Illinois
Kentucky
Ballou, Win StudioGaryC
Pennsylvania
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lattimer_massacre 1897-9-10 at Hazleton - aprox 20 striking mine workers killed. "The massacre was a turning point in the history of the United Mine Workers (UMW).
MLB:
Daubert, Jake BR "In some ways, Jake Daubert never left the coal mines. He carried reminders on his hands. “Look at these hands,” he once said to a reporter. “See those black marks? That’s from mining, and even now, when I look at them, I sometimes . . . fear that all my success is a dream and that I will wake up in the darkness of the mines again.”" HOF page w/ vg pic his brother Calvin died in a mining accident
Daubert, Jake BR "In some ways, Jake Daubert never left the coal mines. He carried reminders on his hands. “Look at these hands,” he once said to a reporter. “See those black marks? That’s from mining, and even now, when I look at them, I sometimes . . . fear that all my success is a dream and that I will wake up in the darkness of the mines again.”" HOF page w/ vg pic his brother Calvin died in a mining accident
"It was only yesterday that I thought I would always be a coal miner. I never expected to be anything else . . . . It doesn’t seem right that I should be so fortunate . . . . I can’t help feeling it will all slip away from me some day and that I shall finish my life where I started: in the coal mines."
Grove, Lefty https://www.ourbrickwalls.com/subpageMiner-Grove.html father was a miner
From Baseball When The Grass Was Real:
"I never graduated from high school, you know. There were too many kids in the family -- four boys and three girls - and I had to go to work. My dad was a coal miner. Didn't get much in those days for digging coal; about half a buck a ton. All my brothers were coal miners. Me too. For two weeks. That was in 1916. My brother had sprained his ankle, and I took his place for a couple of weeks. I helped load around fifteen ton a coal a day, and at half a dollar a ton you can figure out what I made. Not a heck of a lot. The last day, when I knew my brother was going to come back the next week, I said to my father, "Dad, I didn't put that coal in here, and I hope I don't have to take no more of her out."
I never went back. That was it...
Neither of my parents had any objections [at my signing with Martinsburg]. My father thought it was great, me becoming a ballplayer. As long as I was getting paid. And I was getting a lot more playing baseball than they paid in the mines. My dad was a baseball fan, though he hardly got to see any baseball. Didn't have much time. Hardly ever saw daylight. In those days the miners went to work when it was dark and came back when it was dark. They worked ten, eleven hours a day in the mines. Not much chance to see ball games, except on Sundays."
Kazak, Eddie BR StudioGaryC multiple mining injuries as teen
"his family relied on his paycheck to stay afloat. At his current job he was making $50 every two weeks; a pro contract would mean $75 a month and that only lasted six months. Eddie went to his father for advice, to which his pop immediately said, “Take anything, son, to get out of the mines.”
McFadden, Barney SABR bio BR
McFadden, Barney SABR bio BR
http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1370 some severe inaccuracies
"Coalfield baseball teams withered away as company towns, company stores, and company houses and churches began disappearing after World War II. Mining machines slashed the coal work force statewide. From a high of 141,000 miners in 1947, there were only 45,000 miners in West Virginia in 1969 and just 16,000 in 2002. Coal towns where 3,000 people had lived in the early 1940s dropped to 400 or 500 people by the early 1960s, most of them retired"
1937-4-17 Cunard, of the United Mine Workers League - won 20 straight in 1934 & championship.
"Coalfield baseball teams withered away as company towns, company stores, and company houses and churches began disappearing after World War II. Mining machines slashed the coal work force statewide. From a high of 141,000 miners in 1947, there were only 45,000 miners in West Virginia in 1969 and just 16,000 in 2002. Coal towns where 3,000 people had lived in the early 1940s dropped to 400 or 500 people by the early 1960s, most of them retired"
1937-4-17 Cunard, of the United Mine Workers League - won 20 straight in 1934 & championship.
Charles "Stubby" Seay
Lewis, Grover BLK (Homestead Grays, 1928) ". Born in 1903 into an Alabama mining family, Lewis had played outfield for all-Black coalfield teams in Alabama and in Fairmont, on his way up to Homestead near Pittsburgh. When a broken ankle cut his professional career short, he returned to West Virginia to work in the mines, and to play for and manage the Raleigh Clippers. " - from 2nd over-all link
Lewis, Grover BLK (Homestead Grays, 1928) ". Born in 1903 into an Alabama mining family, Lewis had played outfield for all-Black coalfield teams in Alabama and in Fairmont, on his way up to Homestead near Pittsburgh. When a broken ankle cut his professional career short, he returned to West Virginia to work in the mines, and to play for and manage the Raleigh Clippers. " - from 2nd over-all link
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