Category: St. Petersburg
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Coffee Pot Ballpark Part 1
St. Pete Needs Quality Baseball The first article in the Coffee Pot series was intended to mark the beginning of the piece. Circumstances took me back a bit in history and I found some fascinating information relating to St. Pete’s quest for Spring Training baseball. This information comes primarily from the archives of the St.…
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Origins of the Florida State Negro Baseball League (FSNBL)
The Florida State Negro Baseball League was the top tier of negro baseball in Florida in terms of play and producing talent for higher level teams, particularly the Negro major leagues. It was founded, disintegrated and reformed over the time period from 1932 until around 1953 after which while the league still existed it lost…
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Chronicler of Negro Baseball in Florida
E. H. “Eugene” or “Gene McLin” This article uses the term “Negro” in order to stay consistent with the times and with McLin’s own words. Little is known of “Negro Baseball” of any kind in Florida. Due to a dearth of Negro newspapers in Florida there was seldom coverage of negro happenings that did not…
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“Fast Baseball”
A term from the early years In researching the early days of baseball in St. Pete, two “must haves” were made clear; a downtown ballpark and fast baseball. I saw the term “fast baseball” from 1902 and into the 20’s, so I Googled. All of those searches included AI-generated ones talked about a hard pitch…