Wichita Writer Continues Look at Baseball's Hidden Industry
The article surveys players from multiple teams who balance professional baseball with industrial jobs. It notes workers from Bona Allen in Buford, Lisbon Worumbo Mills, Standard Oil Louisiana, Enid Bason, Eason plants, and Curtis Aircraft, detailing how clubs sponsor salaries and mobilize communities. It highlights alumni and rising talents connected to major leagues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Hayes
Barrington
Hayes
Roanoke Rapids
Jim Whatley
Brooklyn Dodgers
Phil Sarboe
Lewiston
Idaho
Green Bay Packers
Vic Bradford
Alabama A
Sy Moore
Buford
Bona Allen
Indiana
Bona Allen Company
Standard Oil Company of Louisiana
Baton Rouge
Lisbon Worumbo Mills
Maine
Wichita
Buford Bona Allens
National semi pro tourney winds down in Wichita
Scranton academy boy Opie Pace and Roanoke Rapids stars Bill Roberson Claude Gilchrist George Nethercutt headline a load of players in the national tournament finale at Wichita. Players praise the city as a swell town while other notes report Mr and Mrs B H Moore returning to New York after two months visiting relatives in Wichita.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willingham
Gene Ledford
Crescent
Oklahoma
Eason
Danny Rich
Buffalo Aircrafts
Buffalo
Curtis Airplane Company
Lynchburg
Craddock-Terry Shoe Company
Kenny Crawley
Lil Stoner
Detroit Tigers
Cy Moore
Philadelphia Phillies
Steve Slayton
Boston Red Sox
Byron Speece
Washington Senators
New York-Penn State
South Atlantic
International
Ben Cardoni
Scranton
Penn
Lisbon Falls
Opie Pace
Roanoke Rapids
Bill Roberson
Claude Gilchrist
Enid
George Nethercutt
Wichita
B. H. Moore
New York
G. C. Crane
J. B. Robbins
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Johnny Pesky
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Hal Chalmers
Nichols College
Dudley
Mass
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Orioles
North Carolina
Alabama
Kilby
Buford ‘Company
Gerald McQuaig
Bona Allen Shoes
Mercer College
McQuaig
Andy Johnson
Midwest
Gene Nix
Enid Bason Company
Nick Urban
Herb Scheffler
Dewey Bondurant
Urban
John Clowers
Hugh
T. E Epps Agency
Littleton, N. C
Connecticut Mutual Life Ins. Co
Hartford, Conn
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Hamilton
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W. Mulberry St
Goldsboro
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Jefferson St
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Washington Ave
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W. E. Woodruff
Halifax
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Halifax Farmers’ Supply Co
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Raleigh
International Correspondence Schools
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