Groveville Baseball - 1920

Front Row, kneeling, Charles Stackhouse ~ Fred Luke ~ Len Purdy ~ Everett Sutts ~ Charles Bennett ~ Cap Cole ~ Archie "Arch" Middleton ~ Charles "Pud" McClure ~ Bat Boy Charles "Dusty" McClure.

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2nd Row, Standing, Harry Inman ~ Alfred McClure ~ William "Bill" Tantum ~ Wilbur Carey ~ Raymond "Ray" Danley ~ Ray "Bick" McClure ~ Walt McCabe ~ Unknown. Gentleman in the background with tie is Ed Berkeheiser.

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If you ever saw he movie "Field of Dreams, with Kevin Costner, these men look like they walked out of the movie with these uniforms.

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This is the Groveville Baseball Team, 1920, this had nothing to do with the fire company, this was made up from the people of Groveville. The top photo is the complete photo, the bottom has been cropped to show the men better.

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This was taken on Main Street, on the right side leaving Groveville, where it bends to the right, past the Cemetery entrance. The building on the right is a portion of the barn owned by the Bowers family, at the time this was the last house on Main Street. The house in the background was the house last owned by Mina Shelton.

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This is where the town Baseball Field was located and was know to all as the Peach Orchard, for obvious reasons at the time.

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It is hard to believe but at this time between this point in Groveville and the town of Crosswicks there was nothing but fields and woods and two farms.

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Thanks to Joan McClure for finding this in her collection for me. Her husband, Pud, is on the right, next to the dog.