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[MartyFromCANADA]

Nice article John and Jon.

I love your cabinet photo Jon.

[Jcfowler6]

Originally Posted by MartyFromCANADA

Nice article John and Jon.

I love your cabinet photo Jon.

Thanks Marty. Lots of fun to research it.


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[Mark]

Thanks to John and Jon for linking to those articles. I haven't been looking at Pirates Prospects for awhile--just too despressed. But these articles got my spirits up, and I read lots of other stuff on that excellent site. Highly recommended to anyone with Pirate interests.

[z28jd]

Thanks, Mark. There are a ton of free articles that people here would like because they deal with vintage players. I'd recommend the two articles looking at the time Dazzy Vance and Red Faber spent with the Pirates. It was basically a day-by-day look at both of them with rare photos of them with the Pirates. I had fun researching both of them

Vance: https://www.piratesprospects.com/202...zzy-vance.html

Faber: https://piratesprospects.com/2020/05...red-faber.html

I put up our 25th Card of the Day article today (linked in the article, all free, but not all are vintage), Bill Mazeroski's rookie: https://www.piratesprospects.com/202...mazeroski.html

[RCMcKenzie]

I'm not a "writer", but I did major in English at Tulane in the 80's. Do your readers want to hear about my unfinished Abner Dalrymple pose run? 250 words or less, double-spaced. Items I read from wikipedia type sources like..."1st batter given an intentional walk, with the bases loaded?"

[z28jd]

Originally Posted by RCMcKenzie

I'm not a "writer", but I did major in English at Tulane in the 80's. Do your readers want to hear about my unfinished Abner Dalrymple pose run? 250 words or less, double-spaced. Items I read from wikipedia type sources like..."1st batter given an intentional walk, with the bases loaded?"

Honestly, it doesn't have to be all facts about him. I'm also looking for stories about why people collected certain cards or memorabilia. I can write Pirates history articles all day everyday if that's all I needed, but with contributions I'm looking for something different from the articles.

Dalrymple was the first batter for the Alleghenys in the National League, so he has some history behind him. That's an automatic hook, so it's about as much of a history intro that he needs before you get into the collection part of the article.

[Hot Springs Bathers]

Jon- Great article and an even better story of family and life. Good job!