“People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.” –Baseball Hall of Famer Rogers Hornsby Rogers Hornsby was born in 1896. He started playing semi-pro ball in his early teens and in 1915, at age 19, made his Major League debut with the St. Louis Cardinals. Before that, according to hometownhandlebar.com, when Hornsby was 9 years old he was the leader of a baseball team that traveled by streetcar in Fort Worth, Texas to challenge teams with older players. “I can’t remember […]
“People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.” –Baseball Hall of Famer Rogers Hornsby Rogers Hornsby was born in 1896. He started playing semi-pro ball in his early teens and in 1915, at age 19, made […]