UNIVERSITY PARK — Willie Fordham, Jim Weedon and Dan Werner spent more than an hour before Sunday’s State College Spikes game against the Brooklyn Cyclones describing the conditions they endured to play baseball.
Too bad the players lounging on the leather furniture, munching on fresh fruit and watching television didn’t stop by Porter Gardens for a […]
Bill Pinkney also played for the New York Blue Sox of the Negro Baseball Leagues in the 1940’s and early 1950’s.
Rhythm and blues singer Bill Pinkney, the last surviving member of the original lineup of The Drifters, was found dead in his hotel room hours before he was due to perform in a July 4 […]
Silas is second from the right in the second row. In 2006, he was 111 years old. He never played in the Major Leagues because of the Color Line. He was born in 1895.
He’s likely the oldest living professional baseball player from either the Majors of the Negro Leagues.
Wayne Stivers, who spearheaded the fact-finding committee that […]
“Dr. May, gentlemen, — ladies and gentlemen. My plane doesn’t leave until tomorrow at 10:35 A.M. and I haven’t a thing to do between now and then but to talk if I get the chance, — and I feel like talking.
“I asked Mr. Lawson and several others today about my time limit, and I think […]
William Hudson “Red” Lindsay Age 101. He was born Saturday, April 15, 1905.
Emilio “Millito” Navarro, of baseball’s Negro League is next. He was born in Patillas, Puerto Rico, and today lives in Ponce, Puerto Rico. He was born 09-26-1905. In 1928 & 29 he played in infield at both 2b and 3b with the Cuban […]