This is the grave of Waite Hoyt. Born in 1899 in Brooklyn, Hoyt was such a great high school pitching prospect that Giants manager John McGraw signed him to a contract in 1914, when Hoyt was only 15 years old. But it didn't go very...
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This is the grave of Buck O'Neil. Born in 1911 in Carabelle, Florida, O'Neil grew up in Sarasota. His father ran a pool hall, which made him pretty middle class.
This is the grave of Powel Crosley. Born in 1886 in Cincinnati, Crosley grew up in a well-off suburban household. He was one in a long line of American tinkerers.
This is the grave of Billy Meyer. Born in 1892 or 1893 (dates differ here) in Knoxville, Tennessee, Meyer had the great passion of baseball. He grew up with a German immigrant father who operated a brewery in that city. Meyer didn't want to follow...
Roger Angell has died. He has a very strong claim to be the greatest baseball writer in history. I loved his late life writing in The New Yorker so much..
This is the grave of Harry Kalas. Born in 1936 in Napierville, Illinois, Kalas had something an interesting background. He was Greek-American, but his father was a Methodist minister. Can't.
This is the grave of Ray Chapman. Born in Beaver Dam, Kentucky in 1891, Chapman was an outstanding baseball player and so became a star in Herrin, Illinois, where his family moved when he was a child. He was signed by the Cleveland Indians and...
This is the grave of Smokey Joe Williams. Born in 1886 in Seguin, Texas, Williams was half Black and half Comanche. Such relationships were quite common in this era. Williams.
This is the grave of Earle Combs. Born in 1899 in Pebworth, Kentucky, Combs was a huge baseball fan from the time he was a small child. His family was.
The world is uniting against a set of monsters declaring war on innocent people. That's right, the baseball owners who are destroying the game in order to tank and make tons of profits while doing so. What's interesting about this labor stoppage is that there...
This is the grave of Wee Willie Keeler. Born in Brooklyn in 1872, William Henry O'Kelleher, Jr. grew up in the New York working class of the Gilded Age. His.
This is the grave of Satchel Paige. Born in 1906 in Mobile, Alabama, Leroy Paige grew up in the Black working class of the early twentieth South. His parents did.