1945 — Albert B. “Happy” Chandler, junior Senator from Kentucky, is elected baseball commissioner by a unanimous vote of the major league club owners. Chandler is elected to a seven-year term and succeeds Kenesaw Mountain Landis, who died in November 1944. 1962 — LA Dodgers pitcher ...
ESCANABA — The Escanaba Eskymos overcame a slow start to defeat the Kingsford Flivvers 11-0 here Wednesday. The Eskymos scored all 11 of their runs in the fourth inning. Lennox Peacock started the scoring with an RBI-single and Cannon Arnt and Max LeDuc each drew a walk to score a run.Alex ...
HERMANSVILLE — Former Detroit Tigers manager Sparky Anderson sometimes said ‘hits don’t hurt you. Walks and errors, those will kill you.’ Powers North Central and Stephenson received a combined 21 free passes in the second game of a baseball doubleheader here Wednesday night. Four ...
Today’s games Golf Norway Invitational at Oak Crest, 10 a.m. Track and field Carney-Nadeau at St. Norbert’s Invitational, 4 p.m. Softball Superior Central at Marquette (DH), 4 p.m. Rapid River at Stephenson (DH), 4 p.m. Felch North Dickinson at Bark River-Harris (DH), 4 ...
ESCANABA — Escanaba senior Cannon Arnt used only 61 pitches for a perfect game as the Eskymos defeated Gladstone 10-0 here Tuesday. That was the best game of his career,” Eskymos coach Scott Hanson said. “To do it against Gladstone is a really big deal and highly impressive and to have ...
GLADSTONE — Sophomore Maggie Karl scaled new heights while helping the Gladstone girls retain their Delta County track and field title here Tuesday. Karl won the pole vault with a school-record leap of 10-2, an inch higher than the previous record by Emily Siebert four years ago. “This is ...