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Stats
Birth Date: October 13, 1876
Birth Location: Bradford, PA
Death Date: April 1, 1914
Death Location: San Antonio TX, USA
Weight: 196 lb
Height: 6 ft 1 in
Bats: R
Throws: L
Debut Date: September 8, 1897
Final Game Date: August 1, 1910
Years Played: 14
Games Played: 410
At Bats: 1
Runs: 61
Hits: 172
Doubles: 29
Triples: 10
Home Runs: 4
RBIs: 83
Stolen Bases: 6
Base on Balls: 42
Batting Average: 0.161
Position: Pitcher
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E145-Helmar, card #36
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L3-Helmar Cabinet, card #148
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T3-Helmar, card #152
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Helmar Oasis, card #126
Famous Athletes, card #69
H813-4 Boston Garter-Helmar, card #80
Helmar Stamps, card #218
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Rube Waddell: Comic story of picture Most Bold, Egregious Imbecile in Cubs History
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Oral Examination: Testing the Stories of “The Glory of Their Times”
Is everything in this hallmark book as glorious as it seems?
I should have done this piece last year. I like round numbers as much as the next fellow, maybe a little more, and I had a chance at a good one. The Glory of Their Times, the classic book of oral baseball histories compiled and edited by the late Lawrence Ritter, was released in 1966. Last year, 2016, was the golden anniversary of its publication.
It would have been the perfect time to write about this superb book. The problem was, I began my re-reading of it, and noticed the timing element, only in late December. Some kind of 50th anniversary piece seemed in order, but there really wasn’t time to put one together and get it through the pipeline before the calendar turned.
I declined the rush job, and took a little more time to linger over The Glory of Their Times, and all the stories the baseball players inside were telling. As I did so, the skeptic’s voice inside me kept chiming in, wondering “Did it really happen the way he says?”
There is nothing new or particularly disrespectful about such doubts. The first entry in the book, pitcher Rube Marquard, tells some of the best stories in the whole volume. Subsequent research, however, sho