Charles Merritt Babcock, 1940.Painting by Carl Wendell Rawson.

Charles Bender baseball card printed by the American Tobacco Company, 1911.

Charles Bender during the prime of his baseball career, 1911. Photograph by Paul Thompson. Bender, who is credited with inventing the slider (a type of breaking-ball pitch), was born on the White Earth Reservation of Ojibwe. He pitched in and won six World Series games—a first in the sport.

Charles Biederman with a cat.