Good morning, its Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021. Its late in the year to be reporting that the first game of the World Series has taken place and that the.
Visiting the Grave of a Long-Ago Cubs Pitcher By allyngibson on May 1, 2021, 6:36pm CDT +
At the end of 2019, the
York Sunday News here in York, Pennsylvania, ran a two-part essay that summarized the history of York County amateur baseball, drawing on an eight-part series originally published in the York newspapers in 1940. I was curious about the original articles I like obscure, local baseball history like that and last summer, when I was making use of a Newspapers.com trial, I found the original article series, used Google Drive to OCR the text, and assembled from that a private ebook. The last of the eight parts talks about local York County players who had success in the major leagues, like Lefty George and, relevant to Cubs fans, Cliff Heathcote (famous for being traded from the Cardinals to the Cubs between games of a doubleheader between the two teams). Last weekend, I noticed this line: