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By NANCY TIMMINS (This is the first in a series of articles in The Herald on what baseball was like in tne early part of the century).Famous names in baseball were once commonly heard arour.d the Tri-County area when big league players came to play on the area teams after their regular season Immortal Babe Ruth played around Lima, as did Lou Gehrig One of the “great old men of baseball,” Satchel Rage, who just retired last year, played in Lima Others well remembered by local players of the time are George I hie and Steve O'Neill of the Cleveland Indians.Red Hargrave, Bill Waums gans. Fverett Scott, Ralph Miller, Rat McNulty and Burly Horn are other well rememPick A Plan25c A Week And Up1966Christmas Club0Now Openbe wuc COMMERCIAL ua9S' ’■ ' +Qy COM Ml Rim HANK ) */ i IJMJV' WHfH /snDEIPHOS/OHIObered namesV hen Guy Tilton retired Del-phos resident, managed the Delphos team, they played against a team which used a pitchci named Mullin of the Detroit Tigers. Mullin threw the emery ball, t’sing cinders from the parking lot, he would cut the cover of the ball. This gave the ball the same characters ties as the infamous * spitba 11 it would just reach the batter and then drop.• I'd say the big leagues are m a pretty bad state if you can't (ome down here and Ixuit a bunch of small town punks with out using tricks,” Tilton remembers saving as he personal ly threw the ball out of the parkLee Grady, manager of the Delphos team in 1916, remem hers pitcher. Bill Steen of Cleveland. The Little World Series between Lima and Del plios which Grady started two years before, was about to be gin•'Lima was betting pretty heavily on a victory for them,’ said Mr Grady, “but after they learned we had Bill Steen there wasn’t much.”He remembers when Steen would arrive in town about sup pertime. He’d just walk around town for a while, and soon half the town would be following him.Big leaguers were paid any where from Sto to $75 per postseason game in the twenties National league players went to Lima, and American League toDelphosThe big league players were the attractions which drew crowds as big as 3,000 to the Clay St field in Delphos during the Little World Series.People didn't have to travel hundred of miles and go to astadium to see their favorite players All they had to do w is to drive the car and park it along ( lay St sit on top and watch a Delphi- Lana gameEven earlier, in the late lltoo's Delphos hod . ball bam with major league players. Especially famous were Zane Grey, the famous writer of Westerns, and his brother. Roman. Other names on the 1392-93 Delphos team both local and big league were Kid Feai Burt Jone. Cap Tanner, Enoch Summers, Herman .Jettingci Ben Wil n, Oscar Eysenbach Geo ge Kihm and manager Frank Wulfhorst, father of the present mayor.(Next Saturday read about the games player! in tin Twenties at the Clay St. field).SITTING ON SANTA S LAP at Santa s sheltei on M.nn St., is Julie Ann Edwards, daughter of Mr. and Mis Keith Ed-w a i ri 5.
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Delphos Herald
Delphos, Ohio, US
Sat, Nov 27, 1965
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Bob E.
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