Category: Minor League
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Fred Kovner – From Bosse Field to the Orchestra Pit
Fred Kovner’s future was bright when he graduated from Old Dominion University in the Spring of 1965. He set virtually every batting record at the college and was an exceptional centerfielder. His 1964 team won the NCAA College Division East Regional at historic Yankee Stadium and Fred was named All American in his final two…
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Walter Dilbeck, Evansville Baseball and Veterans Day
Although the title of my first book prominently calls out a “Global Disaster”, referring to Dilbeck’s attempt to form a third Major League, this man was really a hero in many ways. I may have been a little harsh in my book’s title, but any objective observer would say things did not go well in…
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The Continuing Story of Wee Willie
My second book has gone to print, so I’m back with more of what didn’t make my first book (see Books section). I devoted a short piece in my first book to this young phenom, who pitched a no-hitter for the Evansville Hoosiers at the age of 15 in storied old League Park on Louisiana…
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Cotton – Fame by a Few Inches
The NCAA Division I Basketball Championship is over. So, this will be my final entry about Evansville baseball and prominent college basketball players. Charles Francis “Cotton” Nash was a Kentucky basketball legend along the lines of Corky Withrow, but unlike Corky he plied his college hoops trade at the summit. Like former Evansville Brave Ralph…
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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…
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Corky – The Long Road
Another in the winter series of basketball stars who played baseball in Evansville. This one is a little longer because there’s a lot to tell. As the 1956 season was nearing an end, a sports story started with a single Evansville player at bat. Evansville’s professional baseball teams had a history of spawning stories from…
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Ralph Beard – The Last At Bat
Another in a series of basketball stars who took to the diamond in Evansville. After St. Louis University won the 1948 NIT at Madison Square Garden, Ralph Beard and the Adolph Rupp-led Kentucky Wildcats captured the NCAA Championship at the same venue. Later that summer Beard added an Olympic Gold Medal at the 1948 London…