Sunday, July 18, 2021

Once Upon A Summer 7/18/1918: N.Y. Ship League Team Defeats Brooklyn Royal Giants at Camden, New Jersey

From the desk: DEM BARNSTORMERS & THE DONALDSON NETWORK



On Thursday, July 18, 1918, the New York Ship League Team defeats the Brooklyn Royal Giants at Camden, New Jersey.


In a tightly contested affair, N.Y. Ship League starter Jack Barnard, despite four fielding errors, limits the Giants to a pair of runs on just five hits for the win.  Barnard's battery mate, Hyde, drives home the game's decisve run in the sixth with a double.  In a similar, albeit losing effort, Brooklyn starter Irvin Brooks yields three runs on five hits, two by Hyde.  Second baseman Joe Hewitt weilds two hits and scores a run; first baseman Eddie Douglass  accounts for one hit and Brooklyn's second run.  Right fielder Johnny Pugh, and John Donaldson, pinch-hitting in the seventh inning for John Cason, account for Brooklyn's only other hits.




LHP - JOHN DONALDSON w/BROOKLYN:
  1. 6/30/1918 - (L) 9 innings, 2 runs, 7 hits, 2 W, 2K; (Lincoln Giants; Olympic Field)
  2. 7/4/1918 - (W) 9 innings, 0 RUNS, 5 hits, 1 W, 6K, (Cuban Stars; Dexter Park)
  3. 7/7/1918 - (L) 9 innings, 3 runs, 9 hits, 2 W, 2K (Lincoln Giants; Olympic Field)
  4. 7/14/1918 - (W) 9 innings, 1 run, 7 hits, 1 W, 5K (Bushwick; Dexter Park)
  5. 7/16/1918 - (W) 9 innings, 4 runs, 14 hits, (?)W, 6K* (Atlantic City; Bacharach Park)
  • LINE: 45 innings, 10 runs, 42 hits, 6 walks, 21 strikeouts, 2.00 ERA
  • Since joining Brooklyn, John Donaldson has been to the plate no less than eleven times, with eight hits, including a triple and two runs scored (missing boxscores: 6/30/18 game two vs. Lincoln Giants; 7/4/18, game two vs. Cuban Stars; 7/17 vs. Bacharach Giants).

ONCE UPON A SUMMER, 1918: JOHN DONALDSON
 

BEDFORD & SULLIVAN PODCAST:
Restoring Baseball Great John Donaldson's Lost Legacy With Negro Leagues Historian and Founder of The Donaldson Network, Peter Gorton.

Minnesota native Peter Gorton leads a group of historians dedicated to discovering the lost legacy of John Wesley Donaldson.  In this episode, we discuss the man, baseball career, and life of one of the more incredible and inspiring athletes to ever play the game, and how his amazing legacy became lost to a nation, most particularly Baseball's Hall of Fame.  

Original airdate: March 13, 2021

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