spoony palm
Day 32 – May 31
Harry Salmon pitched a complete game, leading Birmingham over Kansas City by a score of 8-1. Birmingham opened the scoring with 5 runs in the bottom of the 4th and coasted from there. Martin Dihigo had a 2-run double and scored twice, and Cristobal Torriente hit his first home run […]
Day 23 – May 16
Kansas City beat Newark 7-3. Old Hoss Radburn picked up his second win, giving up 2 runs in 6 innings. Tris Speaker went 4-4 for Kansas City, and Fats Jenkins added 2 RBI. Buck Ewing and Sammy T. Jones each had 2 hits and an RBI for Newark. New York […]
Day 21 – May 14
The sixth set of 4-game series starts today, with Detroit, New York and St. Louis, tied for first place. Kansas City jumped out to a 1-0 lead on a Tubby Scales solo homer, but fell to Newark 3-1. Sammy T. Hughes scored a run, and Newark picked up solo homers […]
Day 17 – May 7
The fifth set of 4-game series starts today, with the premiere match up featuring New York and St. Louis, tied for first place. Detroit blanked Newark 5-0 in its first road game of the season. Newark finally cooled off. Pete Alexander threw a complete game 4-hitter, Ralph Kiner blasted his […]
April 23- Day 9
Today the third series of the season began. This week’s match ups are Washington at Birmingham, St. Louis at Detroit, Pittsburgh at Kansas City, and last place Newark at first place New York. (Newark really needs to make up some ground soon.)Washington beat Birmingham 3-2 in 14 innings. Bingo Demoss […]
Spoony Palm
Clarence “Spoony” Palm was a power hitting catcher. While playing with the St. Louis Stars in the late 1920s, in a home run friendly ballpark (Stars Park) he put up his better home run totals. Palm played 20 years (1927-1946) for thirteen teams, including the Birmingham Black Barons, Detroit Stars, […]