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Batter
up!
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players pictured are: (front row, from left) Owen
Crumb, Dick McCallum, Bill Bartow, Sid Smith, Art Manso,
George Mercer, Joe Manning and Russ Lisson. (back row,
from left) John Foremen, Wally Oates, Jim Carey, Ed Esserman,
Bob Isaban, Steve Zinn, Hyle Richmond, Burt Lauder and
Bob Clark.Ê |
Eddie
Esserman '49
(back row, 4th from the left) provided this copy of his 1949
Triple Cities College intramural softball team. The photo
appeared in the 1949 yearbook. Triple Cities College, Binghamton
University's predecessor, was located in Endicott at the time.
The article
in the 1949 yearbook reads:
Spring
came, and with it the addition of intramural softball to the
every-increasing sports program at Triple Cities College.
In all, there were eleven teams vieing for the title and trophies
in games played at South Field (down by the waterworks). All
games were seven inning contests with special ground rules
adhered to.
Two leagues
were formed, the American and the National. Since such a large
number of men turned out for the sport, team rosters were
limited to no more than fifteen men per team.
After
some weeks of spirited competition during which each team
played five games (except those that were rained out), the
Baccacians of the American League and the Ramrods of the National
League, each taking individual league honors and sporting
4-1 records, met in a playoff to decide the championship.
A close game saw the "Sons of Bacchus" come out on top and
be crowned as intramural softball champions for 1948.
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