KOM Flash Report for 2/15/2018

A Special Version

of

The KOM League

Flash Report.

February 15, 2018

 

Note: Read carefully for a special offer: This material WILL NOT be shared on Flickr or to any audience outside the subscribers of the Flash Report. This Flickr address contains this report in case you lose the e-mail or wish to reference this report in the future.

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Over the course of sending Flash Reports I have learned that including more than one photo, or graphic, is a huge waste of the reader’s time and my energy.

 

In the previous report it was stated that Bill Clark is usually the only person who admits to reading each one. I heard from Hank Chott of Glendora, California that he reads every report and enjoys them all even though he was a self-described “insignificant statistic” as a member of the 1950 Iola Indians. One thing he did was pitch in a game at Carthage which many people would like to have claimed. He got out of Carthage after one game compared to Yours truly attempting the same tactic and never getting completely extricated from the old hometown until 1968.

 

Another reader, Jerry Hogan, from Fayetteville, Arkansas, admitted reading about 80% of each report. Me thinks it is about time to cut the verbiage and go to pictures and then, only on demand and sparingly.

 

With not much about which to write, I decided to share a document that has stared at me for over a decade. It has occupied a special place in my KOM League collection. If I revealed that the legendary Babe Ruth had any connection with a former KOM league player/manager I’d probably be ignored just like most of my reports.

 

Al Reitz was affiliated with five KOM league teams from 1946-52 and as a member of the Philadelphia Athletics, in April, pitched to Babe Ruth in at home run hitting contest in Spring training of 1925. Reitz told me the story 70 years after that event occurred and he was as thrilled in retelling the story as the day he grooved 24 pitches to the great Bambino. He sent me a cassette tape of his memory of that day which is now 93 years distant.

 

For only those who request it, a complete copy of material I have put together on an event that

occurred 98 years ago, will be shared. The year, of course, was 1920. Ruth who had just turned 26, the previous month, applied for an insurance policy with the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Co., of Hartford Conn. At the time he was listed as 6’ 2” and weighing 190 pounds.

 

In the collection is a photo of Babe Ruth, a copy of the application for health and disability insurance, the signed contract between the Hartford and Ruth, the insurance brokers terms for payment and the insurance card issued as a result of that policy.

 

If nothing else, you’ll learn that the subject of health insurance coverage is nothing new, even nearly a century ago.

 

For those wishing to view the material just described, I’ll be taking names for five days. Those responding will get the items within a week. This offer WILL NOT be repeated. Send your response to my primary e-mail address of j03.john@gmail.com Any other mail sent to the secondary address most likely will fall through the cracks.

 

 

Done