Download or read book Gateway to the Majors written by James P. Quigel and published by Penn State University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although many people know Williamsport, Pennsylvania, as the "birthplace of Little League Baseball," it is a city with a rich professional baseball tradition. Since the earliest days of the Pennsylvania State Association in the nineteenth century, professional minor league baseball has flourished in Williamsport, and over the years hundreds of players and managers have passed through historic Bowman Field on their way to the major leagues, including Jim Bunning, Ferguson Jenkins, and Nolan Ryan. Gateway to the Majors is a comprehensive history of professional minor league baseball in Williamsport from the earliest days up until the present. This book breaks new ground by weaving in social history and collective biography to capture the essence of the minor league experience in one city. Drawing upon local Williamsport newspapers, extensive oral histories of former players, baseball administrators, boosters and fans, rare photograph collections, and primary source material from the Baseball Hall of Fame Library and Archives, Gateway to the Majors reconstructs the totality of the professional baseball experience. Beyond chronicling the seasons, this book sheds light on the contributions of Williamsport native Tommy Richardson as a pioneering minor league administrator and promoter of the game. The accompanying appendix of former Williamsport players who played in the Major Leagues is a valuable reference tool for baseball historians. This book also illustrates how the city's relationship with baseball forged a distinct civic identity and national reputation as "Baseball Town, USA."
Download or read book Williamsport written by Robin Van Auken and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than one hundred years, the Grit was small-town America's favorite family newspaper and a Sunday morning staple. Dietrick Lamade, a German immigrant and self-made man, founded the Grit and ushered it through early adversity and uncertainty, eventually initiating innovations such as direct mail and nationwide newsboy delivery, transforming the paper into a national institution. The Grit was one of the first newspapers in America to feature color photographs and fictional supplements. Williamsport: The Grit Photograph Collection documents momentous events from a turn-of-the-century city on the rise, through the end of the lumber boom, the world wars, and the great Depression, to modern times.
Download or read book Resources and Industries of the City of Williamsport and Lycoming County Pennsylvania written by Board of Trade (Williamsport, Pa.) and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The City of Williamsport Pennsylvania Located in the Centre of a Circle with a Radius of 170 Miles Makes Williamsport the Very Centre of Pennsylvania s Great Coal Iron and Lumber Regions and of the Greatest Manufacturing District in the World written by Williamsport (Pa.). Board of Trade and published by . This book was released on with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Laws and Ordinances written by Williamsport (Pa.). and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Codified Ordinances of the City of Williamsport Pennsylvania Planning and zoning code written by Williamsport (Pa.). and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Citizens Committee on Flood Protection for the City of Williamsport Pa written by Williamsport (Pa.). Citizens' Committee on Flood Protection and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Williamsport written by Dana Borick Brigandi and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once known as "the Lumber Capital of the World," Williamsport, Pennsylvania, is more than its lumber heritage. It is an artistic and cultural hub enjoying a revitalization, much of which is due to the discovery of Marcellus Shale and the gas industry. As the birthplace of Little League Baseball, Williamsport boasts an award-winning school district and public library, two nationally ranked colleges, and several landmarks listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Businesses like the Grit newspaper and Shop-Vac have been at the forefront of major industries, including aircraft engines, railroad transport, and manufacturing. A new generation of business owners is changing the downtown landscape through public art, community events, and cultural activities. No matter what challenges residents face, they are dedicated to preserving and advancing the city they call home.
Download or read book Williamsport s Millionaires Row written by Thad Stephen Meckley and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Williamsport was once known as the lumber capital of the world, claiming to have more millionaires per capita living there than anywhere else in the world. Made fashionable by visionary Victorian-era entrepreneur Peter Herdic and his talented personal architect Eber Culver, Williamsport's West Fourth Street became the place to live and visit celebrities and socialites, including Annie Weightman Walker Penfield, the richest woman in the world in her day. These vintage postcards feature scenes varying from the lavish Victorian homes the nouveau riche built from the spoils of the bustling lumbermills and offshoot industries to the resplendent houses of worship where the rich and the poor stood side by side. Williamsport's Millionaires' Row records the pinnacle of Williamsport's wealth and glory days, highlighting the homes of the Millionaires' Row National Register Historic District.
Download or read book Williamsport Pennsylvania Central Business District Study written by Community Planning Services, Inc., Monroeville, Pa and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lycoming College 1812 2012 written by John F. Piper and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2011-12-16 with total page 807 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lycoming College, 1812-2012: On the Frontiers of American Education is the story of Lycoming College, a liberal arts and sciences college in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. The College is one of the fifty oldest institutions of higher education in the nation and is the oldest that retains a relationship to the United Methodist Church. The College shares many characteristics with peer institutions which have retained the liberal arts and sciences as the basis of their academic programs. It also has the distinction of having evolved through four different stages of American education, and has reached a fifth. It began as the Williamsport Academy in 1812, a school that offered a higher level of education than common schools. Academies became the ancestors of public high schools. In 1848 a group of Methodists bought the Academy and transformed it into Dickinson Seminary, soon renamed Williamsport Dickinson Seminary. It was a preparatory school, not a school of theology, despite its name. In 1929 the leaders of the Seminary added a Junior College to their school. Junior colleges were a new frontier of American education in the early 20th Century and Dickinson Junior College became the first fully accredited private junior college in Pennsylvania. After World War II the Junior College became a four year institution and chose the name Lycoming. In 2000 the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching included Lycoming in its list of 213 national liberal arts colleges. This latest frontier has become a challenge to the College to sustain its program in an ever changing American educational landscape.
Download or read book Souvenir of Williamsport Pa written by Chisholm Bros and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reports of the Several Banks and Savings Institutions of Pennsylvania Communicated by the Auditor General to the Legislature written by Pennsylvania. Office of the Auditor General and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Codified Ordinances of the City of Williamsport Pennsylvania Building and housing written by Williamsport (Pa.). and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Annual Report written by Pennsylvania. Dept. of Internal Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 1004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report written by Pennsylvania. Department of Internal Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
