This is the grave of George Wright and his son Beals Wright. Born in 1847 in Yonkers, New York, George Wright grew up in the world of cricket. His father was a big purveyor of that sport in America and ran a club in Hoboken....
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This is the grave of Rube Foster. Born in 1879 in Calvert, Texas, Andrew Foster grew up the son of an AME minister. But he was much more interested in.
I am not saying Vincent was a saint as baseball commissioner, but Vincent absolutely loved the game of baseball and wanted to see it grow and the owners fired him.
This is the grave of Steve Brodie. Born in 1869 in Warrenton, Virginia, Brodie mostly grew up in Roanoke. His father was an actor when he could get a work, and a tailor otherwise. The "S" in Brodie's name is Scott, not Steve, but his...
I am trying to swallow my anger at the single idiot who did not put Ichiro on their Hall of Fame ballot to celebrate the fact that Ichiro is now.
This is the grave of William Hulbert. Born in Burlington Flats, New York in 1832, Hulbert grew up in Chicago. His family moved to the new city on Lake Michigan.
This is the grave of Jerry McMorris. Born in Rock Island, Illinois in 1940, McMorris grew up in the trucking world. His dad owned a small trucking company and McMorris decided to start his own when he was an adult. This became Westway Motor Freight....
This is the grave of Jimmy Piersall. Born in 1929 in Waterbury, Connecticut, Piersall grew up in that town and became a high school baseball star. In 1948, the Boston.
Congrats to Dave Parker and Dick Allen for being elected by the Veterans Committee Hall of Fame. Parker is the classic Veterans Committee guy, in that he was a very.
This is the grave of Ty Cobb. Born in 1886 in Narrows, Georgia, Cobb grew up in very rural and poor Georgia, but he wasn't so bad off himself. In fact, his dad was a state senator for a time. He grew up mostly in...
This is the grave of Harmon Killebrew. Born in 1936 in Payette, Idaho, Killebrew up the son of the local sheriff, who also painted for extra money. His father was.
This is the grave of Kevin Hickey. Born in 1956 in Chicago, Hickey grew up on the south side. He was a good but not great athlete and a terrible.