In honor of the World Series, a friend posted a photograph of her father (taken about 1935) with two early San Antonio names prominent. The photo of Daniel Bernhard Grassel shows him wearing a wool ...
User-Created Clip by mcgorry December 7, 2021 2021-12-04T08:53:29-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/037/1638914798.jpgPepperdine University professor Loretta ...
Ninety years ago, the baseball world was stunned as an 18-year female pitcher named Virne Beatrice “Jackie” Mitchell of Chattanooga signed a minor league contract with the hometown Lookouts. Several ...
Paul Bruce of Cocoa Beach is a lifelong baseball fan, and for an energetic, interesting man of 96, that goes back a long way. He remembers fondly his many baseball experiences when he was a kid back ...
The game of baseball seemed grandly American in the 1930s. Players had cherubic names — Birdie and Schoolboy, sounding like characters from a Broadway musical. Beneath the good times, though, breathed ...
I have an old family picture of my uncle Jose R. Briseno, who was born in 1920 and lived on the West Side during the 1930s. The photo shows my uncle and two friends at a baseball stadium in San ...
James E. Kerr, a retired Baltimore Fire Department lieutenant who played catcher on Pacific Coast League baseball teams in the 1930s, died Thursday of complications of Parkinson’s disease at Greater ...
Hal Trosky, Jr., a former Chicago White Sox pitcher, passed away November 23 at the age of 76. According to the Muscatine Journal, the son of 1930s baseball star Hal Trosky died in hospice care ...
Amidst a presidential campaign in which many of our countrymen deplore the choices we face in November, let’s take a break, follow the counsel of Ecclesiastes 3:1 (“For everything there is a season …” ...
The list of cities that have hosted big-league baseball grew substantially in December of 2020, when Major League Baseball announced that several Negro leagues from the game’s segregated era would ...