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 junction" within a "hot baked autumnal land, rolling piedmont...
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 League. A good infielder who was outmatched by Class...
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 11, 1909, following a minor league baseball game...
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 quintet disposed of and their new places of abode are: Pitcher...
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, who is a Closter, N.J., lad, yesterday signed a two-year contract with...
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 the Bureau of Indian Affairs and...
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 white...
Seven Songs for a More Colorful Tuesday
In the opening moments of my college crystallography class, an ancient professor named Kaupp stood before us and intoned: Goethe said, 'Symmetry is rhythm standing still.' After this promising opening, Herr Professor proceeded to disabuse me of any notion that the...
Camilo A Secas – Un Querer del Bueno
Then that same afternoon it was Florentino Ariza who saw the face of death when he received an envelope containing a strip of paper, torn from the margin of a school notebook, on which a one-line answer was written in pencil: 'Very well, I will marry you if you...
J.M. Baule – Compositor, letrista, adaptador de canciones
It's true that no translation is identical to the original. But no reading of a poem is identical to any other, even when read by the same person... The poem must move from reader to reader, reading to reading, in perpetual transformation. -- Eliot Weinberger, Oranges...
Featured Songs
Contact Reverb Raccoon
 |
 |
 |
 |