A Wrong Direction Story, & An Odd Death, From Davis Barker
A Wrong Direction Story, & An Odd Death, From Davis Barker
Davis found these two item in the Sporting News in 1935:
Right Town, But Wrong Club
With a Greenville in North Carolina and another in South Carolina, the former in the Costal Plain and the latter in the Sally, it is not surprising that Joe Zanolli, a young infielder, got mixed up and reported to the wrong camp. He was purchased by the Costal Plain League club from Statesville of the defunct Tar Heel loop, but went to the Sally loop city instead. Joe lives in Massachusetts. Finally straightened out, he showed up at Greenville, N. C., April 4.
Zanolli does not appear in the guide for that season, and one is left to wonder if he ever made back to Massachusetts. I could not find him in subsequent season either.
An Extraordinary Death, & A Question or Two
Charles Wilson, manager of the Huntsville club of the Arkansas State League, on August 2, was killed in a fall from a Ferris wheel in Huntsville, Ark., the coroner calling the death accidental. The player’s real name was Antone Butkus, he having taken the name of Wilson from home town of Wilsonville, Ill. He was born in Marysville, Ill., August 29, 1912, and won fame as a football and basket ball player as well as in baseball. Played with Joplin this year before going to Huntsville.
Charles Wilson, not the only one in O. B., was a pitcher in the Western Association in 1935, then winds up as manager, at 24 years old, for Huntsville while going 11-5 on the mound at the time of his fall.
Davis found these two item in the Sporting News in 1935:
Right Town, But Wrong Club
With a Greenville in North Carolina and another in South Carolina, the former in the Costal Plain and the latter in the Sally, it is not surprising that Joe Zanolli, a young infielder, got mixed up and reported to the wrong camp. He was purchased by the Costal Plain League club from Statesville of the defunct Tar Heel loop, but went to the Sally loop city instead. Joe lives in Massachusetts. Finally straightened out, he showed up at Greenville, N. C., April 4.
Zanolli does not appear in the guide for that season, and one is left to wonder if he ever made back to Massachusetts. I could not find him in subsequent season either.
An Extraordinary Death, & A Question or Two
Charles Wilson, manager of the Huntsville club of the Arkansas State League, on August 2, was killed in a fall from a Ferris wheel in Huntsville, Ark., the coroner calling the death accidental. The player’s real name was Antone Butkus, he having taken the name of Wilson from home town of Wilsonville, Ill. He was born in Marysville, Ill., August 29, 1912, and won fame as a football and basket ball player as well as in baseball. Played with Joplin this year before going to Huntsville.
Charles Wilson, not the only one in O. B., was a pitcher in the Western Association in 1935, then winds up as manager, at 24 years old, for Huntsville while going 11-5 on the mound at the time of his fall.
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