I spent much of yesterday transcribing my interview from Saturday with the 96-year-old former big league teammate of Joe Marty, who I’m interested in writing a book on. While transcribing yesterday, between being held in some kind of spell — a baseball coma, if you will — I got further affirmation of what had already [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Sacramento baseball players’
Baseball coma
Posted: 22nd February 2010 by Graham Womack in Historical topicsTags: Joe Marty, ongoing projects, Sacramento baseball players
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It’s like Christmas around here today
Posted: 20th February 2010 by Graham Womack in Historical topicsTags: Joe Marty, Sacramento baseball players
It’s been an amazing last couple of hours in my life. I had a visitor scheduled for noon today. At 11:57, though, I got a call from the son of the 96-year-old former baseball player I have been wanting to interview for a book on one of his teammates on the 1940 Phillies, Joe Marty. [...]
Questions for the 96-year-old ballplayer
Posted: 10th February 2010 by Graham Womack in Historical topicsTags: Joe Marty, ongoing projects, Ronnie King, Sacramento baseball players
I got some questions mailed off to the daughter of the 96-year-old former baseball player I want to interview. I’m interested in writing a book on one of his former teammates on the 1940 Philadelphia Phillies, Joe Marty, and this man is one of three people still living, all over 90, who played in the [...]
The question of alcoholism and the ex-player
Posted: 8th February 2010 by Graham Womack in UncategorizedTags: Joe Marty, Sacramento baseball players
There is another story from Friday afternoon I have been meaning to tell here. After covering the Fred David estate sale in downtown Sacramento, I interviewed another old Sacramento Solons player, Sam Kanelos, at his bar across the street from the sale, Old Ironsides. Kanelos played more than 50 years ago with a Sacramento native [...]
One final Fred David post: My interview with him in 2001
Posted: 7th February 2010 by Graham Womack in Historical topicsTags: Fred David, interview, Sacramento baseball players
I just got an email from a fellow named Matt, regarding my stories on former Sacramento Solons owner Fred David, who died in October at 100 and whose estate was just liquidated. Matt wanted to know if he could see the interview I did with David in 2001 for my high school senior project. David [...]
More Fred David estate sale pictures
Posted: 6th February 2010 by Graham Womack in Historical topicsTags: Fred David, Sacramento baseball players
I wanted to post some more pictures that I took at the Fred David estate sale on Friday. For my initial post here early Saturday morning, I only used the picture I took of Gus Stathos, because I figured it was my best shot of the day, as well as the most original content I [...]
Day 2 of the estate sale for Sacramento Solons owner Fred David
Posted: 6th February 2010 by Graham Womack in Historical topicsTags: Fred David, Gus Stathos, Sacramento baseball players
SACRAMENTO– It’s as if the old Solon has been transported back more than half a century to his clubhouse at Edmonds Field. In front of Gus Stathos, in a cavernous warehouse downtown dubbed The Building lie some of the final baseball-related relics from the estate of former Sacramento Solons owner Fred David, who died in [...]
Looks like my weekend plans are set
Posted: 4th February 2010 by Graham Womack in Historical topicsTags: Fred David, Joe Marty, ongoing projects, Sacramento baseball players
I was just looking at my Google Analytics stats and saw I had a spike yesterday in the number of people who read my obituary on former Sacramento Solons owner Fred David, who died in October at 100. I wondered if the Sacramento Bee had finally written anything about him. They declined to do a [...]
Let’s get a credential
Posted: 28th January 2010 by Graham Womack in UncategorizedTags: ongoing projects, Sacramento baseball players
A couple months ago, I decided one of my goals for 2010 would be to get a press pass for a San Francisco Giants or Oakland Athletics game. I used to get media access all the time as a journalist and have had passes to Arco Arena for a Sacramento Kings game, AT&T Park for [...]
News on the book front
Posted: 23rd January 2010 by Graham Womack in UncategorizedTags: Joe Marty, ongoing projects, Sacramento baseball players
I got called yesterday to do some freelance corporate writing for a business in Antioch. On my way out to the company’s headquarters to meet with their upper management and get an idea of their needs, I realized I was only about an hour outside of Sacramento, where my parents live. Thus, after I finished [...]