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A shopkeeper in a covered market in Colombo keeps track of his produce.
Shamed I am but here to see is the mark I left when I dragged my finger over the 'E' on the head of my neglected bass; for shame!
We're Here, worse for wear.
Hand-held & manually focused. Remote triggered strobe. Greyscale & heavy contrast increase in :Lightroom.
Blow it all at Pelcomb Portraits.
the writing = a exchange of words between me and a friend, silently passing a note across a desk
the picture = self portrait when i got home in the middle of the night
Aeronautica Militare Boeing KC-767, departing RAF Waddington during Exercise Cobra Warrior 2022. Note the dust kicked up by the departing plane, indicating the dry conditions after a summer with little rain.
Illustration for www.notebookism.com. Field Notes® is a product of Coudal + Draplin. www.fieldnotesbrand.com.
If you are going to dress up a Chevrolet Cavalier/ Holden Camira as a Cadillac Cimarron, at least make sure the paint matches up on the whole car!
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Red-wattled Lapwing (Vanellus indicus)
Burung Rapang Duit
Note: Shot near Kampung Kenangan Bidor, Perak.
Info from www.thainationalparks.com/species/red-wattled-lapwing
"Red-wattled lapwings are large waders, about 35 cm long. The wings and back are light brown with a purple sheen, but head and chest and front part of neck are black. Prominently white patch runs between these two colours, from belly and tail, flanking the neck to the sides of crown. Short tail is tipped black. A red fleshy wattle in front of each eye, black-tipped red bill, and the long legs are yellow. In flight, prominent white wing bars formed by the white on the secondary coverts.
Males and females are similar in plumage but males have a 5% longer wing and tend to have a longer carpal spur. The length of the birds is 320-350mm, wing of 208-247mm with the nominate averaging 223mm, Sri Lanka 217mm. The Bill is 31-36mm and tarsus of 70-83mm. Tail length is 104-128mm.
It usually keeps in pairs or trios in well-watered open country, ploughed fields, grazing land, and margins and dry beds of tanks and puddles. They occasionally form large flocks, ranging from 26 to 200 birds. It is also found in forest clearings around rain-filled depressions. It runs about in short spurts and dips forward obliquely (with unflexed legs) to pick up food in a typical plover manner. They are said to feed at night being especially active around the full moon. Is uncannily and ceaselessly vigilant, day or night, and is the first to detect intrusions and raise an alarm, and was therefore considered a nuisance by hunters. Flight rather slow, with deliberate flaps, but capable of remarkable agility when defending nest or being hunted by a hawk.
Its striking appearance is supplemented by its noisy nature, with a loud and scolding did-he-do-it call, often uttered at night."
The last of the carefully written up notes into chosen Class sequence. Although carefully might be an overstatement perhaps. as there are amendments done many years ago in the writing up process.
The one gap is 1018 Western Buccaneer and that is only because I saved up for a holiday and went to Greece for a month in late 1973. Had I not been committed to that I would have been to Swindon much earlier than in 1974 by which stage 1018 had bitten the dust unfortunately.
Maybe I had seen it - one of several that went past at some point and the number was missed. I remember a slow moving train in Cornwall near the main road where it was heading for a set of trees which would obstruct the view. My Dad put his foot down to overtake it to no avail - the number and name slid behind the trees and we saw the paint blemishes on the rear cab where there was no identification. Ah well, such is life. I think it was near a quaintly named place called East Taphouse.
The sad thing is that there were a few that were seen for the first time derelict at Swindon.
Black to Plum Color Melt 🎶 Shaved Chevron Design Undercut : Nicole wanted to get rid of the bright blue and purple we were doing for a while. I used Schwarzkopf Igora Royal 6-88 and 9-98 to fill. I then color melted base Schwarzkopf Vibrance 1-1 into 4-99 on the ends. Then I shaved her...
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Carefully shot to conceal the real technical details, and I won't post large. But I just wanted to show off what an intense meeting I had with my new(est) boss, who took me on a tour of some powerset internals. What followed was a 2.25 hour epic tour of our background cluster stuff, complete with a candyland style map of the system.
I've thrown away lots of my old diaries - you never know who might get their hands on them. But I have kept a few notes on the good old days.
Steffi Graf.
Dedicata alla pianista Maria Laura
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg6dM1IERvs - Per Elisa - Ludwing van Beethoven
Leica M4 / KMZ Jupiter-3 50mm f1.5 (1951)
Ilford HP5+ @1600 ASA
Compard R09 One Shot (Rodinal) 1+50 25℃ 16min
EPSON GT-X980
One important aspect of Readernaut is the ability to create "notes" on a particular book. Notes can be anything from a review or character analysis to a quote or simple comment.
Designing the form and functionality for Notes has been challenging because it needs to be very flexible and adaptive to peoples habits and practices.
The Canon AE-1 can do shutter-priority auto exposure (hence the name). To activate it, you have to set your lens' aperture to "A".
I will try to remember that the next time I fiddle around with the aperture ring. Hopefully, that will be before I take a couple of pictures with the camera set to whatever was the last position of the ring before I forgot about it.
I'm curious how the handful of pictures I took that way will come out. Maybe I'm lucky, but I doubt it. A pity as the Kodak Portra 400 I loaded is way too expensive for fooling around.
The KOM League
Flash Report
For
June 27, 2020
This report begins and ends on a low note. It could be this issue never came close to a high one. But, that is the bane of writing about the past. Give this report a quick glance and determine if it should be given a proper burial or placed on a ventilator. .Click here for the report. www.flickr.com/photos/60428361@N07/50051181951/
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Homer Gene Cole—1948 Iola, Kansas Indians
PITTSBURG- Homer G. Cole, 94, of Pittsburg, passed away at 7:04 a.m. Friday, June 19, 2020 at Via Christi Hospital.-- www.legacy.com/obituaries/morningsun/obituary.aspx?n=home...
He was born September 25, 1925 at Jasper, Missouri, the son of Raymon Lafayette and Ina Louie (Hall) Cole. He graduated from Pittsburg High School in 1943. He started attending Kansas State Teachers College, now Pittsburg State University before being drafted into the U.S. Army Air Corp.
On November 28, 1948, he was united in marriage to Evelyn Marie Bennett at the First Baptist Church of Pittsburg. They were married 64 years. She preceded him in death on September 15, 2010.
Staff Sgt. Cole served with the 487th Bomb Group during World War II, flying 19 missions over Germany in his B-17 Flying Fortress. On April 10, 1945, his plane was nearly shot down, where flak went through his helmet and just nicked his skull. He and the other crew rigged a parachute out the back of the plane to stop it. Staff Sgt. Cole has a scarf which was made out of his parachute by an English woman. For his service, he earned the Good Conduct Medal, American Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal, Two Purple Hearts, Air Combat Medal, European-African-Middle East Campaign Medal and Air Medal with Three Oakleaf Clusters. One of his fondest memories was playing on the KOAM baseball team, where he played with the greats Mickey Mantle, Cloyd, Cletus and Ken Boyer and referring games with Don Gutteridge.
After returning home, he completed his college education. He played basketball at the university, and then moved to Goddard where he taught math and industrial arts, in addition to coaching basketball, football and baseball before moving back to Pittsburg to work for McNally's. In 1954 he became the first Parks and Recreation Director for Joplin, Missouri where he worked until 1960. He then managed the Rangeline Bowlorama bowling alley in Joplin, and then managed alleys at Shawnee and Okmulgee, Oklahoma. On January 1, 1966, he and his partner, Ted Hoffman took over Holiday Lanes in Pittsburg. After five years, he and his wife, Evelyn became sole owners of the bowling alley, operating it until they sold out in December 1984.
Homer served on the Pittsburg City Commission from 1987 to 1991, including a term as mayor. He served on 12 boards, including PSU, the Elks Lodge, Mt. Carmel Hospital Board, and was President of Class Limited in Columbus. He was also the driving force in getting the Homer Cole Community Center built. Many will remember him for being an avid Pittsburg State Gorillas fan, and bowler. He also enjoyed playing cards and dominos.
Membership was held in the First Baptist Church of Pittsburg, where he also served as treasurer; lifetime member of the Pittsburg American Legion and VFW.
Survivors include a son, Michael Cole and his wife, Lori of Pittsburg; two daughters, Cathy Ann Cole of the home and Cindy Bugni and her husband, Charles of Frontenac; five grandchildren, Adam Cole, Courtney (Wes) Payne, Jennifer (Ira) Horyna, Chad (Melissa) Bugni, and Shawn (Haley) Bugni; 13 great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents, wife, and 5 siblings, Charles Cole, James Cole, Geneva Roberts, Raymon Jr Cole, and Joanne Everett.
Services will be held at 1:30 PM Thursday (June 25) at the Brenner Mortuary with Pastor Rick Bartlett officiating. The eulogy will be given by Gene Bicknell. Burial will follow in the Garden of Memories Cemetery, where the US Army Air Corp will provide graveside military rites. The family will receive friends from 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM Thursday at the funeral home. The service will be live streamed on our website (brennermortuary.com) through Mr. Cole's obituary page. The family suggests memorials be given to the Homer and Evelyn Cole Scholarship at PSU for the Boys Basketball program. These may be left at or mailed to the Brenner Mortuary, 114, E. 4th St., Pittsburg, KS 66762. Condolences may also be left online at www. brennermortuary.com. Arrangements are under the direction of the Brenner Mortuary.
Ed comments:
This writer first became aware of Homer Cole during the summer of 1958 when playing in the Joplin Civic league. In his role as director of recreation in Joplin, MO he formed a baseball league for teenage boys with the support of the civic clubs in that city. He had many contacts and convinced many local former professional ballplayers to coach. Some but not all of those coaches were; Ferrell Anderson and Al Gerhaeuser who both made it to the major leagues and a local Joplin standout Terry Wilson who had starred at Joplin High School and had a brief minor league career. He later established a local nightclub and that was a “hangout” to all the big stars who ventured to Joplin to frequent Mickey Mantle’s Holiday Inn and play in celebrity golf tournament sponsored by Harold Youngman who attached Mantle’s name to it just as he had done with the inn.
As with all the other athletic endeavors this old writer attempted, in his early days, that career went nowhere even though Ferrell Anderson is the ONLY person to ever encourage me to the point that he surmised I could play minor league baseball. Too bad I didn’t hire him as an agent long before such things existed.
However, this story is not about either Ferrell Anderson or Yours truly so back to Homer Cole. When meeting Cole in 1958 I didn’t know that just ten years prior to that time he took a trip to Iola, Kansas where he spent 10 days on the roster. That can be verified by clicking here: www.legacy.com/obituaries/morningsun/obituary.aspx?n=home... The other thing of significance he did in 1948 was to get married which his obituary mentions.
This is a place to segue to that obituary. Time has a way of making memories into something they actually weren’t. First off, it was the KOM league not the KOAM league in which Cole played. However, anyone in Pittsburg, Kansas could be forgiven for that since the most powerful and listened to radio station in the area went by those call letters until finally trading them in for KKOW. Also, the television station in that town was seen in blurry images, 30 miles away in Carthage, using rabbit ears when these eyes first witnessed television. It was KOAM-TV then and probably still is.
Where I feel compelled to comment is in regard to all the fellows Cole mentioned playing against in the KOM league. Mickey Mantle and Cloyd Boyer were the only two of those mentioned who saw action in the league. Boyer was with Carthage for the last half-month of the 1946 season and Mantle was at Independence, Kansas in 1949. However, in 1948 Mantle was still with the Baxter Springs, Kansas Whiz Kids and Kenny Boyer was with the Alba, Missouri Aces. Each of those two guys was playing against each other in what was called “The Cardinal Junior League.” Cloyd Boyer spent the 1948 season with the Houston Buffaloes of the Texas league and had probably his best season of his career that year. As for Cletis Boyer he was an 11-year old hanging around the Alba Aces and attempting to get Coach Buford Cooper to let him play more.
For a fact Cole and Don Gutteridge, another Pittsburg resident and former big league player, coach and manager did referee a lot of high school basketball games during the off-season as did Cloyd Boyer. What was cited in the obituary regarding Cole playing against the Mantle and Boyer brothers pertained to the many pick-up games those fellows participated in at the close of the baseball season throughout the 1950’s. Most of those games were played anywhere there was a vacant field, in towns with less than a thousand residents. Thus, the attendance was basically limited to those playing.
Upon learning of Cole’s passing the obituary was sent along to Jack Morris who keeps track of that sort of thing for all the major baseball sources. This comment was attached. “I played for a team Homer oversaw in the Joplin Civic league in 1958. He had a trick pitch he learned during the war from Goose Tatum. It had to be seen to be understood. He would bring the pitch behind him slam the ball on his back and it would go toward the plate accurately and at a good speed.”
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Comments from a few of the readers this report reaches
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Had a nice surprise the other day, I had purchased your book, THE KOM LEAGUE REMEMBERED, on eBay and enjoyed it so much, I gave it to a friend shut in due to the COVID 19. Purchased another on eBay and when it arrived, pleased to find it was signed by the author, some guy named John Hall. Made my day. Randy Chloupek
The inscription reads, to the Stankas? Pretty sure that is the name, no matter, glad to have a signed book.
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So John: Who does that plaque at the entrance of the Carthage ballpark resemble? I'm impressed! I guess it's not in the same category as Stan Musial's statue outside the Cardinals ballpark, but it's still quite a tribute. I wonder if the annual edition of the Mobil Travel Guide for Missouri addresses this sight to see on Carthage, MO?
Keep up the good work, Leo Downey
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Willis Frank Carruth Jr.
www.seasidefuneral.com/tributes/Willis-Carruth
Each time a search has been done of former players, Carruth’s name was checked for I knew he was of an advanced age. Just a week a prior to his death a search was made. That is why I was surprised to learn of his passing from baseball necrologist, Jack Morris. Until his passing he was the third oldest living former KOM leaguer.
Carruth was an outfielder for the Bartlesville, Oklahoma Pirates in 1948 for less than a month. This is his Sporting News Player card. digital.la84.org/digital/collection/p17103coll3/id/14409/...
Obituary
Willis Frank “Bill” Carruth, age 97, passed away on June 14, 2020 in Allen Texas.
Bill was born in Bosqueville, TX under the birth name of Willis Monroe Moore to Bob and Eta Lee Moore. He was adopted around the age of three by James and Lula Carruth and his name was changed to Willis Frank Carruth at that time.
Bill joined the Army Air Corp in September of 1942. He held several jobs including flight line crew chief for the AT-10 twin engine aircraft and cook. He also played baseball and basketball with them. He was a World War II Vet.
After being honorably discharged, he went on to service Coca-Cola trucks, was a salesman for the Waco Fish Company, played semi-pro baseball for the Waco Dons, worked for General Dynamics in Fort Worth on a B-36 project and in July 1955 he went to work for Bell Helicopter. When he went to work at the Corpus Christi Army Depot, he was a military trainer, inspected helicopters and wrote their inspection guide called ACE – Aircraft Condition Evaluation. He retired from the civil service in Jan 1983 after 25 years of service.
Bill was an avid golfer, loved to fish and played numerous sports. He was a world traveler during his military career but mainly traveled in the states after he retired. He participated in numerous golf tournaments and won many trophies. Bill loved the Lord and would witness to everyone he would meet.
Bill is survived by his daughter: Debbie (Mark) Goodman; step-daughter: Michelle Patterson; son-in-law: Clay Haeger; grandchildren: Jeremy (Michelle) Goodman, Robin Jimenez, Tracie (Shannon) Davis, Tonya Porter, Cathy (Tom) White, Misty (Michael) Forst, Blake Johnston, Bailea (Tyler) Phillips, Jordan (Molli) Patterson and Hayden Patterson; great grandchildren: Bailee, Ella, Ava, Ian, Layla, Andrew, Emma, Connor, Rory, Raegan, Carson, Emily, John, Jamie, Jason and Dean; sister: Betty Hess and brother: James Carruth.
He was preceded in death by his first wife: Margie Lee Carruth; his second wife: Mary Elizabeth Carruth; his daughter: Vicki Lynn Haeger; his son Dennis Carruth; granddaughter: Shawndell Deyo; brothers: Jack Carruth, Audie Joe Moore and Wallace Moore.
The viewing and visitation will be held from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. on Friday June 19, 2020 at Seaside Funeral Home Chapel, 4357 Ocean Dr. Corpus Christi, TX 78412. A Funeral Service will be held at 2:00 p.m. that same day. Interment will follow at Seaside Memorial Park. The service will be available via livestream for those that are unable to attend in person.
A very great video of Carruth’s journey through life can be viewed by clicking here: Please avail yourself of the opportunity. www.seasidefuneral.com/tributes/Willis-Carruth
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George Robert Callahan Jr.
Sometimes a name jumps out at me regarding a person whose fate has been established but not much else is known. One such person was George Callahan who was on the Chanute, Kansas Athletics roster for 15 days in 1949.
If anyone is very curious, and has access to Ancestry.com, there is additional information regarding this gentleman that I chose not to include in this article.
Born June 29, 1930 along with twin brother Eugene in San Diego, CA
Died: June 24, 1985 in San Francisco –Age 54
Married September 22, 1951 in San Francisco
Worked for Guard Well Insurance Agency for undetermined number of years in San Francisco.
This is the Sporting News card for Callahan: digital.la84.org/digital/collection/p17103coll3/id/13081/...
Following is a link to Callahan’s photo as a member of the 1947 Lowell High School baseball team in San Francisco. Only those with ancestry.com can access it. This is provided as a service to those who wade out into the deep waters of minor league baseball research.
www.ancestry.com/interactive/1265/43134_b195611-00087/374...
www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/13368220/person/
Photo of George Callahan taken around 1982 when coaching a softball team. www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/tree/13368220/person/-809...
The last game in which Callahan pitched was in the second game of a doubleheader at Miami, OK on June 20 1949. Chanute lost both. He gave up six runs in 4 innings.
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Story found on the Internet regarding Mantle and a Hornsby
www.sportingnews.com/us/mlb/news/mickey-mantle-rogers-hor...
In reading that article it was noted that this writer was quoted. Thus, this note was shared with a few of my boyhood friends from Carthage. “This article is true, mostly. The ball that Mantle hit that Hornsby caught with his head was a fly ball to medium left centerfield. Two former players on the receiving end of this note were there. Bob Speake and Kenny Bennett are the final authorities on this matter unless you can get hold of Don Schmidt who was standing next to Hornsby when the ball arrived.”
An award winning and Arizona Hall of Fame writer shared this note. “Johnny: Over the years I have told people about this as a first-hand report. I think I was there, as you were, and I can see young Hornsby go down. But at 82, I struggle with such trivial things as fact and fiction, where I left my glasses, what day it is. -- Corky Simpson—Tucson, Ariz.
Readers of these reports for any length of time realize the mention of an insignificant person, place or thing can bring about a couple of weeks of material on that subject. So, readers are advised the rest of this back-and-forth might be as interesting as watching dew form.
Ed reply:
I wasn’t there. It was the second game of a Sunday doubleheader in August. I was probably at the evening services of the Nazarene Church where Ross Hayslip was preaching. But, Dr. McNew was there and tended to Hornsby who was more embarrassed than hurt according to what Don Schmidt has told me more than once.
Corky’s reply:
Johnny: Rev. Hayslip, as you may know, eventually found his way to Tucson and preached at two Nazarene churches that I know of. He may have died here, I can't remember. But he saw my name in the paper, contacted me and I went to the first Nazarene church he was affiliated with here and we had a nice visit. I was honored that he remembered me. Fine man; I always liked him. -- Corky
Ed reply:
Rev. Hayslip went on to California from there. He was a fine man but his oldest son, Jim, and I would get into a fight at the drop of a hat. Pat Patterson, another of our favorites spent most of the time separating us at Sunday School sporting events. Now Jim and all the rest of the family are gone.
Ross died June 8, 2001 in Tucson. He moved back there from Colorado Springs where he had been affiliated with the Bible college. He was 86 when he passed away. He was a big Cleveland Indians fan as he was from Wooster, Ohio. I remember his son's favorite player was Al Rosen.
Corky’s reply:
Johnny: Jimmy Hayslip played on the best Carthage High basketball team I ever saw -- him, Mike Catron, Jackie Simpson, Dale Staggs and David Kennell. Wow. They should have won the state championship. -- Corky
Another memory of the Mantle-Hornsby event.
A yet to be famous person was attending the games between Carthage and Independence on a Sunday afternoon in August of 1949. It was the third inning of the second game of a doubleheader when the sun was going down that the event happened. Merle Southern was an 11-year old at the time who later had a career as a geologist and even has a peak in Antarctica named in his honor. This was his recollection of that event.
“John - The game in question was one evening when Dad and I went out to see Hornsby's son play. His Dad Rogers was one of my Dad's favorite players. I was setting down the first base line behind the first base dugout. A player who I had never heard of came to bat. He hit a fairly deep fly ball that Hornsby went back for and should have caught the ball. The ball clearly hit him in the head. Before any of the Carthage players could retrieve the ball the batter had circled the bases for what was ruled a home run. Someone from the Cartage bench ran out to check on Hornsby who was still lying down. As I recall he finally got up and stayed in the game. To be honest we thought he was too embarrassed to get up too fast!! Either I read in the Carthage Press or finally heard who the batter was; some kid named Mickey Mantle. The story on Hornsby was that he had gotten into some problems and sent was down to D ball for punishment.”
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Quincy, Ill. comes to Columbia, Mo.
Small world. This morning a couple that just moved here from Quincy, Illinois stopped by on their morning walk to introduce themselves. I asked if they ever heard of Tommy Gott. They knew him well. I asked if they knew Tommy and Mickey Mantle were roommates at Joplin in 1950. They didn’t. So, I gave the new neighbor a “Mickey Mantle Before the Glory” book and told him Tommy was responsible for my writing it.
In discussing Tommy Gott my new neighbor related how good Gott got (pun intended) at softball. He recalled playing against Gott and how the team he was on never had a chance against the former minor league player and manager.
For those interested in history these are two Sporting News Index cards for Gott.
digital.la84.org/digital/collection/p17103coll3/id/73129/...
digital.la84.org/digital/collection/p17103coll3/id/34933/...
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Former Carthage Cub hurler loses a longtime friend.
In 1951 Walter Babcock pitched for the Carthage, Mo. Cubs and a couple of years later he was back in Missouri pitching for Uncle Sam at Ft. Leonard Wood, Missouri. Backing him up were the likes of Whitey Herzog, Jerry Lumpe, Dick Gray and a number of other big league ballplayers including Eddie Kasko. Babcock has stayed close to these guys or until death doeth them part.
Over the years Babcock has shared the KOM league writings with most of his Ft. Leonard Wood teammates and one year invited them to the KOM league reunion and some of them were able to attend. The following is the text of an e-mail shared with some of the readership upon learning of Kasko’s passing. “You all may already know about the death of former St. Louis Cardinal, Eddie Kasko. Walt Babcock, the former Carthage Cub just shared this. He and Kasko were teammates at Ft. Leonard Wood in 1954. Kasko was on the receiving end of these reports. One thing about St. Louis he didn’t like was Harry Caray. He had personal reasons for that. I couldn’t talk him out of it in attempting to rationalize what Caray had said on a broadcast.”
This is the note Babcock shared about Kasko.
“JOHN, I JUST GOT AN E-MAIL LETTING ME KNOW EDDIE KASKO DIED. I SURE HAD A LOT OF GOOD TIMES WITH ED AND HIS WIFE FOR A LIFE TIME.
HE LIVED IN RICHMOND , VA. AND I WORKED OUT OF BALTIMORE FOR 22 YEARS.
STARTING IN 1970 COVERING RICHMOND. WHEN BOSTON CAME TO BALTIMORE I WOULD MEET HIM AT HIS HOTEL GENERALLY WITH 10 OR MORE OF HIS FRIENDS
FROM RICHMOND. HE WOULD DRIVE ME AND MY WIFE TO THE GAMES. ONE TIME I ASKED HIM TO PICK ME UP IN THE HOTEL PARKING LOT SO I COULD GET SOMETHING. I HAD BORROWED MY NEIGHBOR'S ORIOLE CAP AND JACKET. ED PULLED UP TO MY CAR AND I GOT OUT WEARING THEM AND HE WOULDN'T LET ME IN HIS CAR TILL I TOOK THEM OFF.
WE PLAYED GOLF IN THE OFF SEASON AT HIS CLUB AND ALWAYS PLAYED SOME PRETTY COMPETITIVE GOLF. I HAVE ALWAYS E-MAILED HIM SINCE OUR PLAYING DAYS. HE HAD NEUROPATHY IN HIS LATER DAYS AND HIS WIFE HAD DIED, BUT HE GOT AROUND IN A MOTORIZED SCOOTER FOR MANY YEARS. I WILL REALLY MISS MY GOOD FRIEND. WALT”
bleacherreport.com/articles/2897594-former-red-sox-player...
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Some potpourri from the Sporting News Index cards.
Utilizing the Sporting News Index cards, along with old newspaper clippings, U. S. Baseball Questionnaires and the Baseball Guides about anything can be found about a former player if there is a determination to do so.
In the time remaining in this report a few are being shared. And, I stress the word “few.”
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Hank Brzycki—Iola Indians
digital.la84.org/digital/collection/p17103coll3/id/138884/
Brzyzcki died on his 71st birthday. He was born July 21, 1927 in Chicago, Ill and died on that date in 1998 in Beverly, Mass.
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Angelo LiPetri made the trip to Chanute, Kansas from his New York home after being signed by the New York Giants. He didn’t make the 1948 Class D team but later saw action in the major leagues. If you wish to know the team and year you’ll have to click on this site.
digital.la84.org/digital/collection/p17103coll3/id/153026...
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Roy Hawes of Shiloh, Illinois had a long minor league career that eventually saw him get a shot at the big leagues. One of his first stops was Chanute, Kansas where he failed to make that roster. To see his long career click here and find out what major league team hired him.
digital.la84.org/digital/collection/p17103coll3/id/80500/...
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An inquiry and response on a former Iola pitcher
For many years the question as what caused the death of a former Iola Indian pitcher had not been resolved. The following was sent to Jack Morris. “Fred McCollum signed with the Iola Indians out of Wyandotte High School in Kansas City, Kansas. He was born in Shawnee, Okla. November 24, 1931. He had an older brother Robert who pitched minor league ball in 1947-48.
He died May 11, 1957 and his obituary was in the Seminole, Oklahoma Producer on May 13. As he died long before I started this project all I knew about him was that he pitched for the Wheatley Drug Store Ban Johnson league team in Kansas City before going to Iola. Do you have an obituary for Fred Wayne McCollum?
digital.la84.org/digital/collection/p17103coll3/id/80500/...
This is the obituary shared by necrologist, Jack Morris.
Fred McCollum, who played for the Seminole Oilers a few years ago, died of leukemia Saturday night (May 11th , 1957) in a Kansas City hospital. McCollum, 26 years old played for the Oilers in 1952 or 1953. He was a nephew of Corrine Hall of Seminole. A member of the First Baptist Church of Kansas City, McCollum was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert McCollum of Kansas City former Seminole residents.”
At the time of his passing, McCollum was employed by the Great Lakes Pipeline of Kansas City, Mo. He was buried at Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens in Wyandotte, Kans.
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A middle name found for T. G. Reynolds
In looking at this card one might conclude that T. G. were initials for first and middle names digital.la84.org/digital/collection/p17103coll3/id/89764/...
Reynolds was born August 29, 1926 in Seneca, Missouri but moved to Joplin, Missouri by the time he was a teenager. He married Pauline Johnson on October 9, 1953 in my hometown of Carthage, Missouri. The first child of that union called me a number of years ago to verify that his father had played minor league baseball in the KOM league. As the record indicates T. G. had a week in professional baseball and upon rather extensive research it was found this past week that he had a middle name—Morehead. That was the maiden name of his mother.
Reynolds moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma and was living there on the day after the 4th of July when he passed away in 1996.
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Edwin Wilson and Ed Leslie Wilson
digital.la84.org/digital/collection/p17103coll3/id/160809...
You would go stark raving crazy in an attempt to find the Sporting News card for Ed Wilson who pitched at Miami and Iola in the KOM as well as other teams. The problem is that those researchers who have deciphered all the information included in the card information listed for Ed Leslie Wilson who played in the Western Association and Arkansas Missouri leagues. That is all spelled out in the citation given at the start of this article.
What the researchers died was list the player contract information for the Ed Leslie Wilson born in St. Louis, MO, in 1911 and then provided the published the career information for Edwin Wilson born in 1928.
Hang on this story is going somewhere. I knew Edwin Wilson who was born in Wichita, very well, and even followed his hearse from Topeka to the Ottawa, Kansas cemetery on July 1, 2002. He would have a difficult time understanding what has just been shared if he was still with us.
All of this confusion arose when I shared the Ed Leslie Wilson information with baseball researcher, Jerry Hogan, in Fayetteville, Arkansas. As the card indicates, Wilson committed suicide. After reading that information Hogan remarked that the Fayetteville newspaper didn’t mention the cause of Wilson’s death only that it was tragic.
Subsequent to sending that card information to Hogan it dawned on me that I had written about Ed Leslie Wilson’s death many years ago in the paper newsletter that was sent to the masses for many years. Hogan was apprised that if a copy of the old newsletter could be located the story about Wilson’s demise would be shared.
Well, after a half day paging through those old newsletters, which comprise nearly 2,000 pages, a new approach was sought and it was found as in United Press article that went around the world. That complete article is found in the middle of the page of the Wilmington, NC Star News for August 18, 1946. Click here. The headline is “Cardinal’s Scout Found Dead In Texas Hotel Room.”
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Conclusion:
After the atrociously bad newsletter from last time this old guy is still on probation. The only way to get off of it is if a few people send a note to the publisher and say this report was acceptable enough to give the old guy another chance.
This old guy has something to add. These reports are way too voluminous but there is always the chance that the one you are currently reading will be the last. So, always save the last one you receive until another one arrives. It will always serve as a source to show others how not to write about old-time baseball.
Oh by the way, a neighbor told me how the major league season was going to resume and under what rules. My comment is a statement not a question. “Why bother.”