This is the grave of Lloyd Waner. Born in 1906 in Harrah, Oklahoma, Waner grew up on a farm. It was hard work and the kids--Lloyd and Paul--didn't really have leisure time. What they had was playing a little baseball at sunset. Their father had...
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This is the grave of Christy Mathewson. Born in 1880 in Factoryville, Pennsylvania...ok wait a minute. Factoryville? Let's just say that was a naming of ambition rather than reality. The.
This is the grave of Red Faber. Born in rural Iowa, outside of the town of Cascade, in 1888, Urban "Red" Faber grew up in an upwardly mobile family. His.
This is the grave of Tommy Hanson. Born in 1986 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Hanson grew up in Redlands, California. He was a star high school baseball pitcher, though he didn't move to pitching full time until his junior year. He didn't get a ton of...
This is the grave of Candy Jim Taylor. Born in Anderson, South Carolina in 1884, James Taylor, better known as Candy Jim, played baseball. So did his brothers. This athletic.
This is the grave of Hank Aaron. Born in 1934 in Mobile, Alabama, Aaron grew up in the Black working class. His father was a shipyard welder, when he could.
User Mori Chan on Flickr (Original version)User Num(Crop and Remix), CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons The most important news in Major League Baseball right now is obviously the utter annihilation of those foul cheaters in Houston by the Seattle Mariners, all but insuring...
This is the grave of Minnie Miñoso. Born in Perico, Cuba, it's only possible that Miñoso was born in 1924 as it says here. Evidence from Cuba suggests 1923 or.
www.allproreels.com -- Washington Nationals vs Philadelphia Phillies, at Nats Park, Washington DC, May 13th, 2021 Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred is pushing a massive line of anti-union bullshit, arguing.
This is the grave of Pants Rowland. Born in 1878 in Platteville, Wisconsin, Clarence Rowland loved baseball from the time he was a child. He earned the nickname "Pants" because he would play in his father's overalls. He wasn't actually very good at baseball though....
This is the grave of Old Hoss Radbourne (often spelled without the "e" at the end, but I am keeping it for this post). Born in 1854 in Rochester, New.
This is the grave of Charles Comiskey. Born in 1859 in Chicago, Comiskey grew up in the early Illinois elite. His dad was a long time Irish-American city councilperson, though.