Ollie Pickering has been showing up in splendid form this year, but a comment about Pick ‘s ability to play ball was overheard from the lips of a woman critic on the car returning from Saturday’s game.” Do you know,” she said, ‘ ‘I think we are awfully weak in centerfield. Why Pickering didn’t catch that ball at ail and didn’t even touch it.” She referred to the triple which Ellam hoisted over Ollie’s head to the centerfield fence and for which the veteran made a gallant try. Pick will please take notice and amend his fielding accordingly.
-Baseball Dope by Fred Coburn
Minneapolis Morning Tribune
April 18th, 1910
Ollie Pickering finished up with a batting average of .296 with 16 home runs and 0 RBI. He played 889 big games during his career with the Houston Mud Cats, Fort Worth Panthers, Lynchburg Tobacconists, Omaha Omahogs, St. Joseph Saints, Columbus Senators, Grand Rapids Furniture Makers, Buffalo Bisons, Cleveland Lake Shores, Columbus Senators, Jersey City Skeeters, Minneapolis Millers, Louisville Colonels, Vincennes Hoosiers, Paducah Polecats, Omaha Rourkes, Terre Haute Terre-iers, Vincennes Alice, Henderson Hens, Owensboro Distillers, Winnipeg Maroons, St. Boniface Bonnies, Redfield Reds, and Paducah Indians. Pickering played his first game in the 1892 season and took the field for the last time in 1922.