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05-12-2011, 06:03 PM
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Brown's Champion's
Not to disrail Jay's thread but an interesting note about the Brown's Champions series. When the Missouri-Pacific railroad went thru Kansas in the 1880's the workers named towns that sprang up along the track as they went, thru Morris county Kansas where I grew up, we have Bushong, Comiskey and others.
Here is a clip from an oldtime book: "Believe it or not," a succession of Kansas railroad stations were named by a construction contractor after players on the famous St. Louis "Browns," championship baseball team of the 1880's. Each was a station on the Missouri Pacific and one of them was named for "Doc" Bushong, catcher of the team. Here is the line-up that inspired the names of these Kansas towns: first base, Manager Charles Comiskey; second base, Yank Robinson; third base, Arlie Latham; shortstop, Bill Gleason; outfielder, Tip O'Neil; outfielder, Tommy McCarthy; catchers, "Doc" Bushong, Jack Boyle and Jack Milligan; pitchers, Bob Carruthers, Silver King, Dave Fouts, Elton Chamberlain and Nat Hudson. Scott 
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05-12-2011, 06:54 PM
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