Archive for “baseball”
Mosby Spartans take Hotchkiss Eagles 5-3 and bring baseball back
Style Weekly gives the cover to the Mosby Spartans and their coach Lawrence Day: For most of the Mosby players, baseball didn’t exist four months ago. The game played by their fathers and grandfathers, sparking a Civil Rights movement when Jackie Robinson made his debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, isn’t supposed to be [...]
Explosive Baseballs
An excerpt on baseball from The Boy Gangs of Richmond in the Dear Old Days: There was a small field near Carrington Street, years (and years and years) ago. In it a gang of little boys used to play baseball, not merely short-pants kids, but knee-high-to-a-duck kids, do you mind. Near this field there lived [...]
Seeking volunteers for baseball
Clarence Kenney is looking for volunteers to help launch a new neighborhood-based baseball program. If you’re interested in helping out, contact Clarence at Sports_Noah@yahoo.com.
Important CHA meeting on Dec.2
An ad-hoc Church Hill Association membership meeting will be held at St. John’s Parish Hall on Dec.2 @ 7PM. The 2009 CHA budget, new zoning for the area, the proposed plan to build a baseball stadium in Shockoe Bottom, and the Oakwood Heights project are all part of the agenda. (previously)
Church Hill Association sets important ad-hoc meeting for December
An ad-hoc Church Hill Association membership meeting will be held at St. John’s Parish Hall on Dec.2 beginning at 7PM to discuss important matters relating to the Association and community. The 2009 CHA budget along with the new zoning for the area, (which has been briefed and discussed at two previous meetings) needs to be [...]
City unveils development proposals for Shockoe, Boulevard
Today the City Administration unveiled the result of a nearly year-long procurement process to develop two large tracts within the City at North Boulevard and Main Street Station. [via]
Baseball’s Ray Dandridge
Style Weekly’s history of Richmond baseball, Before the Braves, has a section about Church Hill-native Ray Dandridge, “the best player Richmond ever produced and the city’s only member of baseball’s Hall of Fame”.
