Volume 12 , Issue 5

Literary Baseball Magazine

Back about six or seven years ago we heard from someone concerning "Spitball: The Literary Baseball Magazine" page, which now has a NEW URL. It went something like this:

"Linda - I've so enjoyed your loving recreation of your grandfather's scrapbook, I'd like to share a few links that I visited as I was following the Bill McGill story ? I've also passed your URL along to a few of my friends in the Society for American Baseball Research who - I believe - will find great value in your work. You've done a great job with the site. Thanks for sharing!

* www.baseball-reference.com/m/mcgilbi01.shtml and The 1907 STL A Game Log -- 9-16-1907 2 At CLE A T 2- 2 starter: Bill McGill -- opposing starter: Heinie Berger; 9-27-1907 At NY A W 7- 6 starter: Bill McGill -- opposing starter: Doc Newton

* "I found it unusual that there was a gentleman in the baseball literary community who shared your grandfather's name. -- Spitball: The Literary Baseball Magazine -- 'William J. McGill, Managing Editor/Poetry Editor ... Bill McGill is a writer, retired college teacher/administrator (Senior Vice President and Dean of the Faculty Emeritus, Lebanon Valley College), Episcopal priest, actor, and St. Louis Cardinals fan. He is the author of The Rock Springs Chronicles, a volume of interconnected stories; and he has published numerous scholarly articles on history, literature, and religion in professional journals, as well as many short stories and poems in a variety of literary magazines. Associated with Spitball since 1993, he also serves on the boards of the Pennsylvania School of Art and Design (Lancaster, PA) and Concertante, a chamber music ensemble based in Harrisburg.'
Cats in the Majors - One of only seven pitchers in major league history with rhyming first and last names: Turk Burke (1887), Mark Clark (1991-99), Ed Head (1940-46), Bill Hill (1896-99),

Bill McGill (1907), Heine Meine (1922-34), Cy Pieh (1913-1915).

"Perhaps you'd like to share your McGill family history with Mr. McGill of Spitball Magazine... I'm sure he'd appreciate your remarkable website. Thanx again."
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