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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

(May 2003) Betsy Byrd writes:

We at Seneca Park Publishing were cleaning out an old storage cubicle recently and
came across a carton containing copies of THE LAST REBEL YELL (a history of the
Alabama-Florida League) by Ken Brooks. These copies are straight out of the
carton–mint condition! The book has been hard to find in recent years…so we’re
pleased to be able to offer THE LAST REBEL YELL to visitors to your website
for the special price of $16 plus $2 postage and handling.  Orders may be
sent to SENECA PARK PUBLISHING, P.O. BOX 315, LYNN HAVEN, FL 32444 (check or money
order)…
Want a copy of The Last Rebel Yell?