by Charles Norman | May 20, 2026 | Baseball, Wilson Matthews
Here Lies Wilson Matthews – 1 Who Was W.M. Matthews? But he wanted to get in. He wanted to be urbane and careless. He wanted to wear well-cut clothes. He wanted to be a gentleman.– Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel Part 1Who Was W.M. Matthews? Mississippi...
by Charles Norman | May 19, 2026 | Baseball, Wilson Matthews
Here Lies Wilson Matthews – 2 Who Was Blanche Dumont? Here’s what I want. I notice you changed your name. I want you to keep your new name. I guess you made up someplace you came from – well, that’s where you came from… You figure you died and now you’re...
by Charles Norman | May 18, 2026 | Baseball, Wilson Matthews
Here Lies Wilson Matthews – 3 Guy Town He was surrounded by a world that was both beautiful and terrifying, a land of secrets and shadows, where the line between civilization and savagery was thin and easily crossed–Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim Part 3Guy Town...
by Charles Norman | May 17, 2026 | Baseball, Wilson Matthews
Here Lies Wilson Matthews – 4 Spaced Flashes In probing my childhood (which is the next best to probing one’s eternity) I see the awakening of consciousness as a series of spaced flashes, with the intervals between them gradually diminishing until bright blocks...
by Charles Norman | May 16, 2026 | Baseball, Wilson Matthews
Here Lies Wilson Matthews – 5 The Austin Athletics of 1893 In this part of the story there are living ghosts as characters, and the story doesn’t come out quite the way either the ghosts or non-ghosts expected. — Norman MacLean, Young Men and Fire Part 5...
by Charles Norman | Oct 15, 2025 | Baseball
Requiem for a Minor League Baseball Season On Friday, September 2, the Beaumont Millionaires of the Class C South Texas League closed out their 1904 season with an 8-5 win over the Houston Wanderers, known as the Mud Cats, a team that had gone belly-up nearly a decade...
