Let’s see some collections of your local ball players from the town you live in

[whitehse]

My wife and I moved from Wisconsin to a small Pennsylvania town four months ago putting us within 45 minutes of the home of the Little League World Series and the final resting place of Christy Mathewson at Bucknell University As we drove around our new home town yesterday we stumbled on a small park with a well kept Little League field within it. I pulled up closer to see the name of the park and saw it the name of the field was Bressler Field, named for former resident Rube Bressler. I knew that name rung a bell with me not just from the world of card collecting but I just couldn’t place it. A quick Google search reminded me that Mr. Bressler was one of the players interviewed in the awesome Glory Of Their Times book by Laurence Ritter. I had to grab my copy of that book a reread his section which drove me down a rabbit hole of starting to read Glory all over again. I may have to dip my toes into pre-war again and do some collecting of my fellow long resident who is long gone but obviously not forgotten.

I am curious to know if others are collecting players who, though long, used to live in their town.