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Old 09-10-2025, 07:07 AM
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Default For the Smoky Joe Wood fans.....

Any Yale men out there?

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Old 09-10-2025, 08:35 AM
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His interview recorded by Lawrence Ritter and detailed in The Glory of Their Times (get the audio version which was the original interview in it) was one of the better interviews in the book. I have a new appreciation for Smoky Joe Wood after listening to him.
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Old 09-10-2025, 09:39 AM
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What a great piece of film! Wonder if Joe had a sore arm from this. Yale gave him an honorary degree for his coaching career there.
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Old 09-10-2025, 01:40 PM
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Coach Joe Wood 1926



Yale team (not sure of year, late twenties I think based on frosh numerals)



Joe Wood and his three sons, Yale vs Colgate 1941

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Brian remember me if you ever sell that beauty!
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I'm surprised he's not using a screen to pitch batting practice. The batter whizzed a couple line drives just past him.

I, too, became a Smokey Joe Wood fan after reading his wonderful story in "The Glory of their Times." My appreciation for him only increased when, during a trip through the San Juan mountains in Colorado, I stumbled upon Smokey Joe Wood Field in the town of Ouray. It's one of the most stunning settings for a ballpark I've ever seen. It turns out that Joe grew up there.
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Chris: Very neat that you visited Ouray. Per his SABR biography he lived there from around the age of ten to sixteen. There looks to be a ball field in the bottom of this Shorpy photo from 1901. You can see the baselines and the keyhole (as well as a telegraph pole in right field). My guess is that young Joe spent a lot of time there and that it is likely where the namesake ball grounds are today. Its location per Google Maps matches up pretty well.



Bonus pic of Smoky Joe as snapped by photog van Oeyen circa 1910.

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There's a good story of Smokey Joe that starts off with a visit to his gravesite in this month's SABR Deadball Era Research Committee Newsletter (pgs 19-24):
THE BALLAD OF SMOKY JOE by Brendan Latimer
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David,

Love those Smoky Joe pics. Thanks for posting.
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