yesterday's tennessee

Salant Baseball

from the collection of Brenda Fiddler

August 9, 1940
Lexington Progress

Lexington at Parsons Sunday: The Lexington baseball boys, much encouraged by defeating Linden in a double header last Sunday, will go to Parsons next Sunday the 11th for a game, and on Sunday, the 19th, Salant & Salant of Paris will bring their club here for a try with the Lexington boys.

The games have been interesting. Woodrow Buck has been doing some wonderful pitching and if you enjoy a ball game—be there.
[Lexington beat Parsons, 10 to 9 with Abe Fishier, the winning pitcher]

 [Players on the Lexington team as reported in the Progress, August 23, 1940: Hinson (cf), Fuller (rf), Long (2b), Wade (ss), Helms (3b), Patterson (lf), Davies (lf), Fanning (c), Bomar (lb), Buck (p).   “Lexington defeated Salant & Salant of Paris, Tennessee, on the local diamond by the score of 4 to 2, in a game stopped by rain during the last half of the fifth inning.”] 

[August 30, 1940: Lexington loses close game to Chesterfield, 5 to 3. Names of Chesterfield team given: M. Reed (2b), Zimmerlee (lf), Johnson (ss), Daws (lb), H. Reed (p), Deere (c), McPeake [?], Wyatt (3b), Laster (rf)]

August 30, 1940 Progress [Lexington wins over Paris 3 to 0; Lefty (Woodrow) Buck strikes out 17]