by Charles Norman | Dec 24, 2022 | Baseball
Robbery in the Park and the Attack on Umpire Bailey The following is an excerpt from the in-progress biography of Jack Corbett entitled, The Book About Jack Corbett and a Lot of Other Stuff. The incident occurred in Columbia, South Carolina, on the afternoon of June...
by Charles Norman | Dec 28, 2021 | Baseball
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 Charles Norman | Oct 8, 2021 | Baseball
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 Charles Norman | Aug 19, 2021 | Family
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 Charles Norman | Aug 12, 2021 | Family
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...
