Jacobs, Heidi LM

Johnston, Dave

Wright, Miriam

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University of Windsor Scholarship at UWindsor Leddy Library Presentations Leddy Library 11-2017 PPT for Researching Early Canadian Baseball: "Boomer" Harding & the Chatham Coloured All-Stars Heidi LM Jacobs University of Windsor Dave Johnston University of Windsor Miriam Wright University of Windsor Follow this and additional works at: https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/leddylibrarypres  Part of the Library and Information Science Commons Recommended Citation Jacobs, Heidi LM; Johnston, Dave; and Wright, Miriam. (2017). PPT for Researching Early Canadian Baseball: "Boomer" Harding & the Chatham Coloured All-Stars. https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/leddylibrarypres/10 This Presentation is brought to you for free and open access by the Leddy Library at Scholarship at UWindsor. It has been accepted for inclusion in Leddy Library Presentations by an authorized administrator of Scholarship at UWindsor. For more information, please contact scholarship@uwindsor.ca. RESEARCHING EARLY CANADIAN BASEBALL: "BOOMER"HARDING & THE CHATHAM COLOURED ALL-STARSMIRIAM WRIGHT, DAVE JOHNSTON, HEIDI JACOBS, UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR TODAY:• Miriam: Telling the Story With Oral History • Heidi: Finding the Story With Newspapers • Dave: Telling and Sharing the StoryMIRIAM: TELLING THE STORY WITH ORAL HISTORY “YOU COULD GET OUT WITH A RAGGEDY GLOVE AND ONE GLOVE AND WHEN YOU COME IN FROM THE FIELD THE GLOVE WENT DOWN ON THE GROUND AND THE FIELDER FROM THE OTHER TEAM PICKED IT UP….IT WAS GOOD BECAUSE THERE WASN’T MUCH MONEY FLOATING AROUND AND IT GOT THE GUYS TOGETHER”  — JOHN OLBEY, 2016  “THE GIRLS ALWAYS PLAYED BALL WITH THE BOYS…  EVEN MY MOTHER, SHE WOULD BE OUT THERE TOO, AND SHE WAS A LEFT HANDER, SO SHE WOULD BE UP THERE FIGHTING TOO.”  —PAULINE WILLIAMS, 2016  “BASEBALL WAS ONE OF HIS LOVES. . .HE REALLY FOLLOWED BASEBALL. WHEN I SIGNED MY EARLY CONTRACT TO PLAY WITH THE PHILLIES, HE HAD A SUBSCRIPTION, FOR ONE OF THE MIAMI PAPERS, AND HE WOULD GET CLIPPINGS. . . WIN OR LOSE, HE WANTED THE ARTICLE SENT TO CHATHAM. MY DAD HAD SEVEN SCRAPBOOKS” —FERGIE JENKINS, JR ON HIS FATHER, 2016   “WE WOULD GO TO THE PARK AND THE STANDS WOULD BE LOADED. I WOULD BE PLAYING AROUND IN THE DIRT AND [THE] GROWN-UPS WERE ALWAYS CHEERING THEM ON. . I KNOW THAT WAS A BIG EXCITING TIME FOR EVERYBODY.” — ANDREA LEVISY, 2016  “EVERYBODY CAME OUT,” SHE SAID. “AND THEY DID HAVE CROWDS. . . THAT BALL WOULD COME OUT OF STIRLING'S PARK AND YOU JUST PRAYED THAT SOMEBODY WASN'T DRIVING DOWN THE STREET OR WALKING DOWN THE STREET BECAUSE THEY COULD HIT. AND THEY WERE STRONG. . .THEY JUST HAD THE GAME.”   —DOROTHY WRIGHT WALLACE, 2016 “WHEN THEY WON THE SERIES. . .THEY CAME INTO TOWN THEY WERE RIDING ON THE SIDES OF THE CARS AND EVERYTHING AND THE WHOLE TOWN WAS JAMMED AT KING AND FIFTH STREET TO MEET THEM. AND THEY JUST HOLLERED AND CHEERED THEM BECAUSE NOTHING LIKE THAT HAD EVER HAPPENED IN CHATHAM BEFORE AND THEY HAD ALL KINDS OF WHITE FANS, COLOURED FANS… THEY WERE ALL ONTARIO WINNERS AND EVERYBODY JUMPED ON THE BANDWAGON.” —JOHN OLBEY, 2016  “THERE’S LOTS OF BALL TEAMS THAT FLOURISHED AROUND HERE BUT THERE WAS NO COLOURED TEAM AND WHEN IT WAS FORMED, IT BECAME A UNIT THAT WAS WELL KNOWN. AND I KNOW THEY ALL HAD PRIDE IN THEIR ACCOMPLISHMENTS. I THINK IT LEFT A LEGACY THAT LASTED FOR QUITE A WHILE ANYWAY, UNTIL THE BOYS WERE GONE.” — JOHN OLBEY, 2016“I'M SO THANKFUL THAT WE HAD MEN OF THAT CALIBRE WHO WENT OUT -- I'M THINKING OF THAT LAST GAME, IN TIMES OF ADVERSITY AND SO FORTH, YET THEY TRIUMPHED.”   —CLEATA MORRIS, 2016 “HE'S SEEN A LOT OF PEOPLE PLAY BALL. BUT HE SAYS YOU NEVER EVER SAW A THIRD BASEMAN LIKE THAT. AND EVEN TO THIS DAY HE'S NEVER, EVER SEEN A THIRD BASEMAN PLAY THE WAY THAT KING TERRELL DID.”  — DOROTHY WRIGHT WALLACE ON HER BROTHER EDDIE WRIGHT, 2016HEIDI: FINDING THE STORY WITH NEWSPAPERS EVEN WHEN IT’S REALLY GOOD, SAY 90%, IT STILL MEANS IT’S NOT ACCURATELY READING 10 OUT OF EVERY HUNDRED CHARACTERS.  EV_N WHEN IT’S REALLY G_OD, SAY 90%, IT S_ILL _EANS IT’S N_T ACCU_ATELY READING 10 OUT OF _VERY HU_DRED C_ARACTE_S.  JACK CALDER“MAKE AN ENDEAVOR TO SEE MORE BASEBALL; YOU NEED IT”DAVE: TELLING AND SHARING THE STORY  THANK YOU!HARDINGPROJECT@UWINDSOR.CA TWITTER: BOOMERHARDING

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