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“The Next Babe Ruth” | Baseball History Daily
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Heroes, Villains, Oddities and Minutia–The Forgotten History of the National Pastime. 8220;The Next Babe Ruth”. After he hit 11 home runs in 1918, and for the next two decades, stories about the discovery of The Next Babe Ruth. Became commonplace in newspapers across the country. One of the first was Joe Doyle. The Babe Ruth of Great Lakes, signed by the St. Louis Cardinals in November of 1918. Doyle was the star of the team representing Camp Dewey at Great Lakes Navel Training Station where,. After four...
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Cy Perkins | Baseball History Daily
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Heroes, Villains, Oddities and Minutia–The Forgotten History of the National Pastime. Tag Archives: Cy Perkins. I mentioned Satchel and Josh and Cool Papa, I told Him he was Missing the boat. After Heywood Broun’s remarks at the 1933 Baseball Writers Association dinner about integrating the game. Initiated a campaign to push the issue. Despite some support inside baseball and from well-known newspapermen, the effort fell flat by opening day. The Chicago Daily News. In the fall,. Pitch to Babe Ruth. The o...
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Heroes, Villains, Oddities and Minutia–The Forgotten History of the National Pastime. Tag Archives: Doc Prothro. 8220;Stars for A’s, Pep for Phils In Negro Ranks”. The push to integrate baseball in the late 1930s and early 1940s came most frequently from the black press. But occasionally a white voice. Would call for the color line to be broken. In May of 1940, with both Philadelphia teams struggling and headed towards last place finishes (Phillies 50-103, and Athletics 54-100),. A Memphis native, told.
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Babe Ruth | Baseball History Daily
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Heroes, Villains, Oddities and Minutia–The Forgotten History of the National Pastime. Tag Archives: Babe Ruth. Tell the Babe to Choke Up on his Bat”. While Babe Ruth kept a low profile or as low a profile as he could. In Sudbury, Massachusetts, and occasionally New York, during the winter of 1922, he received hitting advice from Christy Mathewson. Ruth struggled at least for Ruth, 35/96/.315 all season after starting the year suspended by Commissioner Kennesaw Mountain Landis. Once he says he saw Ruth ch...
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A Thousand Words “Cool Papa” Bell | Baseball History Daily
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Heroes, Villains, Oddities and Minutia–The Forgotten History of the National Pastime. A Thousand Words “Cool Papa” Bell. James “Cool Papa” Bell (center) poses with an oversized bat, Commissioner Bowie Kuhn (left) and Monte Irvin, in 1974 after Bell was inducted into the Hall of Fame by the Negro league Committee. Irvin was inducted the year before. In 1984 Negro League pitcher Chet Brewer said of Bell’s legendary speed:. James "Cool Papa" Bell. Happy 4th of July →. May 18, 2015. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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“I mentioned Satchel and Josh and Cool Papa, I told Him he was Missing the boat” | Baseball History Daily
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Heroes, Villains, Oddities and Minutia–The Forgotten History of the National Pastime. I mentioned Satchel and Josh and Cool Papa, I told Him he was Missing the boat. After Heywood Broun’s remarks at the 1933 Baseball Writers Association dinner about integrating the game. Initiated a campaign to push the issue. Despite some support inside baseball and from well-known newspapermen, the effort fell flat by opening day. The Chicago Daily News. In the fall,. Briefly picked up the mantle from. The optimism was...
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Video and Audio From Baseball’s Early Years | Misc. Baseball
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Gathering Assorted Items of Baseball History and Trivia. Video and Audio From Baseball’s Early Years. This is a guide to some video and audio resources from baseball before World War Two, in the spirit of this blog’s general attempt to unearth and re-present useful or at least entertaining material from baseball’s past. I don’t claim that this will be comprehensive, but I hope to provide some links to interesting material that would be pretty hard to find through web searches. And then another set. As fo...
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Whitey Ford Batting in the 1961 World Series | Misc. Baseball
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Gathering Assorted Items of Baseball History and Trivia. Whitey Ford Batting in the 1961 World Series. This is a little photo I got from the newspaper archives, of Whitey hitting the dirt after getting hit by a ball he’d foul-tipped off his bat. He was in the midst of extending his scoreless innings pitched in the Series streak, with the Yankees winning game 4, 7-0, before just 32,589 at Crosley Field. Published in: Uncategorized on April 23, 2015 at 10:27 am Comments (1). To TrackBack this entry is:.
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Excerpts From the 1990-1993 Uniform Player’s Contract for MLB | Misc. Baseball
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Gathering Assorted Items of Baseball History and Trivia. Excerpts From the 1990-1993 Uniform Player’s Contract for MLB. I recently bought a copy of the labor agreement MLB reached in 1990 to end that year’s lockout. It’s about 100 pages long, in a spiral notebook. Here are two excerpts from the player’s contract that’s printed near the end of the agreement:. Published in: Uncategorized on June 12, 2015 at 7:35 pm Leave a Comment. To TrackBack this entry is:. Feed for comments on this post. Notify me of n...
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“To Hell With Babe Ruth” | Misc. Baseball
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Gathering Assorted Items of Baseball History and Trivia. 8220;To Hell With Babe Ruth”. You might have wondered about the veracity of the story that Japanese troops said this when fighting U.S. soldiers in the Pacific theater during World War II. This isn’t quite confirmation, but the below image of a snippet from Time magazine’s March 20, 1944 issue lends the story a fair amount of credibility. Published in: Uncategorized on July 25, 2015 at 9:10 pm Comments (3). To TrackBack this entry is:. You are comm...
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