by Reverb Raccoon | Jun 11, 2022 | Features
Fortune’s Wheel – 1911 The following is an excerpt from a biography of Jack Corbett tentatively titled Jack Corbett — From the Grandstand. — Having entrusted yourself to Fortune’s dominion, you must conform to your mistress’s ways....
by Reverb Raccoon | Dec 28, 2021 | Features
The Semi-Pro: The Baseball Life of Walter Ancker (Chapter Two) Chapter 1:The Kid Flinger (1915) Chapter 2:Look Homeward, Angel (1916) —- The names of five students in the Connie Mack School of Baseball Knowledge were erased from the rolls of the Athletics. The...
by Reverb Raccoon | Oct 8, 2021 | Features
The Semi-Pro: The Baseball Life of Walter Ancker (Chapter One) Chapter 1:The Kid Flinger Walter Ancker, the star pitcher of the Tenafly, N.J., team of the North Jersey league, is the latest kid flinger to be caught in Cornelius McGillicuddy’s dragnet. Ancker,...
by Reverb Raccoon | Aug 19, 2021 | Features
Aunt Edith’s House The old woman we called Granny was my great grandmother, and Aunt Edith was her oldest child. Edith was born in Minnesota in 1894, probably near Lower Red Lake or Leech Lake. Granny’s husband, Dr. George Davidson, was a physician with...
by Reverb Raccoon | Aug 12, 2021 | Features
Granny The old woman we called Granny was my mother’s mother’s mother, my mom’s grandmother and my great grandmother. Granny was born in Giles County, Tennessee, in 1872. She was 91 years old when I entered the first grade and died just five months shy of 100. She had...
