English: I took this photo on December 10, 1981. The plaque at that time was badly corroded. It has since been restored, and I re-photographed it on November 25, 2005. The plaque reads:

      Charles "Old Hoss" Radbourne    1854-1897

      A Bloomington man who became one of the
      greatest baseball pitchers of all time.

 Selected by over two hundred baseball authorities
 to be one of the immortals of baseball and to have
 his name and record placed in the baseball Hall of Fame
 in Cooperstown, New York, in the year of our Lord 1940.

 He was a pitcher in the National League for
 ten years and in the Players' League one year.

 In eleven years of major league pitching he won 310
 games and lost 191 games for a winning percentage of .619.

 The year 1884 saw him win 60 games and lose 12 games.
 60 games won remains the record for games won in the
 major leagues as of 1940.  From August 6th, 1884, to
 September 3rd, 1884, he pitched and won 18 consecutive
 games for Providence, Rhode Island, in the National
 League.  During this year 1884 he struck out 411 men.
 On July 25th, 1883, he hurled a no hit game against
 Cleveland.  His record for the three best years of his
 pitching career, 1882, 1883 and 1884 reads 147 wins
 and 56 losses.  No pitcher has equaled this
 record of wins in his best three years.

 Erected as a tribute to an illustrious son of
 Bloomington, Illinois, by a group of baseball fans

in the year of our Lord 1941.