The 30-Year Search for Shorty Gallagher Finally Comes to an End

In the 1990s, Randy Kula set out to collect a photo of every baseball player to appear in a game for the Cleveland franchise, a charter member of the American League in 1901. Over the years, he whittled his targets from more than 2,000 to just one: Charles William “Shorty” Gallagher, who spent one afternoon in the majors on Aug. 13, 1901.