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puDiic s ngni 10 kiiuw. sity ----I StatiTHORNTON “HORNBUCKLE Th BUCK’* Buchanan dropped by I talk? the office a few days ago, in frorr terested in the Farmington fire Or truck election. Buck, who ought man to he in the first hunch of in sas ductees when Northwest Ar ref kansas gets around to forming rus. its own Sports Hall of Kamr, Lroa Is a longtime school board McC member out his way. as well orje as a prominent civic leader. writ I hardly knew him because Lf t he's taken on some extra wm pounds. Weighs in at 230 poundsor so now, he says, which will a good bit more than his best h)jn, fighting weight when he was a|Macheadliner at the weekly boxing prea matches at the old National, Ass(Guard Armory. fhrBuc k looks good. though he lt;w psays he's had a little physical L. trouble that has slowed him hodown. Oldtimers will recall that Buc k was a mrmbrr of the very L first professional baseball team L-._n ever to play in Fayetteville That was back in 1934 (the record hook shows Siloatn ..Springs beating the FayettevilleEducators. 9 7 in 12 innings). L,In addition to Buck, who was * a pitc her, that original team had the late Parker Rushing on “ first base. Fred Hawn, catching.Llt;onTlAnd .lake Drake, longtime* resi-dent of this city, also pitching. '_ son MANY FONI) memories of |? Fayetteville’s membership in I h e professional baseballbusiness still abound... amongthose old enough to rec all Con giderable numbers of residentswent in caravan to out-of town games, in those good old days.And attendance a! home was generally good Merchants helped promote ticket sales; signed up for sign space on the outfield wall; and were usually good for a “special assessment A if occasion demanded barBox seats were sold to holpjvj||u n d e i writ e expenses, and prominent civic* leaders helped chase foul balls into the weeds so the games could go on A former municipal judge manned ' the public address system, and ”rlt; local supfHirters pitched in to del help in league administration h]’1 To ‘ell the honest truth, the Iu’ town was, for one of tin1 few p hrtimes in its history, thoroughly I united on behalf of a single har project In my lifetime up not until the present Board of thfldirectors took office, ‘hat is aI haven t aeen anything to mieompare. laHthe.mi
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Northwest Arkansas Times
Fayetteville, Arkansas, US
Sat, Mar 10, 1973
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