About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 48. Chapters: Abel Lizotte, Bert Roberge, Billy Maloney, Bill Carrigan, Bill Murray (baseball), Bill Rollinson, Bill Swift, Bobby Coombs, Bobby Messenger, Bob Stanley, Bob Vail, Brian Butterfield, Candy Nelson, Cannonball Titcomb, Carl Willey, Charlie Devens, Charlie Furbush, Charlie Small, Charlie Waitt, Chester Emerson, Chet Chadbourne, Chummy Gray, Clarence Blethen, Clyde Sukeforth, Cody Cillo, Cuke Barrows, Curt Fullerton, Danny Coombs, Dan Walters, Del Bissonette, Dick Joyce (baseball), Dick Scott (shortstop), Don Brennan (baseball), Eddie Files, Freddy Parent, Fred Howard (baseball), George Gore, George Magoon, George Washburn, Ham Allen, Happy Iott, Harland Rowe, Harry Curtis (baseball), Harry Lord, Harry Wood (baseball), Harvey Cushman, Henry Buker, Irv Ray, Irv Young, Jack Robinson (catcher), Jim Beattie, Jim Mains, John Cumberland, John Winkin, Ken Joyce, Kid Madden, Larry Gowell, Live Oak Taylor, Louis Sockalexis, Mark Rogers (baseball), Marv Peasley, Matt Kinney, Otis Lawry, Pat O'Connell (baseball), Pete Ladd, Pop Williams, Ralph Botting, Ralph Good, Rip Cannell, Rip Jordan, Ron Tingley, Roy Weir, Ryan Flaherty, Sid Farrar, Simmy Murch, Squanto Wilson, Stan Thomas (baseball), Steve Libby, Tim Stauffer, Tom Downey, Tony Franklin (baseball), Wally Clement, Walter Thornton, Willard Mains. Excerpt: John W. Winkin, Jr. (born July 24, 1920) is a retired American baseball coach, scout, broadcaster, journalist and collegiate athletics administrator. Winkin led the University of Maine Black Bears baseball team to six College World Series berths in an 11-year span. In 2007 at age 87, he was the oldest active head coach in any collegiate sport at any NCAA level. In all, 92 of his former players wound up signing professional baseball contracts. Elected to 11 different halls of fame, he finished his college baseball coaching career in 2008 with 1,043 total wins. Winkin was born July 24, 1920 in Englewood, New Jersey, the son of Cora Senner Winkin and John W. Winkin, Sr. His mother earned her medical degree at Columbia University and was a physician on the staff of Columbia Presbyterian Medical College before her death in 1932. His father was a linguistics professor at Columbia University who spoke seven languages. Winkin attended Duke University, where he played baseball for head coach Jack Coombs as a 5-foot 6-inch left-handed hitting center fielder. He also played basketball and soccer and was a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity. Winkin graduated in 1941 with a bachelor's degree in education. Following graduation Winkin joined the U.S. Navy as an ensign, spending 56 months at sea in the Pacific theatre and rising to the rank of lieutenant commander. Winkin served as one of 158 crew aboard the USS McCall, a destroyer assigned to protect aircraft carrier USS Enterprise. After delivering marines to Wake Island, the fleet was returning to port at Pearl Harbor on the evening of December 6, 1941. However the McCall was unable to make it in because of hazardous weather. If not for that storm, the ship would have been berthed next to the USS Arizona when Japanese forces attacked the next morning. Instead Winkin and his crewmates saw the entire attack unfold from the decks of the McCall in the waters outside the harbor. Following his military discharge, Winkin returned to Ne
