by Charles Norman | Mar 17, 2024 | Baseball
Trials of a Minor League Umpire in 1909 Are you blind? Where do you think you are? In a cow-pasture?– Thomas Wolfe, A Portrait of Bascom Hawke The cash-poor lower leagues of the South assigned a single umpire to each game. Most worked behind the plate until a...
by Charles Norman | Feb 10, 2024 | Baseball
Charles Durmeyer, the Cotton States Baby Charles Philip Durmeyer, Jr. was born in New Orleans on August 29, 1889. His father, Charles Durmeyer, Sr., was a butcher with a few seasons of minor league ball to his credit. Charles Sr. gave up the professional game when his...
by Charles Norman | Jan 31, 2024 | Baseball
The South And is there anything that can tell more about an American summer than, say, the smell of the wooden bleachers in a small-town baseball park, that resinous, sultry, and exciting smell of old dry wood.– Thomas Wolfe, letter to Arthur Mann, 1938 Captain W.T....
by Charles Norman | Dec 23, 2023 | Baseball
The Book About Jack Corbett and a Lot of Other Stuff – Part 1 Table of Contents (click chapter title to view post) ForewordThe Name on the Base The Jack Corbett Hollywood Base appears today on every Major League Baseball diamond. Does a player ever look down at...
by Charles Norman | Dec 23, 2023 | Baseball
The Name on the Base Jack Corbett’s best friend is Jack Corbett; his ideal, Jack Corbett; his criterion, Jack Corbett; and his hero, Jack Corbett.– Winston-Salem Twin-City Daily Sentinel, March 11, 1916 It has been said that we must judge a man by the enemies he...
