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Lunch With Books: Wheeling's Greatest Team - the 1933 Stogies

October 11, 2016
12:00pm - 12:00pm

Lunch With Books: Wheeling's Greatest Team - the 1933 Stogies

Willliam Akin, author of West Virginia Baseball: A History, 1865-2000 and The Middle Atlantic League, 1925-1952: A Baseball History, will discuss “Wheeling's Greatest Team: The 1933 Stogies.”

In 1933, the Stogies were revived by the New York Yankees and George Weiss. The team went on to win a pennant with six future major league players on its roster, including batters John Aloysius “Buddy” Hackett and Jimmy Hitchcock, and ace pitchers Kemp Wicker and Joe Vitelli.

William E. Akin is professor emeritus of history from Ursinus College. His articles have appeared in The Historian, American Quarterly and American Historical Review. He lives in Collegeville, Pennsylvania.

Read more about early Baseball in Wheeling.


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