The Sad Story of ALABAMA PITTS 
At 5 a.m. on June 7, he was lying in Valdese General Hospital, a victim of a knifing by Newland LeFevers - or, perhaps, of his own stubbornness. When Pitts died on that Saturday morning, a fascinating chapter in baseball history was finally closed. But baseball was never the same […]

Reminiscences of Rube Waddell originally appeared in the Jan 1914 issue of “Baseball Magazine” A facinating account of the Great Hall of Fame pitcher’s career written only months before his death
 

Rube Waddell’s obit New York Times April 2nd 1914
 

The “Rookies” Contemporary Superstars Then and Now From the Ralph Winnie Collection By Jim Stinson
Last week a large box of autographs arrived in the mail. It was from Ralph Winnie’s daughter.  Ralph passed away in 2004 after a long battle with cancer. In the mid 1980’s Ralph and I developed a running correspondence and spoke regularly by phone. He […]

ADVENTURES IN AUTOGRAPHS by Jim Stinson
How I Almost Became Best Friends With the Greatest Hitter of All Time
It was 1969 and I was 13 years old. Islamorada Florida was part of a small cluster of islands that made up the Florida Keys. About a 45 minute drive from Miami across a series of narrow bridges […]