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Dave Chase: Friend of this web site since its inception, is working with the Memphis Redbirds
organization and is one people behind The National Pastime: A Celebration of Baseball in American Life.  This museum will be one of the nation’s unique museums combining baseball and American
history. Upon completion, the Museum will present our nation’s history through
the world of professional baseball.

From the Civil War onward,
The National Pastime will tell the story through the players, men and women,
who helped make baseball the nation’s game.  The museum will cover all of
baseball history and is sanctioned as the official museum of Minor League Baseball. 

While that is something special on its own, you should spend
time at the Memphis Redbirds web site anyway, because the Redbirds are the
only not-for-profit  baseball foundation that owns and operates both the
sports team and their facility. All operating profits are put back into The Memphis
Redbirds Baseball Foundation that funds two youth programs, RBI (Returning
Baseball to the Inner City) and STRIPES (Sports Teams Returning In the Public
Education System). These programs foster amateur sports, enhance education and
teach life skills for the future.

AutoZone Park will be the site of
The National Pastime.  Click on the Redbirds logo to the right and read all
about this wonderful organization.  This is what baseball is really all
about and the Redbirds’ organization deserve recognition for all that they do for
baseball, baseball history, and the greater Memphis area.  Please visit
the site today and get involved!

Kitty League Centennial Reunion Planned
Contact : Kevin McCann
Kitty League Centennial Reunion
283 Murrell
Road  Dickson, TN 37055   (615) 740-0553   Cell: (731)
467-0029 [email protected]
Paducah, KY�Nov. 21, 2002�There will be a reunion of former minor league baseball
players from the Kitty League held on Friday, August 15 and Saturday, August 16,
2003 at the Executive Inn Riverfront in Paducah, KY. Front office personnel,
umpires, broadcasters, writers, official scorers, batboys, and fans as well and
family members are also invited to attend.   Next year will mark the
100th anniversary of the Kitty League�s founding in 1903. The Kitty League was
a Class D minor league which operated in the states of Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana,
Tennessee, and Missouri for various periods between 1903 and 1955. Among
its long-standing members were Fulton, Hopkinsville, Madisonville, Mayfield, Owensboro,
and Paducah, KY.; Cairo, IL.; and Clarksville, Jackson, and Union City,
TN. Other cities such as Bowling Green and Henderson, KY and Dyersburg, Lexington,
Milan, Paris, and Trenton, TN; and Portageville, MO were also members.

For more information, please contact reunion coordinator Kevin McCann at (615)
740-0553, e-mail at [email protected], or visit the website at www.kittyleague.com.

Visit
my websites at:
www.kittyleague.com
www.bigsouth-heartlandleagues.com
www.kevindmccann.com/rowdyredroberts/index.htm
Hobe Hays , author and former semi-pro ballplayer, wrote recently to let me know
about his book « Take Two And Hit It To Right;  Golden Days On The Semi-Pro
Diamond ».  Hobe’s book has been a big success so far.  He working on
a second book about semi-pro ball and he’d like to include a section on semi-pro
ball in Alabama and Georgia.  If you can help with any information, contact
Hobe:

Hobe Hays
6821 Forest Lake Blvd.
Lincoln NE 68516

His
book is available through:

Bison Books
a division
of  the University of Nebraska Press
233 North 8th Street
Lincoln,
NE  68588-0255

GEORGIA / ALABAMA / FLORIDA INTER-LEAGUE REUNION DATE SET

Clint Chafin – longtime supporter of this page and the preservation of deep south
minor league baseball history has organized successful Georgia minor league reunions
for the past few years.  Clint and I have talked in the past about
getting an expanded reunion going, and Clint has now started the process of organizing
the first Georgia-Alabama League / Georgia-Florida League / Alabama-Florida League / deep south
semi-pro reunion.  The reunion dates are:  August 1st & 2nd, 2003.  Possibilities include a Friday golf outing, a public forum on Saturday, displays
of memorabilia, a chance to meet the guys who played the game, and a Saturday night
dinner with guest speakers.  Former players and baseball fans are encouraged
to contact Clint at the email, phone or mail addresses to the left, or
contact me and I’ll pass the information on to Clint.  John Bell, author of
the books above, myself, and other baseball lovers are planning to attend and
it would be great to meet all of you there.   As more information becomes
available, I’ll post it here.   

So far, Golf will be Friday morning 8am start. Sorry for the early start, but they
are going to have another tourney that afternoon. Event site: Sunset Country
Club in Moultrie. Very nice. Played there last year. Should be finished by noon.

Trophies will be given to winning team on Saturday.  Friday night
we will attend the South Ga Waves vs Charleston baseball game in Albany. Gametime
is 7:30pm. Albany is about an hour away and I’m working on getting a bus. I
would like to get everyone to stay at the Hampton Inn in Moultrie. We could pick
up players & spouces here and go to the game.
One lucky player will throw out
the first pitch and one will call the game on radio for a few innings.
Saturday Events:
Event site: Colquitt Co. Ag Building (Building should hold
around 300)

12 noon � 1pm: BBQ Lunch
1pm � 2pm:     
Photos
2pm � 5pm       Public
event (meet and greet players, autographs and story time)
7pm � 9pm      
Supper at Embers Rest.
I am working on a
getting a guest speaker. Possibly Virgil Trucks.