Specs (~1946)
Posted on Friday, February 6, 2009 @ 8:44 pm
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Since my Sporting News access vanished with Paper of Record, I'm looking for information in other places. This from Raymond Cady's Umpire Card, on Retrosheet's website:
(First Umpire to wear glasses on field in O.B. [Organized Ball])
Ray Cady has no Midwest League connection; I just stumbled across his card while researching something else. He worked in the low minors--Pioneer League, Sunset League, Texas-Arizona League--just after World War II.
The Umpire Cards--really they were repurposed Player Cards--were maintained by The Sporting News from around 1910 to about 1985. All the umpire cards are available on Retrosheet; the TSN player cards are not available anywhere.
For now I'm resisting ranting about Paper of Record's disappearance. But I miss it.
Last changed 7/25/09 @ 11:09 pm
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