A Little Springvale/Sanford Red Sox Baseball History – Part 2!

The game, from the Sanford Tribune, Friday, October 3rd, 1919

The Red Sox and the Sanford Professionals met at Goodall Park Wednesday afternoon in a game which will probably stand for a long time as the real classic event of Sanford's baseball. The score was 4-3 in favor of the Red Sox when the last little dust cloud stirred up by a player's toe cleared away. The Red Sox attack was led by Babe Ruth, the champion home run getter of the world to date.

Babe connected for a full circuit clout in the eighth inning. He was obliged to do it to win his fame. It wasn't a case of just letting the big swat artist bat the ball for four sacks to please the crowd of fans, who had been reading of his tremendous wallops during the big league season. When Ruth caught the old pill and sailed it over the right field fence, thirty feet or more inside the foul line and with a clearance of full forty feet, Sanford had his team in the hole 3-1, and it was the eighth inning. There were two out, and Gilholey was on third, with Roth on first, the result of a base on balls and a fielder's choice. Ruth had swung hard at the first ball pitched, and missed. Then came a called strike. There were few present who expected the blow that followed. Sanford's pitcher tried to pass the batter, but Babe reached out for a ball eight or ten inches wide of the plate, picked out the seam he wanted to hit it on, and slammed the sphere out of the park, whereafter taking his time in jogging around the bases in the wake of the two men who preceded him across the plate, putting the score at 4 to 3 against the locals, which count remained without change until the finish.

It was a hard game for Sanford to lose, and one of the best aside from the big home run feature, ever witnessed here. One error only was credited to each team, Ruth, playing at third, making one of them, and the favorite "Pink" the other. It was a battle of pitchers, Barclay, twirling for Sanford, allowed three bases on balls and struck out four men. Golden for the Red Sox had that same record for the game. Sanford connected safely five times, two of the hits contributed by Jim McKeon. Red Sox players corralled eight hits. NcNeil, the redoubtable catcher, landing three of them. Next to Ruth's homer the batting feature was a long triple by Rowe in the fourth, which, with Ruth's error and singles by McKeon and Kincaid, gave the Sanford team its three runs. Sharp fielding featured the fray, two double plays being worked by each team, Pinkerton starting Sanford's and Shean getting the double killings off for the Sox. It was a grand good game to watch, and many watched it-the biggest paid attendance of the season for the stores and mills were closed for the occasion.

There’s more to the story but I thought that just about covered it.

Money Update – Today we found 2.12 in change and 30 bottles and cans.

Wednesday was a day for finding lots of coins. Michele got things going with the discovery of a penny found in front of the black bear café. Next, I had a couple of errands to run and while doing so picked up a total of 3 cents. The first 2 came via the Somersworth Cumberland farms where I gassed up. The other penny was found at Staples while picking up some supplies for the business. A little later on Michele had good luck on her finding 35 cents (1 quarter and 1 dime). Both coins were found on Mill Street. She also came up with 11 cents (1 dime and 1 penny), which found at work.

The rest of the action was on the evening walk, and what a walk it was. Our big hit came from the car wash where we found 1.37 in change (5 quarters and 12 pennies). 1 of the quarters and the 12 pennies were found near vacuum stations, the quarter and a penny on the ground and the other 11 pennies on top of one of the islands. The other 4 quarters were on one of the ledges inside a self-serve bay. The final 25 cents of the walk was found near Luigi’s. It was lying on the ground.

Good Night and Good Hunting!

Money totals for 2007 - 2.64
Money totals since Jan. 2005 – 342.63

Bottle and Can totals for 2007 – 14,371 – 718.55
Bottle and Can totals since Jan. 2005 – 24,393 – 1,219.65