In 1930 the Great Depression threatened the game baseball as a moneymaking business. After the great stock market crash thousands of Americans found themselves unemployed. At this time 1 out of every 4 were unemployed wandering from town to town setting up shantytowns by railroads and even in central park. Baseball suffered, as many could ...
When someone thinks of Alabama they probably don’t think about baseball. In fact, Alabama is probably thought of as a state with very few famous people at all. Even if you were to tell someone that Alabama was the home of some great athletes you’d probably think of football before baseball. So some people might ...
With all the intense record keeping done in professional baseball, I always find it saddening that better, if not more accurate records were never kept in the Negro Leagues. In a lot of instances, great players were touted not so much by statistics but by legends propounded by their peers and fellow teammates. Had better ...
We all know the famous baseball quotes like “Let’s play two” (Ernie Banks) and “It ain’t over ’til it’s over” (Yogi Berra). However, baseball has given us countless other great quotes you may not have heard before. Here is a sample. “I like my players to be married and in debt. That’s the way you ...
Birmingham, Alabama, located near deposits of iron ore, coal, and limestone – the raw materials used in steelmaking – became the South’s leading industrial city in the late 1800s. In 1909, A.H. Woodward, the twentyish CEO of the Woodward Iron Company, purchased the Southern Association’s Birmingham Coal Barons. Their home grounds was a place named ...
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