Thursday, July 27, 2023

Harry Passon: Philadelphia Baseball Entrepreneur

 https://sabr.org/journal/article/harry-passon-philadelphia-baseball-entrepreneur/

Cecil Wetzel was born in Plano

 https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=wetzel001cec

Harry Miller: an exceedingly scant career spread over 17 years

 https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=miller004har

Gene Bearden made-up story of war injury

 https://chevronsanddiamonds.wordpress.com/2023/06/28/laying-gene-beardens-uss-helena-story-to-rest/

Bisbee deportation

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisbee_Deportation

imprisoned in local ball-park , kidnapped 
all very strange

Life and baseball in WWII Arizona Japanese-American internment camps

 https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2021/05/11/diamond-in-the-rough-japanese-americans-imprisoned-at-arizona-camps-during-wwii-found-solace-in-baseball/

Map of the Foreign-Born Population of the United States, 1900

 https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/spotlight-primary-source/map-foreign-born-population-united-states-1900

Life in the 'hairy underground': the lost history of Soviet hippies

 https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/oct/23/lost-history-of-soviet-hippies-documentary-communism

Wednesday, July 19, 2023