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GSMC Baseball Podcast
"baxter springs" Discussed on GSMC Baseball Podcast
"In addition compared to other the other four center fielders on the all century team he had the lowest career rate of grounding into double plays and he had the highest world series on base percentage and ruled. Series slugging percentage. He's also had a excellent nine eighty four. Fielding percentage will playing center field and mickey mantles able to hit for both average and power especially kate measure. Long home runs in sir. Eight eight termed that its origin in a play by play caller reacting to one of mickey mantles eighteen fifty three home runs mickey mantle. Hit five hundred and thirty. Six career home runs. Hit three hundred or over three hundred ten or more times and is a career leader tied with jim. Thome in walk off home runs. He had thirteen career career. Walk off home runs. Twelve which came in the regular season in one was in. The postseason is the only player in history to hit one hundred fifty home runs from both sides of the plate. Maki mail is sixteenth. All time in home runs prep bat. He ranks seventeenth in on base percentage. He was saved three out of four times. He attempted to steal a base. He won the mvp award. Three times came in second three times and came within nine votes of winning five times mickey mantle won the triple crown in one thousand nine hundred eighty six when he led all major league baseball in 'em in average with a three fifty three average to fifty two home runs and one hundred and thirty. Rbi he later wrote in a in a book my favorite summer in nineteen fifty-six about his best year in baseball it was an all star for sixteen seasons splitting sixteen of the twenty all star games. That were played during his career. You as an american league ale or mvp three times. Like i said a gold glove winner wants and he appeared in twelve world series winning seven and he holds a world series record for most home runs. Rbi's extra-base hits runs walks and total bases despite his accolades. Though mickey mantles private life was plagued with tolman tragedy including a well-publicized bout with alcoholism that would eventually lead to his death from liver cancer in august of nineteen ninety five but in his early years like i was saying he was born on october twentieth. Nineteen thirty one Oklahoma it was the son of lavelle richards. Mansell and elvin charles mutt mantle. Us at least partially english ancestry. His great grandfather. George mantle left brier brierley hill in england's black county in eighteen forty eight mutt named his son in honor of mickey cochrane a hall of fame catcher leader in his life mickey mantle express relief that his father had not known cochran's true name because he would have hated to have been named gordon mantle. Spoke warmly of his father and said that he was the bravest man he ever knew quote novoye loved his father more he said mansa wood bat left against his right handed pitching father and then he would bat right handed against his grandfather. Charles manson who pitched to him left handed. His grandfather died at the age of sixty in nineteen forty four and his father died of hodgkin's disease at the age of forty on may seventh nineteen fifty two. When mantle is four years old. His family moved to nearby town of commerce oklahoma where his father worked in lead and zinc might minds. Excuse me as a teenager make emmanuel rooted for the saint louis cardinals in addition dues. I love baseball. Minot was wasn't all round athlete. Ecommerce high school playing basketball as well as football played half back in. Oklahoma offered him a football scholarship. His football playing nearly ended his athletic career though in his sophomore year. He was kicked in the shin in a practice game in he developed a He developed something called o n. It's ostos it's osteo Osteomyelitis which is an infection of the bone symptoms include pain in specific bone with overlying redness fever and weakness long bones of arms and legs are most commonly involved in children the femur and humerus will feet and spines are most likely for elderly or older people. But it's a crippling disease. That was just incurable. Or was incurable. Just a few years earlier in his left ankle males parents drove him at midnights oklahoma city oklahoma where he was treated at the children's hospital with the newly available penicillin which reduced the infection and saved his leg from amputation. Middle begin playing professional baseball in kansas with the semi pro. Baxter springs whiz kids in nineteen forty eight iki scout. Tom green wade came to baxter springs to watch mantle's teammate. Third baseman will willard billie johnson. During the game mental hit.
The Kitchen Sisters Present
"baxter springs" Discussed on The Kitchen Sisters Present
"It's been waken hayes with road win. Riem cowboy drive clean texas. There was one coast mercy. And they're they're dying hang lives here. on how. how wide and how slighted that. Now the turks not going have tire somebody to drive through once in that. So i can. I don't notice it as long if i'm in here work and we get out in drive through town bed. I'm sure people would have been here for a long time. Heartbreaking nurse simpson tune now. My granddad built for this old highway with a team of mules. Wouldn't it team of mules dirt back in the twenties old route. Sixty six one. He built gary mcmillan loops berg missouri. My daughter down. There is the fifth generation on this farm and the old home is down here. Monocle moved off it to phoenix and I guess i ain't got enough sense to get away from her. Do something different. Get down up. I know native fed. Lindsey little little towns. You know he can't even by the head a little grocery store upper. It finally allow next town. Here's katie's one. After that sam boy and then the next one after this ludlow one after that's newberry springs and the one act. Let's barstool levi. Owns a texaco station. In essex california in the mojave desert the child died just went from three hundred down to maybe ten twelve people like two three tokes hundred twenty nine pieces of junk out there people just burner cars up coming up out of needles and abandon them. How we patrol has a storm in summertime. We usually one two three four eight ten today. Eighty three capri. What's left of it will. Sixty six mainstream of america won the sixty six. Yes the greyhound station in baxter springs kansas on amer's dolly trimble and i've been there agent for forty nine years see. I used to have twenty five buses a day through here when you put the term god. Pnc that cutoff. Though sixty six say used to come through all the towns uh pitcher commerce and all land now. They miss them. So how many buses a day stop here scott to now. That's what you do between buses. Well down hook john new soap operas another world. Three one ally gotten baronne weatherford oklahoma. What we're located about seventy five miles due west of oklahoma city and it's rotten harder. God's country reinhard short grass but the cavs out there is nothing prettier and a little war. What base gaffe. Drop it on graham. We were lucky enough to have a real good bypass. i think. That's a big key to it where you do get good entrance exiting the town and i think that makes a lot of different. You know whether you're town lives or dies. 'cause man there's a lot of traffic come in on time singer reds in my pocket on my matches all got wet..
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"baxter springs" Discussed on The Kitchen Sisters Present
"I've been on a road. Seventeen years and i've been the entire route sixty six you know. They used to have a A tv show called route. Sixty six. I used to watch those two guys that used to travel into carpet that similar the way we live just about this will travel to town and we're working while we play western music and we do everything from for all line to mona lost. Her smile new new thing on the market. I've gotta song that i've written one. Call a standing ovation. It pretty well. puts my outlook on things you know for the win worst-performing and the sun to stage and the wind later sweet melody so i gave a standing ovation to the wonders of god while mother nature entertain me mean. It's that's the it is. And i've got three standing ovations from the song you know from the public and i've had people even tell me that they've listened to the song enough that they stopped littering. The highways guidebook to highway sixty six mile by mile. Complete handbook on how to get most fun from your trip in nineteen forty-six jack rittenhouse published. The first and only travel guide to highway. Sixty six price one dollar. When i wrote the book. I anticipated that after the war after world war. Two there'd be a second big wave going west over sixty six. The first big one was probably the grapes of wrath people but with travel restricted during the war. People couldn't go fast and there were so many boys from all over the eastern part of the country that were stationed in california during the war. And i knew a lot of those fellows would want to go to california. Live act through a traffic on no way small tips. That might mean big comforts. Check your equipment. Be sure you have your auto jack one of those war surplus foxhole. Shovels may come in very handy for chilly nights early mornings. You might find a camp blanket or auto useful. It comes in handy if you find inadequate bedding in a tourist cabin anytime you see. Several huge trucks parked outside or roadside cafe. You can usually be assured of excellent coffee for these men who make long bribes nowhere stop. Sixty six was really something to travel very dangerous. Highway narrow wrecks were terrible. Many small towns had speed traps and they were constantly getting tourists there other than dangerous. It was beautiful. You went through every valley. Your you could stop at nearly any house and they're tgi if up until late fifties. If you had any trouble somebody would always stop and pull you to the next down or i. It was a forty nine fifty three chevrolet four door. Green and white beauty was a fifty five. Chevrolet station wagon red and white station wagon. Greg gaining grew up in chicago and spent most of his boyhood summers in a chevrolet taking family vacations along route. Sixty six we would get up early. We'd pack the carpet. Still be dark takeoff for our heaven on earth spot from night. Which was the mickey mantle. Holiday inn in joplin missouri. Right there on route. Sixty six was a shrine for my brother. And i the whole motif. The motel had to deal with. Mickey mantles career with the yankees. I always just assumed that he actually made. He was born in the parking lot of this motel. We had my trophies all around the walls and we had one room that was called the dugout. which was the lounge mickey mantle. All the sweets were named after Teammates of mine. Like mickey mantle. Sweet was the presidential suite or the nicest one and we had a yogi berra. Sweet and billy martin sweet and the whitey ford sweet base mickey mantle at bat for the counter one almost ranks. Here's the pitch mantle swings. There's a tremendous drive going into being going over the over the sign in the yard across the street. I guess probably the most important thing there to me is. I started playing for the baxter springs. Whiz kids And their ballpark was right on. I weigh sixty six and tom greenway. Who was a yankee scout was driving by there. One day when we're having a game and he stopped to watch the game and i hit three home runs All three.
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"baxter springs" Discussed on The Kitchen Sisters Present
"From the first days we started working together. And i drove around a lot to gals in one thousand nine hundred seventy two green dotson roaming the tri county area like buzzing todd minus the corvette through santa cruz monterey and san benito counties in california we were doing oral histories and recording. Everybody who moved cowboys and fishermen farmworkers italian grandmothers. This was in the day of cassettes and as we drove around we always talked about how great it would be to document the roads inside roads. We were travelling so people could just pop in a cassette and listen to the people around them as they drove on through. We never quite pulled off that cassette idea on a large scale but when davy moved east for a while we decided to try the idea out on route sixty six. She'd be driving a lot so that was the start. It was the end of the road. It was the last days surf route. Sixty six as we were traveling. I mean just trying to follow it at that. Point was a you know you drive down. Affronted tro that was the old highway. And then it would just bottom out. And there'd be broken asphalt or cactus. So we're trying to get icon of people from each stretch of the road and mickey mantle grew up on route sixty six. He played baseball team. Known as the baxter springs with kids the scout for the yankees with dr along route. Sixty six looking for up and coming ballplayers and manel hits this home. Run across the highway. And that's part of how he was spotted. So we're going. where can we find mickey mantle. We started to kind sniff around joplin missouri. The mickey mantle holiday inn. And someone said. Oh yeah there's a golf tournament going. On and mickey mantle. One of his sons. Were playing so. I just called the golf course. Said ma'am please speak to mr mantle. Suddenly there was mickey mantle on the telephone. We explain the story to him. And what we're doing in route sixty six and agrees to meet us and poor mickey. He could hardly walk by that time has knees. Were just blown out. Sorta bandy leg walks up one flight of stairs gets in the room. He just gives me a look and he just goes hallo. Did you get my phone number. And they had a temper. It was no joy mud villain that moment today on the kitchen. Sisters present route sixty six. The mother.
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Route 66, the Mother Road
"From the first days we started working together. And i drove around a lot to gals in one thousand nine hundred seventy two green dotson roaming the tri county area like buzzing todd minus the corvette through santa cruz monterey and san benito counties in california we were doing oral histories and recording. Everybody who moved cowboys and fishermen farmworkers italian grandmothers. This was in the day of cassettes and as we drove around we always talked about how great it would be to document the roads inside roads. We were travelling so people could just pop in a cassette and listen to the people around them as they drove on through. We never quite pulled off that cassette idea on a large scale but when davy moved east for a while we decided to try the idea out on route sixty six. She'd be driving a lot so that was the start. It was the end of the road. It was the last days surf route. Sixty six as we were traveling. I mean just trying to follow it at that. Point was a you know you drive down. Affronted tro that was the old highway. And then it would just bottom out. And there'd be broken asphalt or cactus. So we're trying to get icon of people from each stretch of the road and mickey mantle grew up on route sixty six. He played baseball team. Known as the baxter springs with kids the scout for the yankees with dr along route. Sixty six looking for up and coming ballplayers and manel hits this home. Run across the highway. And that's part of how he was spotted. So we're going. where can we find mickey mantle. We started to kind sniff around joplin missouri. The mickey mantle holiday inn. And someone said. Oh yeah there's a golf tournament going. On and mickey mantle. One of his sons. Were playing so. I just called the golf course. Said ma'am please speak to mr mantle. Suddenly there was mickey mantle on the telephone. We explain the story to him. And what we're doing in route sixty six and agrees to meet us and poor mickey. He could hardly walk by that time has knees. Were just blown out. Sorta bandy leg walks up one flight of stairs gets in the room. He just gives me a look and he just goes hallo. Did you get my phone number.
KTOK
"baxter springs" Discussed on KTOK
"Tails. Of Oklahoma outlaws. And spooky stories since the early 19 nineties In 1995, he published his first book, Mysterious Oklahoma, now in its 14th printing. How about that? Since then, he has published for more non fiction books about the sooner state more mysterious Oklahoma Oklahoma outlaw tales, Oklahoma's outlaws spooky stories and all around folklore and, most recently, Edmund and Guthrie. Little off the tracks, the lesser known history of to Oklahoma towns. For the last five years, he has been a contributing writer for Edmund Life and Leisure and has written many Syria's of articles for the paper about Prohibition. And depression error. Gangsters. A native of Oklahoma graduated from Bishop McGinnis High School and University of Central Oklahoma. He joins me this evening because he is so fun to talk to about these outlaws. So David a Ferris. Welcome to 1000. Katie. Okay, tell me about your most recent book. If you would Glenn. Thank you so much for having me back on your program. This is a quite an honor. My most recent book that is in it's in play right now. I'm just getting this together. It is about the Barker Gang. And if I may, I read just a brief introduction. As far as you know, brevity, being the soul of wit, As far as having things in front of me, just sort of status set the stage as far as we're getting ready to discuss. The Barker Brothers from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Herman Lloyd, Doc and Fred Me describe this hillbillies, habitual criminals and a lot of other less flattering for Jordan's. That would be equally accurate. There was nothing glamorous about their lives of deeds. They were violent, belligerent people void of social and moral values who had no ambition other than to steal. As a result, their lives were cut short by violence. Bread and Doc were able to evolve from murderous stickup man to professional career criminals with ties to major organized crime syndicates. Along with Fred's former cell mate Alvin Karpis, also known as old creepy. Their gang was responsible for a wave of robberies and violence across America during the Great Depression. And if I could jump in here I love the working title you shared with me. Barker Boys Mean brothers from Tulsa and their ma on their mom s O. Well, I kind of let the cat out of the bag with that introduction. I was first going to allude to a country cemetery and Welsh, Oklahoma. Williams Timber Hills Cemetery. And there are four members of the family who were laid to rest. The husband, wife and two of the four sons and the mother's plot is March with her name. I'm sorry. Donnie, Arizona, Clark or Ma, also known as Kate. She was born. Approximately 18 73 record. Keeping in the Ozark Mountains really wasn't a priority at that time. And she married a man 10 years. Her senior named George Barker and then buried next to them is Herman Barker, their oldest and Fred Barker, their youngest. And yes, this was the same family from which the Barker gang, um was from There are Well, so they were married. That is George and Cates and time around 18 91. And they had sent Herrmann and 18 93 Lloyd 18 95 Arthur Arthur, or doctors He was known 18 99 and then finally, Fred by 1902. There are some words that we use a lot of words and phrases and we don't really think about it when there's two in regard to the story that really have new meaning to me, and one of these words is poverty. A lot of people don't know what poverty is. Poverty now usually means you have Ah, house food, shoes, electricity, maybe a car. Poverty 100 years ago was just there was just nothing and the poverty that consumed so many of these people growing up in this unimaginable certainly by our standards. And there's a phrase that phrase is Boom town. A lot of people don't know what a boom town is. If you can imagine area there's nothing And then within a month or two months is a community of the 1000. Plus people, you know, dirty, scholarly, everyone living together. And of course, these workers. They have their Children. They have their families with, um When you have a boom town you have. Maybe it's ah, gold. Or maybe it's silver. Maybe it's petroleum, but there's also lead mines. One of the most dangerous contaminants that we have led a lead mine Boom town. There was a town of pitcher Oklahoma that shut down. That's where I'd lead. Mine was formerly, but the EPA shut it down. The Barker family. When the boys were very young. Lived in not one but two lead mine boom towns. First was a war a Missouri and second this Web city. And when you talk about contamination, the air, the soil the water. If he touched money was contaminated by lead. And here you had four young Children in their cognitive stages of development exposed to these toxic conditions, and I didn't realize this until I learned this that this may have had a Something to do with their criminal behavior. A lot of criminals suffer from an inability regarding impulse control. So this man might have played a major role as far as their development. So finally, by 1912. The family moves to another boom town that of Tulsa, Oklahoma. This being a petroleum boom town. But it was the same circumstances dirty poor people and you have these poor Children running the streets, nothing to do no education, they form their gangs. The area where the Barker gang lived. There was a group calling themselves the Central Park Gang. And they were just a bunch of young hoodlums and from the simple part gang sprang future public enemies. So I mean quite an accomplishment, but they would break into buildings like rob cars. Now by 1920. They were basically a crime wave. Brothers could best be described as, like serial burglar cereals. They just love to steal. 1920. Herman and Lloyd had pretty much taken off their you know, close to 20, and that left Doc and Fred at home. Now Lloyd was the first brother to really get in trouble and T o several long term. Most of the crimes committed by the boys for state crimes. But brother Lloyd, June 14th 1921. Robbed a mail car with his gang and Baxter Springs, Kansas. And mail is a federal crime. As a result, he was sent to the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas, for 25 years. So we're not going to hear much about Lord he was pretty much removed from the family business. So next in line was Doc. He was the first bird would be charged with murder. August 25th 1921. He had another Central park gang member, Volney Davis. We're robbing a construction side at the ST Johns Hospital. It was a 21st and Utica until sir. And the next morning there was 74 year old night watchman. Thomas Cheryl found dead He'd been shot twice by two different guns, so each robber shot him once. So at the young age of 22 Doc Barker of only Davis or both. Sentenced to life, the state penitentiary McAlister, Oklahoma, and that should have been it. We should have heard anything else from them. But they just get to cool their heels for a while. Well, this takes us back to, um I'm sorry. This takes us back to Herman Herman was a crime wave. He was a walking crime way everywhere that he went, and he was a member of these various burglary gangs. He was when he was 22 years old. He was arrested in Missouri and he was sentenced to 40 years in the state Penitentiary. This didn't serve in the soup wandered away. Then hands up, and he just travels all over the place. He he shows up in Montana. He gets arrested, but he's arrested under his alias, so he gets a few years he is released. He goes to Minnesota. He gets arrested again serves a few years. Well, he comes back to Tulsa. And there was what was known as the UM Barker Terrel Inman Gang or the Gang of Eight, and they were located primarily in the area of Miami, Oklahoma and Yeah, I said Miami That gave them access to the far Northeast corner to the sooner state, Kansas, Arkansas, Missouri, and they were well known as far as their M O. A store that had valuable merchandise and are safe. They breaking through the wall or through the floor to go through the ceiling, and that was how they would gain access. And, uh, they were prolific..
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Remains of sailor killed in Pearl Harbor returned home
"The remains of one of the U. S sailors killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor Back on December 7th of 1941 Return home Navy Fireman First class Hadley. He even was just 23 when he was on the USS West Virginia when torpedoes and bombs destroyed the battleship. His remains were identified last year after his two remaining brother has provided DNA samples to aid in a match. Navy personnel recovered the remains of at least 66 crewmen from the USS West Virginia. Memorial services set for this weekend in his hometown of Baxter Springs, Kansas.