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Baseball, Part II
by Charles R. Nichols

This part of the Baseball series begins about the time when the Great Depression hit the United States, and ends with the advent of the consolidated schools. The teams then were no longer ‘Philmont’ teams, but belonged to the school.

Baseball teams were in no short supply during the 1920’s and early 1930’s. The first photo is of the Philmont High School baseball team of 1932. The gentleman in the center wearing a suit was ‘Prof’ Case – school principal, and not a force to be toyed with as any number of students from that era still recall !

During this period, home games were still being played on the Bidwell lot, but something happened to change the game of baseball in Philmont... Read Story and View Photos >>