Memorial to Good Fellow

By Chester L. Smith            The Pittsburgh PressMarch 30, 1955 The readers always write – DEAR SIR – I wish to express my appreciation for the column you wrote regarding the Bill Doak Memorial Field at Bradenton, Fla. My how the years have flown! Bill certainly deserved this fine writeup. From […]

Famous McKinley Park Diamond, Cradle of Bill Doak and Other Stars, Passes

Cruel March of Progress Obliterating the Glory That Once Was McKinley Park August 21, 1929     Age 38 By Harry Keck                Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph As pictured below, one of Pittsburgh’s old baseball landmarks is passing from view with the tearing up of the McKinley Park diamond in Beltzhoover to […]

Pittsburgh Sandlot Baseball Recalled

Published May 29, 1929          Age 38By Regis M .Welsh                    Pittsburgh Post Gazette Sports of All Sorts Local sandlotters, still ambitious to be big leaguers, should listen if anyone would attempt to tell them the prelude of the short story which yesterday told […]