Green-Wood Cemetery was founded in 1838 and soon became one of America's foremost tourist attractions. It is the resting place for many notables, including Tiffany, Steinway, and Currier and Ives, but the cemetery also has a hidden baseball history. Green-Wood is home to almost two hundred baseball pioneers: members of the Knickerbocker, Atlantic, and Excelsior Clubs of the nineteenth century; Brooklyn's beloved Charles Ebbets; stadium owners; ball makers; and "the Father of Baseball," Henry Chadwick.
The first baseball monument appeared at Green-Wood in 1862 to honor the game's first...
Green-Wood Cemetery was founded in 1838 and soon became one of America's foremost tourist attractions. It is the resting place for many notables, incl...
In the fall of 1897, over 250 baseball fans from Roxbury, Massachusetts, traveled to Baltimore with saloon keeper Nuf-Ced McGreevy and Pres. John F. Kennedy's future grandfather Honey-Fitz Fitzgerald to cheer their Beaneaters to the pennant. They became known famously as the Royal Rooters. Singing their fight song, "Tessie," they cheered on five world champion teams in the early 1900s. When Babe Ruth was sold to the Yankees after 1919, "Tessie" all but disappeared from Fenway. A new generation of Fenway Faithful suffered through decades of heartbreak until "Tessie" returned in 2004 to deliver...
In the fall of 1897, over 250 baseball fans from Roxbury, Massachusetts, traveled to Baltimore with saloon keeper Nuf-Ced McGreevy and Pres. John F. K...
Imagine being able to go back in time to meet one of the original apostles and hear from him first-hand the inside story of the ministry of Christ and the birth of the early church.
In “I, John.....” the author dreams of such an encounter with the aged apostle John, now in exile on the island of Patmos, and hears his account of living through those world-changing events.
Peter Nash is a retired Baptist Minister. He pastored churches in Essex, Surrey and West Sussex, before moving to Hereford, where he joined the ministry team of the...
Imagine being able to go back in time to meet one of the original apostles and hear from him first-hand the inside story of the ministry of Christ ...
