- External Links Click FILTER ROWS button to show only those rows in the grid; Quick-Filter: Double-Click The 1957 Milwaukee Braves Checklist | It was the year that the team won its first and only World Series championship while based in Milwaukee.The Braves won 95 games and lost 59 to win the National League pennant by eight games over the second-place St. Louis Cardinals.. Their presence sounded echoes of an earlier time, when airmen on their way to war passed through Waycross. No matter how early, someone was always playing a fierce game of Ping-Pong.34, A False Spring provides many of the details offered in this article regarding the Waycross camp in the 1960s.35 Jordan was a promising 18-year-old pitcher within the Braves system. . In Aarons time, camp was great . 110. 10. The 1957 Milwaukee Braves were more than just a championship team. Phone: 602.496.1460 It was a story of temporary denizens on a small piece of land hidden beyond the Okefenokee Swamp, young men who, over a period of almost 15 years, learned how to be baseball playersand, in so doing, brought change and deeper meaning to their lives and to the lives of others, sometimes in spite of themselves. Guy Lemieux, A lentrainement des Braves: rapports, Le Soleil (newspaper), April 1953. SABR members will get discounted rates for all Digital Library publications. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph, August 1954. A case in point is Ben Geraghty, manager of the Jacksonville Braves. Among Hispanic and French-speaking Quebec players in camp, the need for comfort and guidance was equally great, for not only were they strangers to a system, but they were strangers to the language. Roster. 31. Back then he couldnt have weighed more than 150 pounds, said Ambrose recently, but could he hit home runs, especially to the opposite field.46, To Lou Fusk, Waycross possessed every facility possible for the development of young talent. Commenting in 1955, he called the camp one of the most efficient in baseball, with any number of former players and coaches on hand to lecture on and teach such fundamentals as sliding, base running, and batting practices with mechanical pitching machines.47 To another Quebec writer it was simply magnifique.48, It was also expensive. 48. They had high-kicking southpaw Warren Spahn, on his way to the Hall of Fame. Lyle Spatz, Bad Bill Dahlen: The Rollicking Life and Times of an Early Baseball Star (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2004), 53. He explained: How much harder it must be for the players coming from a different country and speaking another language . Perini Certain W. Palm Beach Will Build Park, The Sporting News, 28 March 1962, 28 March 1962, 19. - Rookies Videos | Spahn spent almost his whole career with the Braves, beginning with them in Boston in 1942. Edited by Gregory H. Wolf . Lew Jones was a black first baseman from Florida who attended Waycross in 1954. Postseason History 1957 World Series On this page: All Games in Series Entitled the 1957 Georgia Memorial to Congress,119 the document underscored Georgias continuing battle for segregation and, in language harsh and unfeeling, demanded the right to discriminate against racial minorities in public schools120 and everywhere else. Trenary, Braves Will Take $100,000 Gamble.. Gallery | . Braves Shift Mass Farm Base, The Sporting News, 3 March 1954, 22. Czerwinski, Class D trailblazer Turned to Teaching., 94. Books will be available in digital formats as well as paperbacks produced by print on demand (POD). A Look At Baseball Scouts and Their Profession (released in December 2011); OPENING FENWAY PARK IN STYLE: The 1912 World Champion Red Sox (May 2012); Red Sox Baseball in the Days of Ike and Elvis: The Red Sox of the 1950s (September 2012); Detroit Tigers 1984: What A Start! 1957 New York Yankees Roster American League ( AL) Team Record: 98-56 Finished 1st in the AL Attendance: 1,502,882, Avg. Copyright 1999- I could see my career ending right there in the red clay of Waycross, Georgiato say nothing of my life.108, Aaron did make it safely back to his bunk, and the next day, John Mullen gave me a Bulova watch and told me not to miss the bus anymore.109. A concession stand went up where the rotunda once stood, a pool was installed, and the YMCA opened a summer day camp. I walked into the colored one, he wrote. Comments | Except for the bewildered Puerto Rican. Although Jackie Robinson had broken through baseballs color barrier in 1946 with the Montreal Royals, most clubs were still wrestling with this new reality a decade later. Collection Summary. Phoenix, AZ 85004 Bill Nowlin, Roland Hemond, in The Baseball Biography Project, SABR. 1957 Milwaukee Braves (Any Medium) doyle-collection Entire Image Gallery 1983 PEREZ-STEELE HOF POSTCARD 177 HANK AARON AARON, HANK GEM MT 10 Exhibiting an understated style that became his trademark, Hank Aaron hammered his way to baseball's all-time home run mark via one of the most consistent offensive careers in history. The Bears already had a first baseman, and Jones was struggling at the plate. By 1960, the Braves and the Orioles hosted the only minor-league training camps remaining in Georgia121 In Bravesville life went on, shaken somewhat, but comforted by the camps self-imposed isolation. 1957 Georgia Memorial to Congress, Absolute Astronomy, 8 March 1957. 131. The stadium had actually been built for the minor league Milwaukee Brewers. http://bioproj.sabr.org. The Milwaukee Braves quickly became the sensation of baseball. 19. Aaron with Wheeler, I Had a Hammer, 53. - Hall of Famers The camp, already a beehive of activity, was made more so by the steady flow of visitors intent on chatting with players and watching them work out. Led by the bats of National League Most Valuable Player Henry Aaron and slugging third baseman Eddie Mathews and the Big Three pitching trio (Cy Young Award winner Warren Spahn, Lew Burdette, and Bob Buhl) the Braves won 95 games. They were young pitchers attending their first spring training in the Milwaukee Braves organization in Waycross, Georgia, and they couldnt speak English. They went 45-32 at home and 50-27 on the road. Thar's Joy in Braveland: The 1957 Milwaukee Braves Saul Wisnia, Joe Wancho, Bob Buege, Chip Greene, John Vorperian, Michael J Bielawa, Mel Marmer, Rory Costello SABR, Inc., Apr 7, 2014 -. 55. Telephone conversation with Roland Hemond, 5 February 2010. Click here for additional help. At Waycross, you really had no way of knowing you were even in the South, says Jim Fanning, who joined the organization in 1963. 118. . The Waycross entry in the Class D Georgia State League in 1914 was called the Grasshoppers and later the Moguls. Phone: 602.496.1460 126. . 555 N. Central Ave. #416 - Eddie Mathews, A Complete Roster for the 1958 Milwaukee Braves. 1957 Milwaukee Braves Results The Milwaukee Braves of the National League ended the 1957 season with a record of 95 wins and 59 losses, finishing first in the NL. However, in 1958 the Braves' third starting pitcher, Bob Buhl, was injured after pitching in just 11 games (winning five), which put even more pressure on Spahn, Burdette, and their manager Fred Haney to be able to win. The Braves paced the league with 772 runs, spearheaded by 199 home runs. Home plate on each diamond sat about 30 yards from the rotunda, from whose top scouts and managers could watch any player in any game. Thar's Joy in Braveland: The 1957 Milwaukee Braves (The SABR Digital Library): Wolf, Gregory H., Wolf, Gregory H., Lake, Russ, Levin, Len, Nowlin, Bill, Bielawa, Michael J, Costello, Rory, Fields, Dan, Wisnia, Saul, Sturgill, Andy: 9781933599717: Amazon.com: Books Books Sports & Outdoors Baseball Hugh Wise, Braves Scout, Built Layout on Marshland, The Sporting News, 21 March 1955, 21. In the mid-1950s, these men were joined by a woman. Trenary, Braves Will Take $100,000 Gamble.. 90. we slept in barracks, blacks and whites in the same long room.77 Aaron considered this a pretty bold thing for that day and age and attributed it in part to the fact that the camp was far enough from town that none of the local people paid much attention to us.78 John Ambrose recalled that the players did everything together. Not only will we continue to publish new books likeCAN HE PLAY? Brooklyn allowed 650 runs, least in the league. 1957 Milwaukee Braves, Braves 1957 Roster. Detail page for Roster Milwaukee 1957 Braves Free Sim Baseball League Copyright 2023 Trading Card Database LLC One of these programs was the Braves Silver Slugger Schools for youngsters ages 1621 directed by scouts such as Doc Gautreau. ORee with McKinley, The Autobiography of Willie ORee, 41. . Encyclopedia of Milwaukee reserves the right to use the comments we receive, in whole or in part, and to use the commenter's name and location, in any medium. There were these white guys sitting at the soda fountain, he recalls, and sure enough, they started in with racial remarks and name-calling. Waycross fielded a team, again called the Braves, in that second and final season. The 1957 Milwaukee Braves won the World Series. 15. I still think of myself, not as a writer who once pitched, but as a pitcher who happens to be a writer just now.133. This simple square room equipped with trestle-style picnic tables and benches, and an open kitchen provided three meals a day. The core of the Braves team was once again Hank Aaron, Eddie Mathews, Joe Adcock, Warren Spahn, and Lew Burdette. Everybody loved to see Doc, Roland Hemond, the Braves assistant farm director throughout the 1950s, remembers fondly.26, Hemond married Margo Quinn, the daughter of Braves general manager John Quinn, in 1958 and, until he moved to the Angels in 1961, the young married couple spent spring training at Waycross. Pennant Chase offers free online baseball simulation leagues, where users draft players from the history of baseball, manage their team, and results are simmed based on historical stats. Farm Camps Geared for Mass Production, The Sporting News, 9 March 1960, 11. All Rights Reserved by Baseball Almanac, Inc.Hosted by Hosting 4 Less. State Attorney General Bronson La Follette sued to keep the team, but on Opening Day 1966 the once-beloved Braves, who had never experienced a losing season in 13 years in Milwaukee, were playing in Atlanta Stadium. 22. They were thrilled when I greeted them, just like some of the Latin players appreciate it when some of the baseball people speak Spanish to them when they hit the country.101, He believes his ability to help French-speaking players made a difference because it gave a more personal feel to their first professional baseball experience.102, Waycross provided Pichs introduction to professional baseball, and with his limited English and the strangeness of the environment, he considers it perhaps the toughest of all his baseball challenges. The 1958 Milwaukee Braves played 154 games during the regular season, won 92 games, lost 62 games, and finished in first position. Football Stats - NFL - CFL - AFL - Arena Football - Indoor Football - Search Following the service, they stepped into a drugstore. Little remains of once thriving Bravesvilleexcept perhaps as a footnote in time. Despite playing in a ballpark without bleachers in center or right field, and with no advance ticket sales, the Braves established a National League attendance record of 1,826,397. The Old Ball Game, ed. 43. Sometimes, it was hard to figure out who had your back and who was trying to put a knife into it.92, At times there was no one to break the ice. . Telephone conversation with Roland Hemond, 5 February 2010. Bill 44 never did become law. See also the Copyright, Privacy, and Terms & Conditions. The Wild Saga of the 1957 Milwaukee Braves and the Screwballs, Sluggers, and Beer Swiggers Who Canned the New York Yankees and Changed Baseball: Klima, John: 9781250006165: Amazon.com: Books Books History Americas Buy new: $19.99 Get Fast, Free Shipping with Amazon Prime FREE Returns They will suck you dry and haul you off like a vampire.. Bill Lanchow, Slam Sports, 7 June 2009. 1957 Milwaukee Braves Statistics 1956 Season 1958 Season Record: 95-59-1, Finished 1st in National League ( Schedule and Results ) Postseason: Won World Series (4-3) over New York Yankees Manager: Fred Haney (95-59-1) General Manager: John Quinn Ballpark: County Stadium Attendance: 2,215,404 (1st of 8) Louis J. Fusk, Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph, 15 April 1955. 13. - Errors / Variations 11. 101. . They defeated the Milwaukee Brewers in the Division Series and faced the Los Angeles Dodgers in the Championship Series for the second straight year. This article is our opportunity to restore that balance. Lemieux, A lentrainement des Braves.. STARTING LINEUP Joe TORRE 1960-1968 Catcher Freddie FREEMAN 2010- first base Ozzie ALBIES 2017- second base Rabbit MARANVILLE 1912-1920, 1929-1933, 1935 shortstop Eddie MATHEWS 1952-1966 third base Chipper JONES 1993, 1995-2012 111. 32. The wooden Air Corps buildings were torn down, although the concrete changing room still stands; fences were removed; light standards disassembled; and the diamonds, still discernable beneath the unkempt grass, were left fallow. When the municipality replaced the center with a more modern facility some years later, the old Braves training grounds were incorporated into an expanding Waycross Ware County Industrial Park. Black guys like me. Louis J. Fusk, Quebec Chronicle Telegraph, 15 April 1955. I was about number 340.56, Eventually the organization decided to issue standard gray practice uniforms to all players. St. Petersburg Times, 30 June 1954, 23. Henry Aarons introduction to Waycross beyond the camp gates was more than unpleasant or awkward; it was almost fatal. The same fate struck the Waycross Blowhards of the short-lived Empire State League in 1913.10 Efforts to reestablish baseball in the area in 1914 fared a little better but were abandoned in less than two years.11. The operation is state of the art in every wayand a very far cry from the red clay of Waycross. 114. Contact SABR, https://sabr.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/np-2010-055.large-thumbnail.jpg, /wp-content/uploads/2020/02/sabr_logo.png, The Red Clay of Waycross: Minor-League Spring Training in Georgia with the Milwaukee Braves, The National Pastime: Baseball in the Peach State (Atlanta, 2010). America, 1993). Set midway between Interstates I-95 and I-75, Waycross occupies a spot where road and rail naturally intersect. Telephone conversation with Roland Hemond, 5 February 2010. Today, Hemond is among the most respected administrators in the game; SABR presents an annual award for lifetime achievement for long-term contributions to scouting and player development in his honor. I realized, wrote Jordan, that not only would I be noticed but my every move would be watched.68, George McQuinn and Sibby Sisti experience the Carnaval de Qubec with Bonhomme Carnaval, circa 1955. I played that game all my life, and it kept me on my toes." For the most part, their English skills were minimal, and so they turned to folks like Doc Gautreau or Roland Gladu and especially to Roland Hemond for direction. titles that well be adding to the SABR Digital Library. According to one long-time Waycross resident, they are not your regular mosquitoes; they are big and black, tiger mosquitoes, and when they swarm at night you dont want to be anywhere near the swamp. Lew Burdette hurled three complete-game victories, including two shutouts, to bring the championship to "Bushville," which Milwaukee legend suggests was the sobriquet applied to the city by the Yankees. Our publications program is shifting to take advantage of new methods of publishing. 119. 61. This time he had to make the five-day, 2,000-mile trip by bus. It wasnt as easy for him to turn the other cheek.95, In camp, among those offering support to Hispanic players was Bill Lucas, the same man who had once removed the locks at Waycross. Fans packed the grandstand and cheered every move by anyone in a Braves uniform. Milwaukee Braves. There is one no-hitter which the team allowed one run, thrown by Vic Willis in 1899. The Braves roared ahead by winning three of the first four games for a 31 lead in the series. The Braves reached the pinnacle of their sport in 1957, polishing off Casey Stengels New York Yankees to capture the World Series. Phoenix, AZ 85004 One caption declares that the road to the major leagues is long and dusty more often than not. Bravesville soldiered on, doing what it did best: preparing professional ball players. It was a fine line, but one the Braves managed to walk with some considerable success. Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. Part of the Baseball Almanac Family, 1958 Milwaukee Braves Roster | Research by. 1957 WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS: MILWAUKEE BRAVES 1957 ROSTER: MANAGER - Fred Haney: PITCHERS: NO. Social order rested on a precariously delicate and illusory balance. Guy Lemieux, A lentrainement des Braves, Lvnement (Qubec), 1953. Because the Braves were the sole occupants of the camp, the atmosphere was more relaxed than perhaps in a different kind of facility. When owner Lou Perini moved his National League baseball club from Boston to Milwaukee in March 1953, the Braves became the first major league ball club to change cities in half a century. Packaging | 76. Also, because of injuries, Adcock played in only 105 games, and Wes Covington played in just 90. Roger L. Williams says thats where I and many of my contemporaries learned to swim.132. The Braves have no-hit the Philadelphia Phillies the most, which occurred four times, which were no-hit by George Davis in 1914, Jim Wilson in 1954, Burdette in 1960, and Spahn in 1960. "I'd take on the other third baseman . The two men first met at Waycross in 1960, when Carty was finding the going especially tough. Forum | Their stories were rife with images of summer games and summer splendorand provided welcomed refuge from the next blizzard (there was always a next blizzard). I was getting the picture all too well.82, History professor Ken Fenster of SABRs Magnolia Chapter suggests that this change is not surprising because of the Brown [Brown v. Board of Education] decision in 1954, [prohibiting racial discrimination in schools.] Quinn was replaced in Milwaukee by Tebbetts' former teammate with the Detroit Tigers, 37-year-old John McHale, GM of the Tigers since 1957. Among the goods and chattels they brought along was a newly acquired minor-league spring-training facility located beside the Okefenokee Swamp on the outskirts of Waycross, Georgia. Gilbert Caldwell, Sugar Bowl 1956: A Southern Armageddon, American Renaissance 12, no. Segregation was not a factor. The only reason [the mosquitoes]72 didnt get me was that I had to stay in the car, he said. Trenary, Braves Will Take $100,000 Gamble.. We select a 28-player roster of the greatest Atlanta Braves, including the Boston Braves and the Milwaukee Braves. Betthauser, Bigotry Is Bad for Business, 23. Milwaukee Braves: 1957 World Series Game 7, Box Score: Milwaukee Braves 5, New York Yankees 0: October 10, 1957. Regardless what went on within camp, the organization was limited in what it could do to acclimatize nonwhite or foreign players to the broader, changing world beyondand in the South that meant dealing with the intransigence of Jim Crow politics. - Videos Research by Baseball Almanac. During Lucas' term, the club had also hired Bobby Cox for his first term (1978-81) as manager. Having trouble downloading e-books to your Kindle, Nook, Sony Reader or iPad? The 1957 Milwaukee Braves season was the 5th season in Milwaukee and the 87th season of the franchise. Hank Aaron was a member of the first Waycross class in 1953, as were Felix Mantilla of Puerto Rico and Horace Garner, once an Indianapolis Clown. Milwaukee Braves: A Baseball Eulogy. - Sell Sheets / Ads 83. When the now-Atlanta Braves began centralizing all spring-training operations at West Palm Beach, they built a new clubhouse, lockers and three extra fields for Braves farm clubs129 and incorporated the five teams and 125150 players remaining at Bravesville. A few, notably the Dodgers, the Giants, and the Indians, saw it as a boon. "Caught Stealing: Single Season Team Records", Claude Raymond page at Baseball Reference, The Society for American Baseball Research, Milwaukee Braves team page at Baseball Reference, 2011 Major League Baseball wild card chase, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1958_Milwaukee_Braves_season&oldid=1120526703, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Prior to 1958 season: In an unusual turn of events for a World Series champion, Braves' manager, This page was last edited on 7 November 2022, at 13:16. Next year we would have to relocate the training center., General manager John Quinn was more cautious. 33. Ohio News (Lima, Ohio), 23 January 1957. Having trouble downloading our e-books? 46. Telephone conversation with Roland Hemond, 5 February 2010. Sentinel, 14 February 1957, 15. At the time, Lucas spoke very little Spanish, and Carty had no English, but somehow the two men connected. And then they shut it down.130. Id like to be home with my mother now. So I went to John Mullen and said, Give me my release. One year their quarters were next door to Gautreaus hospitality room. Buege, Bob. Frankly, I cant recall any incidents that might contradict that view.80, Hemond regards the Braves of the 1950s and the camp at Waycross as something special. Did you know that a 1958 Milwaukee Braves Schedule is available and it includes dates of every game played, scores of every game played, a cumulative record, and many hard to find splits (Monthly Splits, Team vs Team Splits & Score Related Splits)? 11 Braves Players Polished at Kids Camp in Six Years.. Stay tuned throughout the year for new (and old!) ISBN (paperback): 978-1-933599-71-7, $19.95 Milwaukee: Douglas American Sports Publications, 1988. Roy Campanella paced all regular hitters by hitting .318. . It was here that the most influential decision makers (general manager John Quinn, John Mullen, and his assistant Roland Hemond) took in practice drills and games. They had handsome young slugger Eddie Mathews, who led the majors in home runs. It was a mass-production approach to be sure, but it delivered. Designated trademarks and brands are the property of their respective owners. The Braves first introduced separate training for their farm affiliates2 in 1949, at a camp built on a former Army air base in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Where what happened yesterday is being preserved today. In 1961 he became the scouting and farm director for the Los Angeles Angels. Milwaukee surrendered 613 runs. update=copyright.getFullYear(); 121. Waycross Bravesville, as it appeared circa 1960. We have built four fine practice diamonds at Waycross and our housing for the kids sent there to work out is one of the finest anywhere. 43 Willie ORee, a young black man from Canada who earned a brief tryout at Waycross before ultimately making his mark in hockey, concurred. Warren Spahn was a 17-time all-star and led the NL with wins in 1950, 1953, and 1957-1960. Aaron with Wheeler, I Had a Hammer, 55. Starters: Hank Aaron, Del Crandall, and Warren Spahn Willie ORee with Michael McKinley, The Autobiography of Willie ORee: Hockeys Black Pioneer (Toronto: Somerville House, 2000), 41. I can still speak French, Hemond told Bill Nowlin for the SABR Baseball Biography Project. . Glossary | Roland Hemond is in the front, second from left, and Doc Gautreau is in the second row over Rolands left shoulder. It includes four practice fields positioned directly behind Champion Stadium and four others set aside for amateur teams. He became a teacher, earning a masters degree and Ph.D. along the way. I wasnt going to cause a revolution during my first few minutes in town.104, ORee spent two weeks at Waycross. The Braves led the league almost until July and wound up in second behind the Brooklyn Dodgers. (COLLECTION OF DANIEL PAPILLON). over New York Yankees (A.L.) 102. Top achievers were then sent to Waycross, where they received additional major-league training and the possibility of a minor-league contract.54, On arrival at camp, players faced the task of registering, sorting out accommodations and meals, and so onstuff that anyone who has ever gone to college well understands.55 In the early years, each farm club brought its own uniforms, leading to a considerable duplication of numbers and much confusion for managers and camp directors. He began the season with Eau Claire but was transferred back to Georgia to play with the Braves Waycross affiliate in the Georgia- Florida League. The other guys brought sandwiches out to me, and I ate in the back seat.73 He was forbidden entry to the eatery. PLAYERS B T HT WT; 10 Bob Buhl R R 6 - 2 190; 33 Lew Burdette R R . 30,343 Ballpark: County Stadium Won World Series World Series - Defeated New York Yankees 4-3 Manager: Fred Haney (95-59) Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin 1957 Milwaukee Braves Statistics 1957 Milwaukee Braves Roster Milwaukee Journal, 15 February 1957. There was something quite humbling about wearing a shirt with 299 on its back, said Jordan.57, The real work started after breakfast. Monday, October 7, 1957 at County Stadium in Milwaukee, Wisconsin WP: Lew Burdette (2-0) LP: Whitey Ford (1-1) With the opposing team's top two pitchers, Whitey Ford and Lew Burdette, facing each other, Game 5 was expected to be a low-scoring affair. Today, surrounded by a regional population of 15,000, Waycross serves as the county seat for Ware County and is regarded as something of a tourist destination. We were hard-nosed and that showed up in 1957. Braves catcher Del Crandall. Aaron with Wheeler, I Had a Hammer, 46. Alice Richardson was a University of Wisconsin professor specializing in improving the speed and accuracy of human vision. 47. On the first Sunday, he and several dormmates left camp for an all-black Baptist Church. Georgia Racial Bill Threatens Braves Base at Waycross.. 132. The newly minted Milwaukee Braves added Bill Bruton and Jim Pendleton in 1953, Hank Aaron and catcher Charlie White in 1954, and Panamanian pitcher Humberto Robinson, who had played in Quebec, the following year. The Braves were good that way, he mused, they never struck me as prejudiced.79, Such was Roland Hemonds recollection as well. Aaron with Wheeler, I Had a Hammer, 55. Below the main roster you will find in the Fast Facts section: a 1958 Milwaukee Braves Opening Day starters list, a 1958 Milwaukee Braves salary list, a 1958 Milwaukee Braves uniform number breakdown and a 1958 Milwaukee Braves primary starters list. The Braves finished first in the National League with a 9262 record and returned to the World Series for the second consecutive year, losing to the New York Yankees in seven games. 73. [11] McHale would serve as the Braves' general manager and, later, team president, through the club's final years in Milwaukee and its 1966 move to Atlanta, before his dismissal that year. In 1960, Jordan wrote all the coaches, scouts, managers and front office people slept in the first barrack; the white American players slept in the next three; the Spanish-speaking players in the fifth; and the black players in the sixth barrack closest to the swamp.123, Cito Gastons recollection was similar. BILL YOUNG is coauthor, with Danny Gallagher, of Remembering the Montreal Expos (Scoop Press, 2006) and author of several articles about minor-league baseball (particularly the Provincial League) in Quebec.
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