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1936 Andalusia Reds
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These two team pictures are (I think) the same photo with a different layout. The
top one is the actual photo of the 1936 Andalusia Rams, and the one below is a composite of the players in the original photo that appeared in the 1936 Official Baseball Guide . |
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1) Ewing Harbin
2) President D.L. O’Neal 3) Bill Tench 4) Gerald Veach |
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5) Wilbur Cook
6) Ed Brockhoeft 7) Fred Gleason , 8) Loy Bobo 9) Yam Yaryan |
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10) Warren Jones
11) Claude Pittman 12) Irv Breaux , |
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13) Richard Taylor
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14) Roy Humphries
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15) Woody Coombs
16) Hoyt Farmer 17) John Collins 19) Ballboy 18) Larry Mashburn |
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Left to Right – Top: Ewing Harbin, President D.L. O’Neal, Bill
Tench, Gerald Veach 1) Wilbur Cook, 2) Ed Brockhoeft, 3) Fred Gleason, 4) Loy Bobo, 5) Warren Jones, 6) Claude Pittman, 7) Yam Yaryan, 8) Richard Taylor, 9) Roy Humphries, 10) Woody Coombs, 11) Hoyt Farmer, 12) John Collins, 13)Irv Breaux, 14) Larry Mashburn, Front: Ball Boy |
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« Many of the parks had minimal lighting, which made the ball hard to pick up. I got
beaned in Dothan one night when I lost the ball when batting. The out field fence advertisement also obscured your vision. During a night game in Andalusia against Greenville, I tagged up on third after a fly ball to center and took off toward home at top speed. It was a close game and upon approaching home, I went into my slide. The catcher reacted to an errant throw to the third base side of the field and we collided about six feet from the plate. The catcher was stunned from my teeth in his head while I was out cold and a bloody mess. Russell Reid dragged me across the plate for the score while the Pirates complained to the umpire. We won but I lost a tooth, which I have replaced several times over the years, the last being two months ago. That bridge cost me more than all the money I earned in baseball. » …… John Ronscavage |