Posted in Tar Heelia on February 22, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Even though I currently live in Wake County, I’ve never ventured out to Lizard Lick, a crossroads community in eastern Wake County. I’ve always wanted to say that I’ve been there…or at least through there. Little did I know, however, that I could be magically swished away to Lizard Lick by simply switching on truTV’s [...]
Posted in History, Memorabilia Moment, Tar Heelia, tagged buddy lewis, clarence 'ace' parker, gastonia nc, lou gehrig, luckiest man on the face of the earth, oldest living baseball players, ty cobb, washington senators on February 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
John “Buddy” Lewis, onetime Washington Senators slugger, died last week in his native Gastonia. At 94 Lewis was the 11th oldest living major league baseball player — and the only one whose career had begun before 1936. (Second-oldest: 98-year-old Clarence “Ace” Parker, Duke’s two-sport star.) Lewis’s chronic weakness was fielding. Before the Senators exiled him [...]
