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Subject: [IACERROG] Cerro Gordo County Baseball History
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:10:18 -0000
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Author: pwgortonmb1
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My name is Pete Gorton and I am leading an effort to shed a past due light on a great American baseball player. John Donaldson was known in the early Twentieth Century as the "Greatest Colored Pitcher In The World." We have been tracking his playing career for several years and more information is available at:
www.johndonaldson.bravehost.com
We are looking for a couple very specific instances when Donaldson played in Cerro Gordo county. References state Donaldson played in the cities of Clear Lake, Mason City and Thornton, Iowa.
Cerro Gordo county is a special place in the Donaldson search strictly due to the number of instances he played there.
We are looking for local accounts of the following games:
July 31, 1911, Donaldson playing for the Brown's Tennessee Rats. We are looking for a Cerro Gordo county paper that could have reported on this game.
August 17, 1911, Donaldson playing for the Brown's Tennessee Rats against Clear Lake at Thornton, IA. We need to check the local Thornton paper if one exists.
Also in the summer of 1911 we need to check for games against Mason City. We have checked the Mason City Globe Gazette without success. We are wondering if there was another prominent Cerro Gordo paper that could have reported on this instance.
On August 17, 1932, Donaldson's All Stars played a ballgame in Clarion, IA against the Mason City Bats. We are looking for accounts of this game from any county source.
Donaldson traveled throughout the Upper Midwest during his near 40 year playing career. Some say he would have been the best pitcher in the Major Leagues in his prime of 1910 to 1917.
Any help you could give would be greatly appreciated.
If you are interested in the Donaldson effort, we can send you some background on Donaldson's many exploits in other parts of Iowa.
We have collected a list of know players from Cerro Gordo county references who played against John Donaldson and their surnames are listed here:
Surnames for Cerro Gordo county, IA:
Allen ,Brown, Dunn, Elder, Hilley, Johnson, Palmer, Parish, Rustle, Schmidt, Welch, Zeismer, Brewer, Collins, Fitzgerald, Ktitering, Lizy, Marsden, Murray, Palmer, Pappe, Parks, Peters.
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