Holy Rollers All

O, we ain’t a Holy Roller

     Of the Holy Roller kind;

And we ain’t a Holy Jumper

     Of the jumper kind you mind.

But we like to jump and holler

     An’ we like to roll an’ shout,

But it’s when our local pitcher

     Strikes the other fellers out.

O, we ain’t a Holy Roller

     As the Holy Rollers go;

Though we must admit that often

     We just make a holy show.

An’ we ain’t a Holy Jumper,

     But we always jump an’ shout

When our peerless local batter

     Knocks a distant comet out.

Don’t condemn the Holy Rollers

     Nor the Holy Jumpers too,

Till you visit of the diamond

     An’ observe what we can do.

O, we ain’t a Holy Roller,

     But we have to roll and scream

When our champ, bean-eatin’ speeders

     Put it on the other team!

April 15, 1910

"Holy Roller" is a term for some Christian churchgoers of the Methodist, Holiness, and Pentecostal traditions. The term is sometimes used derisively by those outside these denominations, as if to describe people literally rolling on the floor in an uncontrolled manner. However, those within these Wesleyan traditions have reclaimed it as a badge of honor; for example William Branham wrote: "And what the world calls today holy-roller, that's the way I worship Jesus Christ." Gospel singer Andrae Crouch stated, "They call us holy rollers, and what they say is true. But if they knew what we were rollin' about, they'd be rollin' too." 

Merriam-Webster traces the word to 1841. The Oxford English Dictionary cites an 1893 memoir by Charles Godfrey Leland, in which he says "When the Holy Spirit seized them ... the Holy Rollers ... rolled over and over on the floor." 

Joe Hill's 1911 song "The Preacher and the Slave" contains the lines "Holy Rollers and Jumpers come out / And they holler, they jump and they shout". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Roller

re: Holy Jumpers - The story of the Metropolitan Church Association (MCA), an intentional religious community founded in Chicago and later Waukesha, Wisconsin in the early 1890s. A product of the holiness revival of the late nineteenth century and an important catalyst for Pentecostalism the MCA played a significant role in the twentieth century growth of Pentecostal Christianity and were one of the dozens of evangelical communal societies that flourished between 1890 and 1917. As one of the most controversial communal societies of the era, its members were commonly known as ‘holy jumpers’ because of their acrobatic worship style, or ‘Burning Bushers’ because of their acerbic periodical the Burning Bush. 

http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195377842.001.0001/acprof-9780195377842

Gus Getz - 1910

  Boston Beaneaters - The Cincinnati Red Stockings, established in 1869 as the first openly all-professional baseball team, voted to dissolve after the 1870 season. Player-manager Harry Wright then went to Boston, Massachusetts at the invitation of Boston Red Stockings founder Ivers Whitney Adams, with brother George and two other Cincinnati players, to form the nucleus of the Boston Red Stockings, a charter member of the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players

The Red Stockings dominated the National Association, winning four of that league's five championships. The team became one of the National League's charter franchises in 1876, sometimes called the "Red Caps" (as a new Cincinnati Red Stockings club was another charter member). Boston came to be called the Beaneaters in 1883, while retaining red as the team color.

The team was decimated when the American League's new Boston entry set up shop in 1901. Many of the Beaneaters' stars jumped to the new team, which offered contracts that the Beaneaters' owners didn't even bother to match. They only managed one winning season from 1900 to 1913, and 100 Gus Getz, 1910 lost games five times. In 1907, the Beaneaters (temporarily) eliminated the last bit of red from their stockings because their manager thought the red dye could cause wounds to become infected (as noted in The Sporting News Baseball Guide during the 1940s when each team's entry had a history of its nickname(s). See details in History of baseball team nicknames). The American League club's owner, Charles Taylor, wasted little time in changing his team's name to the Red Sox in place of the generic "Americans".

Nickname changes to the Doves in 1907 and the Rustlers in 1911 did nothing to change the National League club's luck. The team became the Braves for the first time in 1912. 

They remained as the Boston Braves through 1953, after which they moved to Milwaukee to become the Milwaukee Braves. In 1966 the Braves completed the move to Atlanta. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Boston_Braves

Boston Doves (Beaneaters)

Opening Day, 1910