the cruel success of the law's minions.  He stated that he was forced into a carriage, and notwithstanding his cries for help no one, not even two policemen standing by, would come to his rescue.  The abductors beat him almost into insensibility, and tore every button off his coat in their rough handling of him.  "If anybody had told me," said Mr. Von der Ahe, "that any half a dozen men could have taken me away as they did I would have laughed at them, but they did , and I cannot now realize how such a thing could happen in a big city like St. Louis, and in one of the principal localities.  The police force needs overhauling."

The Grand Jury

will take the matter up at an early date, and indictments will be sworn out against all the participators, and every effort will be made to get satisfaction for the wrongs inflicted upon a very worthy man, who has advertised St. Louis more than any citizen of that great city.  The Governor of the State had pledged the whole machinery at his command towards chastisement of the violators of our statues, and the finale of this celebrated case will prove whether the vested rights of an American citizen is a mere "pipe dream" or not.  No man is safe on our streets if this outrage is allowed to go unpunished, and every individual is especially interested in seeing that Von der Ahe is as fully indemnified as the law and the pocketbooks of his traducers will permit. 

-Sporting Life, March 5, 1898