Tag: baseball

The Arthur Murray Girls Baseball Team

July 27, 2023
cbkretz
Short newspaper item with the headline "Girls Play Tonight."
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, July 30, 1952.

In 1949 nine women of the Arthur Murray Girls baseball team took the field against the all-male squad from the Patchogue Athletics. By that year, the Murrays had been together […]

Baseball in Riverhead

August 3, 2020
cbkretz
Newspaper headline from 1950 stating "Satchel Paige to pitch at Riverhead."
Riverhead County Review, July 20, 1950. From NYS Historic Newspapers.

A July night at Riverhead Stadium in 1950. Two baseball legends face each other without even realizing it. Satchel Paige, fabled Negro League pitcher, is on the mound for the […]