Source: Herman H. Duncan Collection #921 Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: This photograph of the 1922 Greenville High School (Greenville, North Carolina) Baseball Team was used in the Greenville High School 1922 yearbook “The Tau.” Kneeling team members from left to right are identified as Richard Williams, Wesley Harvey, Douglas West, Frank Harrington, Berry [...]
Source: J. Bryan Grimes Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #54 Staff Person: Maury York Description: This broadside from the J. Bryan Grimes Papers was designed to attract spectators to a baseball game on May 23, 1896, between graduating seniors and faculty members at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Officials for the game [...]
Source: University Archives Staff Person: Brian Johnson Description: The image shown is of an article titled, “Baseball Has Come Long Way At College” by Lloyd Whitfield. It was printed in the May 11, 1951 issue of the Teco Echo, ECU’s campus newspaper. The article describes the first 20 years of baseball at ECU. This and [...]
Source: Manuscript Collection #706, Fred I. Sutton Papers, 1903-1951, East Carolina Manuscript Collection Staff Person: Lynette Lundin Description: I thought this was a great story on how we received one of many wonderful collections. We acquired this collection as a gift from Mr. and Mrs. William (Mickey) E. Elmore (Special Collections archivist Martha Elmore’s husband). [...]