Category: Books
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Happy Birthday to Steel Arm Tyler – Evansville’s Major League record holder
His nine victories with the Memphis Red Sox in 1925 are the most by a 17 year-old pitcher in Major League baseball history. https://www.seamheads.com/NegroLgs/player.php?playerID=tyler01ste Born in Evansville in 1907, he began his professional pitching career at the young age of 15. William “Steel Arm” Tyler was considered the greatest black pitcher in baseball during his…
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Black Ball in Evansville: Diamonds in the Shadows 1900-1960s.
Now Available. Don’t Miss It. While researching my first baseball in Evansville book I knew I had to write another on the subject. I urge baseball lovers to step up to the plate for another taste of baseball in the Pocket City from Evansville’s own M.T. Publishing Company. This topic is one I couldn’t wait…