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« Reply #885 on: February 11, 2013, 10:03:58 PM » |
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^ R.I.P., indeed. A remarkable woman. Talking of female baseball pioneers, the Times recently ran the obituary of one of the inspirations for the film A League of Their Own: Lavonne Paire Davis, Baseball Pioneer, Dies at 88
By WILLIAM YARDLEY
Lavonne Paire Davis, a star in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League of the 1940s and 1950s and a consultant for the hit movie “A League of Their Own,” died on Saturday in the Van Nuys section of Los Angeles. She was 88.
Her death was confirmed by Jeneane Lesko, a board member of the league’s players association.
Davis, who was known as Pepper Paire in her playing days, entered the league in 1944, the year after it was formed by Philip W. Wrigley, the chewing-gum magnate and owner of the Chicago Cubs. Wrigley had worried that World War II would deplete professional baseball of male players and force it to fold. That never happened, but his women’s pro league became popular anyway, and Davis became one of its most enduring players. More here: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/05/sports/baseball/lavonne-paire-davis-baseball-pioneer-dies-at-88.html |
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« Reply #889 on: February 17, 2013, 10:31:02 PM » |
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" Baseball’s first woman scout dies at 100 "
By Craig Calcaterra
http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/02/11/baseballs-first-woman-scout-dies-at-100/related/
R.I.P. Edith.
The New York Times finally got around to publishing an obituary for Edith Houghton. She was not only apparently the first independently hired female Major League Baseball scout ... she seems to have been the last! (Well, not counting Mickey Lobel's probable future career after Trouble with the Curve.) Houghton, who died on Feb. 2 in Sarasota, Fla., at 100, liked to say that she was the first woman hired as a major league scout on her own. Her one known predecessor, Bessie Largent, had worked for many years in tandem with her husband, Roy, as a scout for the Chicago White Sox. But as Houghton pointed out to interviewers, although she never made a fuss about it, she worked solo for the Phillies from 1946 to 1951.
There are different accounts about why Houghton got the job. Some say she bowled over the Phillies’ president, Robert Carpenter, with an uncanny grasp of the game. Others mention the scrapbook she brought along, bulging with newspaper clippings documenting her impressive career as a player in the 1920s and ’30s on the women’s national baseball circuit known as the Bloomer Girls league.
Philadelphia sportswriters, bitter at the team’s decade-long swoon at or near the bottom of the standings, said the Phillies had hired her simply because they had nothing to lose.
But that she got the job at all constitutes one of the most unusual accomplishments by any woman in American sports.
Frank Marcos, senior director of the Major League Baseball Scouting Bureau, baseball’s cooperative scouting service, said that in addition to being one of the first female scouts in baseball, Houghton was apparently also the last.
“We have been talking about this all day, making calls to clubs all over the country,” Marcos said in an interview Thursday, after news of Houghton’s death had begun to circulate widely. “And we know of no other part-time or full-time women scouts in baseball since then.”
He added: “Would I like to change that? Darn right.” http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/16/sports/baseball/edith-houghton-rarity-as-baseball-scout-dies-at-100.html |
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« Reply #895 on: February 20, 2013, 09:55:53 PM » |
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The Newe York Times finally got around to publishing an obituary for Edith Houghton. She was not only apparently the first independently hired female Major League Baseball scout ... she seems to have been the last! (Well, not counting Mickey Lobel's probable future career after Trouble with the Curve.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/16/sports/baseball/edith-houghton-rarity-as-baseball-scout-dies-at-100.html
(Well, not counting Mickey Lobel's probable future career after Trouble with the Curve.) ^Yes, that will be just in our mind!!  In 1925, the Bobbies toured Japan, playing men's college teams for $800 a game. As a team they were less than spectacular, but the Japanese press had only good things to say about Edith.
http://www.exploratorium.edu/baseball/houghton.htmlThe Philadelphia Inquirer interviewed Houghton in 1986 for an article about the discovery of a Philadelphia woman’s journal in the archives of the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Written by one of Houghton’s teammates on the Bobbies, it described their two-month tour of Japan.
“For young women in 1925 — to be playing baseball and to be going to Japan — well, that was pretty exciting,” Houghton told the interviewer. “I wish I could remember more about it. But I was so young then.” http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/16/sports/baseball/edith-houghton-rarity-as-baseball-scout-dies-at-100.html?_r=0 Incredible story that she was only 13!!.....  She was really great!!  |
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« Reply #896 on: March 13, 2013, 10:03:03 PM » |
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Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist, believed to be the last surviving member of the conspiracy to assassinate Hitler in July, 1944, has died at the age of 90. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/13/world/europe/ewald-heinrich-von-kleist-anti-hitler-plotter-dies-at-90.html Like many Germans involved in efforts to kill Hitler, Mr. von Kleist was a soldier — a lieutenant in the German Army — but his family had long been active in the German resistance. In January 1944, he was 22 and recuperating in Berlin from wounds he suffered in combat when he was approached by Col. Claus von Stauffenberg to join an assassination plot.
At the time, Lieutenant von Kleist led a unit that was scheduled to meet with Hitler to show him new Army uniforms. Colonel von Stauffenberg asked Lieutenant von Kleist to take along hidden explosives, which he would then detonate at the meeting.
“I found it a very difficult decision, I must say,” Mr. von Kleist recalled in an interview for a 1992 documentary, “The Restless Conscience.”
He asked for a day to decide, and he traveled home from Berlin to talk with his father, Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin. His father had been arrested many times for resistance activity.
“The next morning, my father said, ‘Why are you here again?’ “ Mr. von Kleist recalled. “I said, ‘Well, I have difficult decisions I have to make.’ He said, ‘What is it?’ And I told him. And he said at once, ‘Yes, of course you have to do it,’ and I said, ‘Yes, but I have to blow up with the colonel.’
“He got up from his chair, went to the window, looked out of the window for a moment, and then he turned and said: ‘Yes, you have to do that. A man who doesn’t take such a chance will never be happy again in his life.’ ”
Lieutenant von Kleist agreed to go through with the plan, but Hitler canceled at the last moment — he frequently changed his schedule late in the war — and Colonel von Stauffenberg and others began devising a new plan.
In July 1944, as other conspirators in the plot were being discovered and arrested, Colonel von Stauffenberg, whose Army role gave him access to top leaders, decided to leave a bomb under a table during a meeting of Hitler and his aides at Wolf’s Lair, his field headquarters in East Prussia. Lieutenant von Kleist was among several conspirators whose job was to wait in Berlin to be ready to stage a coup once Hitler’s death was confirmed. After the bomb went off, but failed to kill Hitler, the Nazis rounded up and executed more than 5,000 plotters and their supporters, including Stauffenberg and Lt. Kleist's father. But he survived—arrested, but eventually released to the front. He became a publisher after the war. R.I.P. |
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« Reply #899 on: March 21, 2013, 03:38:56 AM » |
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This is a little late. On March 7th Kenny Ball the jazz trumpeter died aged 82. I so enjoyed his music. If his name doesn't tell you who he was perhaps the music "Midnight in Moscow", "When I'm Sixty Four" and "Samantha" will remind you.  RIP Kenny He'll be joining the jazz greats for an impromptu jam session. We have lost a number of the greatest jazz men over the last year. |
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