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0745-4856. OCLC number. 9227552. Website. commercialappeal.com. The Commercial Appeal (also known as the Memphis Commercial Appeal) is a daily newspaper of Memphis, Tennessee, and its surrounding metropolitan area. It is owned by the Gannett Company; its former owner, the E. W. Scripps Company, also owned the former afternoon paper, the Memphis ...
The first mention of the league was in March 1886 when the following ad ran in several major Southern newspapers: “A call has been issued for the captains of all colored base ball clubs of Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, Alabama, and Tennessee that have a fair record and desire to enter the Southern League of Colored Base Ballists to send name and address to The Manager of the Southern ...
Tim McCarver – Major League Baseball player and Ford C. Frick Award winner for New York Mets and Fox Sports [8] [14] Shaun Micheel – professional golfer [15] [16] Cary Middlecoff – dentist and professional golfer [16] Anthony Miller – NFL wide receiver; Lawrence "Boo" Mitchell – musician; Richard Mulrooney – professional soccer ...
Jake Curtis fielded the ground ball after a single hop, then made a 360-turn and fired the ball to first base. The throw made it in time, sealing an 11-10 win for Memphis baseball in the season ...
Tri-State Defender Board of Directors. The Tri-State Defender is a weekly African-American newspaper serving Memphis, Tennessee, and the nearby areas of Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee. [2] It bills itself as "The Mid-South's Best Alternative Newspaper". The Defender was founded in 1951 by John H. Sengstacke, owner of the Chicago Defender.
Sports in Memphis, Tennessee are supported in the city by Memphis Park Services, which offers a wide range of public facilities, including 17 swimming pools, 8 public golf courses, 48 athletic fields hosting a range of 510 youth and 269 adult teams, 130 basketball courts (101 outdoor and 29 indoor), 7 tennis centers and a soccer complex. [1]
Conference tournament champions. Metro: 1976, 1978. Memphis Tigers baseball is the varsity intercollegiate team representing the University of Memphis in the sport of college baseball at the Division I level of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). [2] The team plays its home games at FedExPark on campus in Memphis, Tennessee.
The Memphis Chicks were a Minor League Baseball team that played in the Southern League from 1978 to 1997. They were located in Memphis, Tennessee, and played their home games at Tim McCarver Stadium. They served as a farm club for four Major League Baseball teams: the Montreal Expos (1978–1983), Kansas City Royals (1984–1994), San Diego ...