In 1915, Herb Pennock, who during the baseball season had moved from the Philadelphia Athletics, American League, to the Boston Red Sox, American League, visited Millersburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. From […]
From the Shamokin News Dispatch, January 6, 1950: FORMER RESIDENT OF SHAMOKIN DIES Garfield Boyd, former Shamokin resident and widely known as a baseball pitcher when he was a young […]
William Richard “Billy” Cox was born August 29, 1919, in Newport, Perry County, Pennsylvania, and died March 30, 1978, in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. He had a major league baseball […]
A 1992 photograph of the Pritz Girls’ Softball Team (ages 12-15). The photo appeared in the “Looking Back” feature of the Pottsville Republican & Herald, April 15, 2018. Identified are: […]
For information on the professional baseball career of William H. Bonawitz, we are left with a few local newspaper references, which mainly state that he was signed by the St. […]
A photograph from around 1915 of a cock fight in the Tower City area, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. This brief story (and photo above) comes from the Centennial History of Tower […]
A colorized black & white photograph of the baseball team of Hegins Township High School, Hegins Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. None of the individuals in the photo are identified. _______________________________________ […]
The following promotional material is from the web site of the Moon Lake Association, operators of what was formerly called Buery’s Grove. The recreational area is located between Weishample, Lavelle […]