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...
by Charles Norman | Dec 23, 2023 | Baseball
Anderson Once more baseball is here. In every city and hamlet in the land eager “fans” can hardly wait for the results of the day’s games. On every vacant lot in the United States future baseball stars are quarreling over the weighty decisions of a young umpire. With...
by Charles Norman | Dec 22, 2023 | Baseball
Cap Anson and His Great Bankruptcy-Inducing Semi-Pro Ballpark What I may conclude to do in the future it is hard to say, and if I return again to my first love, baseball, it will not be as a player, but whatever I may be or whatever I may do I shall still strive to...
