By Harlan Pritchard, Brooklyn Eagle Staff BROOKLYN, April 6 — The grand pastime resumes this afternoon as the champion Whales, the pride of Brooklyn and the Legacy Baseball League’s top club, take the field at Bromwich Park to open their campaign for a second straight Legacy Cup. Under the expert guidance of their legendary skipper,…
Michael Monroe, owner of the Richmond Rifles, called his luxurious train car the “Big Sorrel.” Preston found that distasteful, even if he never liked Stonewall Jackson or his ugly god damned horse. He only saw Jackson once, riding around like a fool in the middle of some swamp while his soldiers trudged barefoot across Massaponax…
Karl and Walther Boeselager walked through North Philadelphia along Jefferson Street. It was noisy as the three-story buildings surrounding the road trapped the sounds of horse-drawn carts on cobblestone and the chatter of hundreds of people who had just finished their shifts or came from school. The Boeselagers arrived at Jefferson Street Grounds and bought…