by Charles Norman | Dec 30, 2022 | Baseball
The Glorious Life of a Class D Ballplayer in 1909 Excerpts from the in-progress biography of Jack Corbett entitled The Book About Jack Corbett and a Lot of Other Stuff. Corbett began the 1909 season playing for the Charleston Sea Gulls of the Class C South Atlantic...
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 | Oct 31, 2022 | Baseball
The Book About Jack Corbett and a Lot of Other Stuff – Part 1 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… It has been said that we must judge a man by...
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 | Oct 21, 2019 | Baseball
Stories Hidden in a Baseball Box Score I never knew my father’s father. He was a lineman for the county, and got himself fried long before I arrived. No one wanted to talk about him. I know him best through a paper bag full of newspaper clippings that he cut from the...
