Sunday, April 19, 2020

Baseball fatality

(From July 26, 1934, p.2 TSN)

PAMPA, Tex. -Raymond Ater, Shortstop of the independent Pampa team, died here, July 22, after being hit on the head by a pitched ball against Shawnee, Okla., the day before. H. Smith was on the mound for the Oklahoma team. Ater was born in Roscoe, Tex. , Nov. 22 1911, and was with Tyler in 1932. Last year he was with Fort Worth of the Texas League.

TSN stats for players

Johnny Frederick, July 19 1934, p.2
Charles O'Leary  July 26, 1934, p.2
Pinky Higgins, July 4, 1940, p.3
Will Rogell, August 1, 1935, p.2
Burleigh Grimes, November 7, p.7
Big Bill Dinneen, Dec. 28 1933, p.7
George Watkins, Nov. 14, 1935, p.6
Lefty O'Doul, Oct. 6, 1932, p.8
Rube Marquard, Jan. 26, 1933, p.6
Otto Miller, Feb. 13, 1936, p.7
Gabby Street, Nov. 15, 1934, p.6 
Heinie Zimmerman, Jan. 10, 1935 p. 7



Saturday, April 18, 2020

Article about Buzz Arlett trade

TSN, Dec. 24, 1931, p. 1 and 3

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Article about Farina of Our Gang

The Afro American, March 1, 1930, p. 8

Friday, April 10, 2020

Yankee Customs Checklist

#               Player          Years         # of Yankee cards before date
1      Billy Martin          1950-1957            515           4-10-20
2      Derek Jeter           1995-2014          16,366        4-10-20       
3      Babe Ruth            1920-1934           9,325         4-10-20
4     Lou Gherig           1923-1939          3,480           4-10-20
5     Joe DiMaggio        1936-1951         2,749           4-10-20
6    Joe Torre                 manager              426             4-11-20
7    Mike McNally        1921-1924           7                4-10-20
8     Ernie Johnson       1923-1925            0                4-10-20
9      Hinkey Haines      1923                    1                4-10-20

Thursday, April 9, 2020

1935 Southern Association All-Stars- not finished

CF- Peck Hamel, Atlanta
2B- John Mihalic, Chattanooga

Baseball in England

https://paperofrecord.hypernet.ca/paper_view.asp?PaperId=834&RecordId=15&PageId=7756426&iDateSearchId={D1045AA7-46F5-4C9F-9408-DDE7C027D704}

1932 Junior World Series

https://paperofrecord.hypernet.ca/paper_view.asp?PaperId=834&RecordId=7&PageId=7755308&iDateSearchId={96058348-2AD1-49C2-B2DF-3193A2E41C5F}

oct. 13 1932

1932 IL All-Star team

OF-Puccinelli- Rochester- .395
OF-Winsett-    Buffalo    - .357
1B- Jordan, Baltimore       .355
OF-Walker, Newark          .351
C- Outen, Jersey City       .341
SS- Rolfe, Newark           .333
2B- Miller, Buffalo           .328
3B, Owen, Toronto-Newark .321
P, Brennan, Newark          26-8

" , Ernest J. Lanigan admits that the batting averages had a great deal to do with his choices. But this seems to be the yardstick by which a player's merit is usually measured in these times, so here is the lineup. There is plenty of power in it."

                 The Sporting News- October 13, 1932 p.7

Wednesday, April 8, 2020

1920 College No-Hitters

April 23, Leffert, of the University of Georgia, beat the University of Pittsburgh 6-0
May 15- Thomas, of Penn State, beat Washington and Jefferson 13-0
May 19- "Tubby" Clark, of the Harvard 2nd team, beat the St. John's Prep School 3-0, striking out 13
May 24- Dana Schrader, of the Yale Freshmen Team, beat Choate School team 13-0, without an error behind him

1919 MILB no-hitters

May 2- In Southern League, Crews, of Birmingham, beat Mobile 14-0
May 12- In the International League, Rommel, of Newark, beat Toronto 1-0
May 14- In IL, Jordan, of Buffalo, beat Jersey City 3-0
May 20- In Eastern League, Winn Tylor(?), of Waterbury, beat New Haven 1-0, striking out 11 with 2 walks.
May 27- In I.I.I. Murchison, of Peoria, beat Moline 6-0
June 13- In Eastern League, Colby of Worcester beat Providence
June 15- In Western League, Sparks, of Tulsa, beat Joplin 6-0
June 15- In Virginia League, Pierson, of Suffolk, beat Portsmouth 3-2, the 2 runs being on errors
July 19- In Southern League, Roberts, of Atlanta, beat Chattanooga 2-0
July 19-In Texas League, Bono, of Shreveport, beat San Antonio 2-1, the run coming on an error
July 26-In PCL, Sutherland, of Portland, beat San Francisco 11-0
Aug. 1-In Michigan-Ontario League, John Glasler, of Hamilton, beat Branford 4-0, struck out 12 and walked 3
Aug. 19- In PCL, Fred Falkenberg, of Oakland, beat Seattle 6-0
Aug. 20- In Michigan-Ontario League, William Morrisette, of Hamilton, beat Bay City 4-0, and struck out 12
Aug. 22- In I.I.I., Frank Winchell, of Evansville, beat Moline 2-0
Aug. 31-In Western League, Gregory, of Wichita, beat Joplin 5-1, with the run being scored on an error
Sep. 20- In PCL, Oldham, of Portland, beat Seattle 1-0

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

1919 College no-hitters

April 24, at Easton, PA, Moyer, of Lafayette,  beat Syracuse 10-0, striking out 10
April 28, at Villanova, PA, Sweeney, of Villanova Prep team, beat La Salle 7-3, the runs coming on 5                 walks and several passed balls.
May 3, at Anapolis, MD., southpaw Baker, of the Naval Academy, beat Virginia M.I. 4-0
May 31, at Urbana, Ill. , Park, of Michigan University, beat Illinois University 7-0, striking out 9



Sunday, April 5, 2020

1917 College no-hitters

April 4- At Athens, GA, Pitcher Philpot of Georgia, shut out Ogelthorpe 1-0,
April 6- At Lexington, KY, Hershy, of Lexington, shut out Washington and Jefferson.

Short Collegiate Note

In 1918, Yale won all of it's 8 games.

Thursday, April 2, 2020

photo links

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Elston_Howard_1961.png  mlb
https://cooperstownersincanada.com/2012/08/31/the-1954-montreal-royals-team-photo-roberto-clemente/

Custom Card Checklist

#           Player                       MLB/MILB               DATE             Team       
1    Randy Hundley                MILB                      4-2-20               Tacoma
2    Maury Wills                        MLB                    4-2-20              L.A      Dodgers pictured as MILB