by Charles Norman | May 14, 2026 | Baseball, Wilson Matthews
Here Lies Wilson Matthews – 7 Uncivil Matters People who don’t know think it is easy to be a madam – just sit in a big chair and drink beer and take half the money the girls make, they think. But it’s not like that at all.– John Steinbeck, East of Eden...
by Charles Norman | May 13, 2026 | Baseball, Wilson Matthews
Here Lies Wilson Matthews – 8 Happy Hollow Meets the Maroon and White “Abdication! One third of the alphabet!” coldly quipped the King, with the trace of an accent. “The answer is no. I prefer the unknown quantity of exile.”– Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin Part...
by Charles Norman | May 12, 2026 | Baseball, Wilson Matthews
Here Lies Wilson Matthews – 9 The Duke The traveller is looked upon as a bird of passage, whose visit is short, and which the vanity of the visited wishes to make agreeable. All is show, all false, and all made up.– Benjamin Disraeli, The Young Duke Part...
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...
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...
