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SALISBURY — The 1955 Salisbury American Legion team changed baseball in Rowan County forever. While the 1954 Salisbury team was stout, 21-6 and Area III champs, when the 1955 season started, Legion ...
PENSACOLA, Fla. (WKRG) — The City of Pensacola honored a monumental day in history on Thursday with a dedication to the Pensacola Jaycees 1955 Little League Baseball Team. The team was the first ...
Known as "Feather" Jim Sprankle due to his artwork, he played baseball in the minors and was called up by the Dodgers for the ...
Bufe C. Morrison's trophy room is one of El Paso's great treasure collections, a repository for 5,605 sports trophies, medals, plaques and awards he and his wife Mary have won in long lives competing ...
SYNOPSIS: In 1955, when racial segregation defined the South, two groups of twelve-year-old boys stepped onto a baseball field in a non-violent act of cultural defiance that would change the course of ...
Fortune was in the cards for a bookbinder from Maryland on Saturday night. Chris Rothe paid $500 to take a random spot in a drawing for an unopened, 20-card cello pack of 1955 Bowman baseball cards at ...
As the 2023 Wake Forest baseball team prepares to compete in the College World Series, the 1955 team is looking back to their trip to Omaha, when they came home victorious.It’s something players ...
Milwaukee enjoyed a honeymoon with baseball and the Milwaukee Braves when the All Star Game came to town for the first time in 1955. Read about it in the second All Star edition of The Brew Crew ...
From 1948 until his untimely death in 2007 Charlie Young, a Texas accountant, amassed hundreds of thousands of baseball cards, many fresh from bubble gum packs he bought as a boy. No one outside his ...
Brian Baldea, University of Chicago associate director of athletics and former head baseball coach, passed away Dec. 5 at the age of 62. Baldea was in his 28th year serving within UChicago Athletics & ...