A few players thrived on the road despite the conditions, but most disliked the demands of travel in the early 20th century. St. Louis Cardinal Stan “The Man” Musial, was awarded the “Passenger of the Year” in 1954 by Trans World Airlines (“TWA”), and he was featured in a few magazine ads for the airline based in St. Louis.
Still, the games went on, and a few teams found great success away from home. In 1916, the New York Giants left for a twenty-one game, twenty-four-day road trip that sent them west to Pittsburgh and on to Chicago and St. Louis before looping back to visit Cincinnati, Boston, and Philadelphia. There must have been some magic in their suitcases. The Giants won the first seventeen games on that trip and went 19-2 overall. But to illustrate how tough it could be, later in
