by Charles Norman | Jan 15, 2023 | Baseball
Shoeless Miller, Greensboro’s Green Recruit Frank Doyle, manager of the Greensboro Patriots, had a new recruit. His name was Miller and somebody had dug him up down in South Carolina. A couple of weeks before, pitching for a team in Greer, he’d struck out 13 of...
by Charles Norman | Jan 4, 2023 | Baseball
Spartanburg’s Unique Carolina Association Ballpark Spartanburg, South Carolina, is sited on the Piedmont Plateau between the more crowded civilizations of Charlotte and Greenville. Thomas Wolfe, in Look Homeward, Angel, described Spartanburg as a “sleepy...
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 | 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,...
