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Harold Seymour (June 10, 1910 – September 26, 1992) was an American baseball historian and academic who is best known as the co-author of the baseball history trilogy: Baseball: The Early Years, Baseball: The Golden Age, Baseball: The People's Game. Though Seymour was initially credited as the sole author of the highly acclaimed trilogy, his ...
The book series' origins came from Harold Seymour's 1956 Ph.D. dissertation which was entitled The Rise of Major League Baseball to 1891. Oxford University Press approached him to expand the dissertation into a book which became the first of three volumns. [1] Working alongside Seymour was his wife Dorothy. Seymour found that his wife's work ...
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The club spent the first five-plus weeks of the 1885 season on the road, [3] and the park was finally opened on June 6 with a victory over the St. Louis Maroons, late of the Union Association. Despite being "wanderers" early in the season, the powerful Chicago club, under player-manager Cap Anson, came home with an 18–6 record. They would ...
Born in Chicago [3] Josephine D'Angelo: Nov 23, 1924: Aug 18, 2013: All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player Born in Chicago [citation needed] Irene DeLaby: Aug 12, 1922: Oct 6, 2012: All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player Born in Chicago [4] Dave Dombrowski: Jul 27, 1956: baseball executive Born in Chicago ...
Bloom High School is a public school in Chicago Heights, Illinois.It is part of Bloom Township High School District 206.. The school was founded in 1900. A second Chicago Heights high school, Bloom Trail, was established in 1976 to offset overcrowding. [4]
Frank "Frankie" LaPorte (October 7, 1901 – October 30, 1972) was an Italian–American racketeer in the Chicago Outfit. [1] He was the Chicago Heights caporegime during the early 20th century. His closest associates in bootlegging included Ross Prio, Louis Campagna and onetime Outfit boss, Al Capone. [2]