Stories, quotes and anecdotes from Appalachia. 1880s-1950s era.

Category: Baseball

Baseball’s First World Series Hero: ‘Deacon Phillippe’

Baseball pitcher Charles Louis (“Deacon”) Phillippe, of Rural Retreat VA, was drafted into the National League by Louisville in 1898.

Robert Moses “Lefty” Grove is one of only 24 major-league baseball pitchers to win 300 games or more. His lifetime winning percentage was .680

On April 2, 1931, world famous New York Yankees sluggers Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig were struck out by a 17 year old female pitcher.

In the summer of 1945, one white executive quietly, secretly, plotted an assault on baseball’s systematic practice of racial discrimination.

Earle Bryan Combs’ throwing arm seemed ordinary only because he shared the Yankee outfield with Bob Meusel and Babe Ruth.

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