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Evening Public Ledger - July 20, 1920

Czar of Baseball Clears Pelicans in Scandal Case

Fellow SABR member Skip Nipper's amazing Sulphur Dell website shared the following "on this date" fact this morning...

August 27, 1925 - Kenesaw Mountain Landis, Commissioner of Baseball, announces that has has found no justification for penalties to Nashville Vols players Fred Eichrodt and Lute Roy for allegations of attempts to switch the two players to New Orleans for the remainder of the season to enhance the Pelicans chances to win the championship. 

However, the Commissioner states that Vols manager Jimmy Hamilton is "highly censurable for encouraging Ralph McGill, sports editor of the Nashville Banner, to publish the story". During the hearing in Chicago, Larry Gilbert, manager of the New Orleans club, was called to testify.

I wanted to know more about the story so I went off to GenealogyBank.

The Times-Picayune - August 28, 1925

Stars and Angels Brawl

Graham Womack has a great baseball site, Baseball: Past and Present.  I was looking through it and came across his interview with Bob Usher about the Hollywood Stars and Los Angeles Angels on August 2 of 1953.  I was curious to see if I could find any images from that dust up.  I did.

The Sporting News - August 12, 1953

The Sporting News - August 12, 1953

images from Paper of Record

Satchel Paige's Last Game

Satchel Paige doesn't need much of an introduction.  He played in the Negro Leagues, finally making it to the bigs in 1948.  His final game in the major leagues was on September 25, 1965.

SABR member Ted Knorr asked on facebook: In Satchel Paige’s last game in organized ball, who relieved him?

There were a few guesses.  I didn't know, but I needed clarification.  Did "organized ball" mean only MLB?  Ted clarified that it meant MLB and their affiliated minors.  I still didn't know the answer.

A bit of digging on baseball-reference.com and then GenealogyBank.com yielded the following article.  Satchel's final game in organized ball.

The Greensboro Record - June 22, 1966

So you don't have to squint...

images from GenealogyBank.com