Tag Archives: Sunday baseball
Jimmy Walker
Jimmy Walker (Sportsman. Born, New York, NY, June 19, 1881; died, New York, NY, Nov. 18, 1946.) In a book by Gene Fowler and a subsequent film starring Bob Hope (both entitled Beau James), James John Walker was immortalized as a bon vivant and a trusting politician caught in the vortex of municipal scandals that […]
Bill Rafter
Bill Rafter (Sports editor. Born, Rhinecliff, NY, Sept. 1, 1875; died, Brooklyn, NY, Feb. 13, 1926.) William A. Rafter was unique among the sports editors of the four principal Brooklyn dailies in the first quarter of the 20th century. Rafter, unlike his confreres, was not born in Brooklyn and, even more unusual, was not a […]
