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Spring training arrives, and Wiggen is holding out due to a contract dispute. A new catcher, Piney Woods, is competing for Pearson's spot on the roster. Wiggen meets with the team's management. He agrees to sign but insists that he's tied together in a package with Pearson. Four months pass, and Pearson's condition is deteriorating.
On their first night there, Bruce burns his old baseball memorabilia to acknowledge the inevitable end of his life. The team knows nothing about Bruce's fate. At spring training, Dutch is preparing to release Bruce in favor of a hot young prospect, country boy Piney Woods. So management is amazed and confused when Henry ends his holdout and ...
The novel is the second in a series of four novels written by Harris that chronicles the career of baseball player Henry W. Wiggen. Bang the Drum Slowly was a sequel to The Southpaw (1953), with A Ticket for a Seamstitch (1957) and It Looked Like For Ever (1979), completing the tetralogy of baseball novels by Harris. [1]
The Lufkin Foresters were a minor league baseball team based in Lufkin, Texas that played in the East Texas League in 1946 and in the Lone Star League in 1947 and 1948. [1] [2] In 1950, the Lufkin Angels played a partial season as members of the six–team Class C level Gulf Coast League, before the team relocated to become the Leesville Angels ...
Dispatch.com readers voted for Hamilton Township's Josh Woods as the regular-season baseball player of the year.
Pineywoods is a Pre-K through twelfth grade charter school. Students in Angelina County, Texas and surrounding areas are open for enrollment. [2] The student teacher ratio is 1 teacher per 15.86 students, [3] and the graduation rate is 100%. [4] Starting in the 2023–2024 school year students will only attend 4 days per week [5] [6]
The Piney Woods School was founded in 1909 by Laurence C. Jones. [3] Jones added the Mississippi School of the Blind for Negroes in the early 1920s, and in 1929, with the arrival of Martha Louise Morrow Foxx serving as principal, the Mississippi Blind School for Negroes was founded at Piney Woods.
Laurence Clifton Jones (November 21, 1882 – July 13, 1975), [1] was the founder and long-time president of Piney Woods Country Life School in Rankin County, Mississippi. [2] A noted educational innovator, Jones spent his adult life supporting the educational advancement of rural African-American students in the segregated South .