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Georgia Racial Bill Threatens Braves Base at Waycross, Milwaukee Sentinel, 14 February, 1957, 15. All comments must follow the Encyclopedia of Milwaukee Community rules and terms of use, and will be moderated prior to posting. Having trouble downloading our e-books? The two men first met at Waycross in 1960, when Carty was finding the going especially tough. Hank Aaron Biography, Oregon Post Magazine Online, www.u-s-history.com/pages/h3753.html. They played their home games at County Stadium (Park Factors: 93/90) where 2,215,404 fans witnessed their 1957 Braves finish the season with a .617 winning percentage. It was a fine line, but one the Braves managed to walk with some considerable success. Bob Elliott, Slam Sports, 16 February 2009. The Waycross entry in the Class D Georgia State League in 1914 was called the Grasshoppers and later the Moguls. Tips/tools for using data grids: Manual Filter: Single-click a row to highlight in orange. 1957 Georgia Memorial to Congress, Absolute Astronomy, 8 March 1957. Monday, October 7, 1957 at County Stadium in Milwaukee, Wisconsin WP: Lew Burdette (2-0) LP: Whitey Ford (1-1) With the opposing team's top two pitchers, Whitey Ford and Lew Burdette, facing each other, Game 5 was expected to be a low-scoring affair. copyright=new Date(); Don C. Trenary tells a story of a young Puerto Rican who, during a nighttime power failure, couldnt find his way to the washroom and panicked, his unintelligible cries creating havoc in his teepee. As attendance declined, Perini sold the Braves in November 1962 to a group of investors from Chicago. One caption declares that the road to the major leagues is long and dusty more often than not. To Milwaukee. Telephone conversation with Jim Fanning, 3 February 2010. Or, as Willie ORee put it: If your name appeared on this list, it meant you were being sent home.66 Decisions to keep or release a player were made at the end of the day by managers and scouts who evaluated each player.67. ORee with McKinley, The Autobiography of Willie ORee, 41. Because Perini also owned the Brewers, he was able to transfer his Milwaukee farm club to Toledo to make way for the Braves. The newly minted Milwaukee Braves added Bill Bruton and Jim Pendleton in 1953, Hank Aaron and catcher Charlie White in 1954, and Panamanian pitcher Humberto Robinson, who had played in Quebec, the following year. Okefenokee mosquitoes are not like other mosquitoes. We have a contract at Waycross which we must fill this year, he said, but we may decide to move our rookie camp operations to another state a year from now.116, Reactions elsewhere within the baseball community were similar. They were the roadblock to one of the most dominant forces in baseball history. Research by Baseball Almanac. The Braves set a Major League record which still stands for the fewest players caught stealing in a season, with 8.[1]. Bill Hicks, The Oregonian, 19 September 1994. 44. 101. Telephone conversation with John Ambrose, February 3, 2010. Czerwinski, Class D trailblazer Turned to Teaching., 94. 66. That same year he put in six games with the Bears before leaving baseball altogether.15 All three names appear on the Bears 1954 roster although none played more than a handful of games.16, The April 23, 1954, edition of the Milwaukee Journal Sunday supplement includes a charming photo spread featuring the Braves Waycross minor-league spring training camp. 17. Povletich, William. Brooklyn allowed 650 runs, least in the league. . Hank Aaron led all regulars with a .393 average and 11 hits, including a triple, three home runs and seven RBI. The shift initiated a series of westward migrations by teams and provided the impetus for league expansion. It was here that the most influential decision makers (general manager John Quinn, John Mullen, and his assistant Roland Hemond) took in practice drills and games. Lyle Spatz, Bad Bill Dahlen: The Rollicking Life and Times of an Early Baseball Star (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2004), 53. Trenary, Braves Will Take $100,000 Gamble.. Aaron with Wheeler, I Had a Hammer, 55. It is a comprehensive team roster and player names are sorted by the fielding position where the most number of games were played during the regular season. ORee with McKinley, The Autobiography of Willie ORee, 41. 48. I mean without touching the ball. In 1950, Boston signed Negro Leagues veteran Sam Jethroe to a major-league contract, and he won the NL Rookie of the Year Award.69 African American players Buzz Clarkson and George Crowe and Puerto Rican Luis Marquez followed, and the precedent was set. 555 N. Central Ave. #416 [5] A Look At Baseball Scouts and Their Profession (released in December 2011); OPENING FENWAY PARK IN STYLE: The 1912 World Champion Red Sox (May 2012); Red Sox Baseball in the Days of Ike and Elvis: The Red Sox of the 1950s (September 2012); Detroit Tigers 1984: What A Start! State Attorney General Bronson La Follette sued to keep the team, but on Opening Day 1966 the once-beloved Braves, who had never experienced a losing season in 13 years in Milwaukee, were playing in Atlanta Stadium. They defeated the Dodgers in six games to reach the World Series for the first time since 1999. Waycross (the camp) was always about the minor leagues, specifically the lower minors, Class A to Class D. While the Braves major-league team and higher affiliates utilized different spring-training venues, including Bradenton, Jacksonville, Kissimmee, and later West Palm Beach, Florida, Waycross remained primarily a rookie factory,1 the preserve of the novice. One man he helped was Rico Carty, a native of the Dominican Republic. http://bioproj.sabr.org. Regular Season Runs For: 771 By 1959, Waycross was hosting upward of 380 young men, with an average age of 20 years, and the number of clubs training there had risen to eight.50 Of the 30 players on the 1957 Milwaukee Braves roster, more than half had come through "this camp or its predecessor at Myrtle Beach, S.C."51 Bill 44 never did become law. 1958 Milwaukee Braves Roster National League ( NL) Team Record: 92-62 Finished 1st in the NL Attendance: 1,971,015, Avg. - Gallery - Errors / Variations 67. And then they shut it down.130. Because the Braves were the sole occupants of the camp, the atmosphere was more relaxed than perhaps in a different kind of facility. Aaron with Wheeler, I Had a Hammer, 55. I wasnt going to cause a revolution during my first few minutes in town.104, ORee spent two weeks at Waycross. Placing a black player in the South, he wrote, was dangerous, at worst, and, at best, scandalous.88 Yet in 1953, here were the Braves sending the trio of Aaron, Mantilla, and Garner to the Sally League, in Jacksonville. Encyclopedia of Milwaukee reserves the right to use the comments we receive, in whole or in part, and to use the commenter's name and location, in any medium. It was a story of temporary denizens on a small piece of land hidden beyond the Okefenokee Swamp, young men who, over a period of almost 15 years, learned how to be baseball playersand, in so doing, brought change and deeper meaning to their lives and to the lives of others, sometimes in spite of themselves. Books will be available in digital formats as well as paperbacks produced by print on demand (POD). The 1958 Milwaukee Braves played 154 games during the regular season, won 92 games, lost 62 games, and finished in first position. Hank Aaron with Lonnie Wheeler, I Had a Hammer: The Hank Aaron Story (New York: HarperCollins, 1991), 54. The following season Milwaukee tied for first but lost to the L.A. Dodgers in a playoff. 30,343 Ballpark: County Stadium Won World Series World Series - Defeated New York Yankees 4-3 Manager: Fred Haney (95-59) Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin 1957 Milwaukee Braves Statistics 1957 Milwaukee Braves Roster Chicago Cubs Chi Cubs Cincinnati Reds Cincinnati Milwaukee Brewers Milwaukee Pittsburgh Pirates Pittsburgh St. Louis Cardinals St. Louis. Telephone conversation with Roland Hemond, 5 February 2010. Unfortunately, the Deep South, as Willie ORee observed, was not the most pleasant place for a black man to be.87, Aarons writing colleague Lonnie Wheeler was even more direct. They all made it to the major leagues. 11 Braves Players Polished at Kids Camp in Six Years, 21. Telephone conversation with Roger L. Williams, 9 February 2010. Not that Waycross itself was especially inhospitable. 10. Spahn spent almost his whole career with the Braves, beginning with them in Boston in 1942. The buildings were of war-time construction and so full of cracks that when the wind blew it went right through the walls, providing excellent ventilation. Trembling Earth Recreational Complex, some six miles from the site of Bravesville, is the hub of youth sports in todays Waycross. 1957 Milwaukee Braves, Braves 1957 Roster. 126. The only reason [the mosquitoes]72 didnt get me was that I had to stay in the car, he said. 26. 41. One of our strengths was that we all got along pretty well. . Waycross Bravesville, as it appeared circa 1960. This article is our opportunity to restore that balance. However, following the 1963 reorganization of baseballs league-classification system and the elimination of the B, C, and D classesthe result of significant league and team contraction128 its days grew numbered. over New York Yankees (A.L.) Lew Burdette hurled three complete-game victories, including two shutouts, to bring the championship to "Bushville," which Milwaukee legend suggests was the sobriquet applied to the city by the Yankees. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. Stay tuned throughout the year for new (and old!) Prior to 1958 season: In an unusual turn of events for a World Series champion, Braves' manager Fred Haney replaced all four members of his 1957 coaching staff after the Fall Classic triumph: third-base coach Connie Ryan, first-base coach Johnny Riddle, pitching coach Charlie Root, and bullpen coach Bob Keely. They went 45-32 at home and 50-27 on the road. Their presence sounded echoes of an earlier time, when airmen on their way to war passed through Waycross. Ken Fenster, e-mail communication with coauthors. In 1954, a solid third baseman, Andr Pratte, showed plenty of finesse at the hot corner and at bat, poling the pitches to the far corners of the field.100 Others followed. This time he had to make the five-day, 2,000-mile trip by bus. Every player's name links to their career statistics. . The stadium had actually been built for the minor league Milwaukee Brewers. 3. 124. 87. 70 Along the way the club continued to invite young black and Hispanic players to spring training, most of whom started at Waycross. The Braves clinched their fourth consecutive National League East division title. Activities included movies three nights a week, ping pong, shuffleboard, horse shoe pits, and a juke box.33 Curfew was set at 11:00 P.M. Pat Jordan, in his autobiographical A False Spring, describes the spring of 1960, which he spent at Waycross. There was nothing to worry about.39, The cafeteria-like mess hall, owned and operated by the Braves, was further north and near the swamp. . Basketball Stats - NBA - ABA - WNBA/Women's - G-League/D-League - Minor League Basketball - Search Lacrosse Stats - MLL - NLL - Lacrosse Search Gautreau was a legendary figure at Waycross, acknowledged as an expert in the scouting and training of young hopefuls and famed for his good nature and generosity. This book celebrates the Milwaukee Braves historic 1957 World Series championship season. Senior columnists filed lush, daily reports under the Waycross dateline, highlighting the happenings of baseballs early spring. 131. In all the years I played baseball, wrote Hank Aaron, I never had a manager who cared more for his players or knew more about the game.86 Jacksonville was part of the Sally League, a baseball icon revered in the Deep South. Nevertheless, its legacy, the fruit of its many and varied accomplishments, will continue to ripen for years yet to comeand in the most unexpected ways. . The wooden Air Corps buildings were torn down, although the concrete changing room still stands; fences were removed; light standards disassembled; and the diamonds, still discernable beneath the unkempt grass, were left fallow. They were young pitchers attending their first spring training in the Milwaukee Braves organization in Waycross, Georgia, and they couldnt speak English. Lemieux, A lentrainement des Braves.. Braves of Future May Be Home Grown, Milwaukee Journal, 25 April 1954, 3. Hank Aaron drove in 132 runs and topped hitters with significant playing time by hitting .322. About Us - Contact Us - Credits - Recommended - Privacy Policy - Schedule and Scores Don C. Trenary, Braves Will Take $100,000 Gamble on Hopefuls in Rookie Spring Camp, Milwaukee Journal, 3 March 1957, sect. 39. Somehow he missed the return trip, which meant making the long walk back to the barracks. 23. Family, friends, writers, scouts, and general hangers-on all added to the hustle and bustle of the day. 40. Contributors | And when I saw those pitchers throwing the ball right by me, the first thing on my mind was, Send me home because I dont like it over here . An African American, he was a rookie infielder at Waycross in 1957. Trivia alert: The word for trembling earth in the language of the local Creek people is Okefenokee. 16. http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/league.cgi?code=GAFL&class=A. News, 30 March, 1955, 21. Summaries of the regular season and World Series re-create the magic of that unforgettable season. . The Waycross camp experienced a bit of a dead cat bounce in the spring of 1967, when the Kansas City Athletics left their minorleague center in Daytona Beach and moved in.131 But when the As decamped for Oakland, the minor-league operation also headed west. Entitled the 1957 Georgia Memorial to Congress,119 the document underscored Georgias continuing battle for segregation and, in language harsh and unfeeling, demanded the right to discriminate against racial minorities in public schools120 and everywhere else. Collection Summary. The 1957 Milwaukee Braves, managed by Fred Haney, won the World Series after finishing the MLB regular season in 1st place in the NL with a 95-59 record. When the municipality replaced the center with a more modern facility some years later, the old Braves training grounds were incorporated into an expanding Waycross Ware County Industrial Park. Coaches gave him another look; his confidence improved, as did his hitting, and soon Carty was on his way to a 15-year career as an outfielder in the major leagues. A collaborative effort of 32 members of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), Thars Joy in Braveland! 2. Roland Hemond recalls that several Hispanic prospects found this mix too daunting and returned home, a malaise that probably touched certain Quebecois players as well. Hugh did a wonderful job of preparing excellent playing fields.32, Beyond the diamonds, set back in the woods, were nine wooden buildings, all of World War II vintage. 1957 Milwaukee Braves Results The Milwaukee Braves of the National League ended the 1957 season with a record of 95 wins and 59 losses, finishing first in the NL. What whites were willing to countenance before Brown, integrated sleeping arrangements, eating arrangements, etc, they were not willing to accept after Brown.83 According to Fenster, the Brown decision undermined the social fabric of the South. Postseason History 1957 World Series On this page: All Games in Series The Milwaukee Braves quickly became the sensation of baseball. Sentinel, 14 February 1957, 15. They tried to move the club to Atlanta after the 1964 season, but the stadium lease held them in Milwaukee through 1965. 111. Guy Lemieux, A lentrainement des Braves: rapports, Le Soleil (newspaper), April 1953. 11 Braves Players Polished at Kids Camp in Six Years, 21. so I just step in and help.98. Awards and honors Hank Aaron, National League Most Valuable Player Warren Spahn, starting pitcher, the Major League Baseball Cy Young Award World Series awards Lew Burdette, World Series Most Valuable Player Lew Burdette, Babe Ruth Award All-Stars Roger L. Williams says thats where I and many of my contemporaries learned to swim.132. Today, surrounded by a regional population of 15,000, Waycross serves as the county seat for Ware County and is regarded as something of a tourist destination. However, the game started out with the Yankees looking to score in the first inning. In 1898, the Chicago Colts, the forerunners of the Cubs, set up spring training there, only to discover that Waycross was a temperance town with few amenities8 and that the team would be lodged at a Podunk hotel with only two bathtubs for 18 men, the infields were weedy patches of sand, and the cuisine outraged the ballplayers.9 In 1906, the town hosted the Machinists, a professional team in the Class D Georgia State League. And to make the experience even more frightening, they would become not only the first black players on their team but in the league as well.89 It fell to Geraghty to help them make it through.90, Wherever we stayed, Aaron wrote, Ben Geraghty would always make it a point to come over and see us . 113. The Bears already had a first baseman, and Jones was struggling at the plate. [11] McHale would serve as the Braves' general manager and, later, team president, through the club's final years in Milwaukee and its 1966 move to Atlanta, before his dismissal that year. There were these white guys sitting at the soda fountain, he recalls, and sure enough, they started in with racial remarks and name-calling. 61. 15. Other Sports Stats - World TeamTennis Stats - World TeamTennis Search 45. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in, Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. I was the foreigner, Pich recalls. - Contributors I cant play the game., Mullens answer was, If you want to go home, give me back my money., Carty replied, If you want that money, go to my country and get it. Mullen was adamant: If I dont get it, youre not leaving., I felt the tears start to roll from my eyes, remembers Carty, and I walk away.99. While neither lasted more than a few games, they were, according to the St. Petersburg Times, the first of their race to appear in the Class D Georgia-Florida Baseball League.14 However, Lew Jones, a Milwaukee signee, also claimed this honor. Sam Jethroe was traded from the Montreal Royals of the Triple-A International League to the Boston Braves in 1949 and made his National League debut in 1950. "Caught Stealing: Single Season Team Records", Claude Raymond page at Baseball Reference, The Society for American Baseball Research, Milwaukee Braves team page at Baseball Reference, 2011 Major League Baseball wild card chase, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1958_Milwaukee_Braves_season&oldid=1120526703, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Prior to 1958 season: In an unusual turn of events for a World Series champion, Braves' manager, This page was last edited on 7 November 2022, at 13:16. Racial integration had begun to make inroads throughout the Braves organization.71. Braves Shift Mass Farm Base, The Sporting News, 3 March 1954, 22. Southerners rejected integration and wanted to rescind earlier efforts at integration.84, Bill Lucass story of barracks life suggests a darker side. "I'd take on the other third baseman . Coaches Top 30 Prospects Front Office Broadcasters Trainee Program. - Teams The 1914 "Miracle" Boston Braves and the 1995 Atlanta squad are both rather . Sell Sheets / Ads | Telephone conversation with Roland Hemond, 5 February 2010. 114. - Videos During the first three weeks, the routine included afternoon in-house games or occasional games against teams from other organizations training in Georgia. (COURTESY OF JOE BALLENTINE), Today, the Waycross camp is no more. . The 1957 Milwaukee Braves The New York Yankees again won the American League, hence the two teams faced off against each other again in the World Series. 38. . Single Game Tickets A-List Season . One year their quarters were next door to Gautreaus hospitality room. Telephone conversation with Roland Hemond, 5 February 2010. ORee with McKinley, The Autobiography of Willie ORee, 41. (COURTESY OF DANIEL PAPILLON), In the larger world outside the camp and beyond the team, there was little the club could do to shield its players from the prejudices surrounding them. Bill Nowlin, Roland Hemond, in The Baseball Biography Project, SABR. Cronkite School at ASU I realized, wrote Jordan, that not only would I be noticed but my every move would be watched.68, George McQuinn and Sibby Sisti experience the Carnaval de Qubec with Bonhomme Carnaval, circa 1955. update=copyright.getFullYear(); Although Jackie Robinson had broken through baseballs color barrier in 1946 with the Montreal Royals, most clubs were still wrestling with this new reality a decade later. Daily Times-News (Burlington, N.C.), 14 February 57, 1. Roland Hemond is in the front, second from left, and Doc Gautreau is in the second row over Rolands left shoulder. 74. 103. When Willie ORee tried out with the Braves in 1956, the local scout who signed him put him on an airplane to Atlanta, but from there ORee was on his own. Rather than follow the road, he tried a shortcut through the woods. Please use the Site Contact Form. It was a time of real personalities, he adds, personalities such as Doc Gautreau and Donald Davidson, the Braves travelling secretary.81, However, by the time Willie ORee was flown down from Canada in 1956 to show his stuff, the barracks had become segregated. titles that well be adding to the SABR Digital Library. He had joined the Braves organization with Hartford in 1951, and after a brief stopover with the Boston club, he was appointed assistant farm director. - Hall of Famers 56. Writing about racial taunts in the Sally League, Aaron said, We [he and Horace Garner] were both accustomed to it, being from the South, but Felix never heard that sort of thing growing up in Puerto Rico. 100. He had thought he was caught in a riot and it took a sedative to quiet him.94, Aaron saw firsthand how this problem affected his Jacksonville teammate Felix Mantilla. 18. The Savannah Indians in the Sally League also began the year with two black players on their roster. Having trouble downloading e-books to your Kindle, Nook, Sony Reader or iPad? Milwaukee fans inherited an array of heroes to worship. Girls from the local high school and other young women, drawn by the mystery of burnished strangers from afar, were regulars as well. Id like to be home with my mother now. So I went to John Mullen and said, Give me my release. Fans packed the grandstand and cheered every move by anyone in a Braves uniform. We have built four fine practice diamonds at Waycross and our housing for the kids sent there to work out is one of the finest anywhere. 43 Willie ORee, a young black man from Canada who earned a brief tryout at Waycross before ultimately making his mark in hockey, concurred. Phone: 602.496.1460 They will suck you dry and haul you off like a vampire.. You had hundreds of guys in camp, recalled Aaron, guys with numbers on their back like 195Fand nobody knew where they were headed.64, Nobody, that is, except for those whose names appeared on the dreaded pink sheet, the one cryptically headed, Will the players listed below please report to [named executives] office before nine oclock this morning.65 These players were about to receive their unconditional release. Both brothers played in Quebec, though during different years. We select a 28-player roster of the greatest Atlanta Braves, including the Boston Braves and the Milwaukee Braves. 47. Charles Betthauser, Bigotry Is Bad for Business: The Desegregation of Spring Training Camps in the Minnesota Twins Organization, 19601964, thesis, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, 2007, 2, http://minds.wisconsin.edu/handle/1793/23504. French helped me earlier in my career with some of the young French players, like Claude Raymond and Georges Maranda and Ron Pich. 82. Cronkite School at ASU Louis J. Fusk, Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph, 15 April 1955. And with that, sans bang and drawing barely a whimper, an epoch drew to an end. ISBN (e-book) 978-1-933599-72-4, $9.99, You talk about destiny, well, you cant rule that out. World Series Champions (2nd championship) Scored 4.98 RPG (1st) Allowed 3.95 RPG (2nd) Team & Player Stats Roster Schedule & Results Splits. var pfHeaderImgUrl = '';var pfHeaderTagline = '';var pfdisableClickToDel = 0;var pfHideImages = 0;var pfImageDisplayStyle = 'right';var pfDisablePDF = 0;var pfDisableEmail = 0;var pfDisablePrint = 0;var pfCustomCSS = 'https://www.baseball-almanac.com/css/print.css';var pfBtVersion='2';(function(){var js,pf;pf=document.createElement('script');pf.type='text/javascript';pf.src='//cdn.printfriendly.com/printfriendly.js';document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(pf)})(); The 1958 Milwaukee Braves played 154 games during the regular season, won 92 games, lost 62 games, and finished in first position. He had begun the 1960 campaign at Bradenton, Florida, with the Louisville Colonels of the Triple-A American Association. Willie ORee with Michael McKinley, The Autobiography of Willie ORee: Hockeys Black Pioneer (Toronto: Somerville House, 2000), 41. Hank Aaron (1953). SABR members will get discounted rates for all Digital Library publications. 117. He was the first African American to wear a Boston uniform for a major-league team. Perinis decision to move the Braves to Wisconsin rested on three factors: attendance in Boston, in competition with the Red Sox, was sparse; Fred Miller, president of the brewery that produced Miller High Life, provided Perini moral support and advertising revenue; and newly-built Milwaukee County Stadium, which offered parking for nearly 10,000 cars, was ready to receive a big-league tenant. Home plate on each diamond sat about 30 yards from the rotunda, from whose top scouts and managers could watch any player in any game. There is one no-hitter which the team allowed one run, thrown by Vic Willis in 1899. The outfield fences marked the beginning of the swamp,30 although in the early years there were just dirt piles out there that served as fences.31 Says Hemond, It was an outstanding facility. There was something quite humbling about wearing a shirt with 299 on its back, said Jordan.57, The real work started after breakfast. I was taking the place of an American kid.103, Quebec lads at Waycross with Billy Southworth (1953). Each building was supervised by a manager and a scout. Also, outfielder Bill Bruton came back from his season-ending injury in 1957 to play in 100 games. Checklist | Adoption of the bill, said the Journal, would mean that the Milwaukee Braves minor league training base in Waycross, Ga. is doomed.115 John Mullen was equally unequivocal, insisting that should the bill pass we would transfer our Negro players from Waycross to Jacksonville, Florida, and have them train with our Wichita and Atlanta clubs. Guy Lemieux, A lentrainement des Braves, Lvnement (Qubec), 1953. The Braves repeated as the National League champions, this time by a margin of eight games over the Pittsburgh Pirates. What A Finish! . 1957 - Milwaukee Braves (4) vs. New York Yankees (3) Notes: Lew Burdette pitched three complete-game victories, including two shutouts. Packaging | Segregation was not a factor. 1st in National League. Red Schoendienst played in just 106 games, including many as just a pinch hitter, and it was discovered the next year that he had tuberculosis. For in 1954, all roads around the Waycross camp were indeed surrounded by bushslash pines and sawgrassand were nothing if not long and dusty., To a first-time visitor, the Waycross camp must have seemed remote and forbidding.18 Lurking well beyond the town along the edge of the Okefenokee Swamp, the camps only link to the outside world was a thin tar roadthat eventually snaked through the swamp to the highway that led to Waycross ten miles away.19 Hank Aaron, who attended in 1953, said it was so isolated from the main part of town [that] a team bus took the players into town once a week to do laundry and other needful things.20 Aspiring pitcher Pat Jordan first arrived in the early morning and was enveloped by the low-lying mist [stretching] to the line of trees that marked the beginning of the swamp 100 yards away.21, The training facility actually sat on the site of the former Waycross Air Force Base of World War II vintage, on a piece of land, mostly red clay, one half-mile square and completely surrounded by swamp. - Card Rankings - Collection Summary, Overview | When, for example, infielder Edwin Charles attended spring training in Bradenton, where players were then housed in local hotels, his roommate was Jack Litrell, a white man.75, Similarly, when Aaron played his first year of integrated baseball (which was also his introduction to organized ball) in 1952 with Eau Claire, Wisconsin, of the Northern League, he was named the leagues Rookie of the Year.
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