Results tagged “Lou Gehrig” from York Town Square

Babe Ruth's autograph is shown on a piece of Hotel Penn stationary owned by West Manchester Township resident Jason Showvaker in 2006. Showvaker obtained the stationery from another collector. Background posts: Story answers much about great athlete Hinkey Haines, including origin of his nickname and York turned its eyes to Joe DiMaggio and Adding to York baseball timeline: Revs ready for 'second helping'.

Jim Fickes (orioleitis@comcast.net) e-mailed to explore a claim from his father that Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig played baseball at White Oak Park.

His late grandfather saw them play there.

"I saw your article which included a picture of the park from July of 1945. Was any baseball ever played there? Whatever info you could provide would be appreciated,"
he wrote.

We'll turn the question of the Babe's appearance at the White Oak Park ballfield, north of York, to any fans out there to respond.

Here's some help.

York Daily Record columnist Jim Hubley wrote an account in 1995 of the Babe's visit to Eagles Park for the game that Jim Fickes' grandfather probably recalled:

This Hanover Raiders team in 1921 is one of 300 photographs in the recently released book "Hanover Raiders: Minor League Baseball in Hanover, Pennsylvania." Background posts: Adding to baseball timeline: Revs ready for 'second helping', Little school house in Hanover: A Story of Circus and Coal Room, and A journey from Delone Catholic to the Super Bowl.

John Coulson's new book on professional baseball in Hanover in the first part of the 20th century caused some Web commenters to call for the organization of such a minor league team.

"It would be cool to start up this team again in the same league as York (Revolution) and Lancaster (Barnstormers)," one person commented.

The Hanover area wouldn't appear to have the population base to support such a team, and it would take years and years to build a stadium.

But the comment shows that some in town yearn for those days when the Hanover Raiders ruled.

Coulson points the community's memory to those days, as the following Hanover Evening Sun story (7/07/2008) indicates: