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Tri-Counties Genealogy &
History by Joyce M. Tice
People of the Tri-Counties
Town of Chemung, Chemung County
NY
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Bradford County PA
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Chemung County NY
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Tioga County PA
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Pennant Winners Summer 1940 |
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From Burt Beers, submitted by Mike Tuccinardi
Left to Right:
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Carlton "Pat" Beers
Earl Van Gorder
Eli "Junie" Bodine Jr. (Geoff Bodine's father)
Bob Lovell
Andy ?
Skeet Stanton - no kin to Bill Stanton
"Bucky" ?????
Bill Stanton
Chet Beers - no kin to Carlton or Burt Beers
Barney Groves (in civlian dress)
Bat Boy - in front - our very own Burt Beers
Late 1940s Team
Photo courtesy of Jim Dewey Sr.
Information courtesy of Jim Dewey Sr. and Burt Beers.
Front Row:
(1) Harry Carlisle
(2) Unknown
(3) Maynard Bodine
(4) ? Cooper,
(5) Duke Secrest
Back Row:
(1) Unknown
(2) Paul Dewey
(3) Eli Bodine, Jr.
(4) Umpire unknown
(5) Unknown
(6) Bobby Hammond
(7) Earl Van Gorder
(8) Dean Peters
(9) Umpire Bill Stanton? |
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Colorful aside about Earl Van Gorder from Burt Beers:
Much to my surprise (his age,I would thought, would have ruled
him out) I'm fairly sure that the seventh man in the back row is Earl Van
Gorder. He lived in the first house to the east of Wyncoop Creek (directly
across from the Casterline's) on Rt 17 (now #60). Earl loved baseball above
all. Usually played shortstop; good fielder and could field ground balls
and tag batters out before they reached first. I knew him well, since,
whenever there was time during water plant lunch breaks he was ready to
play catch with me, or do the same if I rode my bike over to his house.
He had farmed for several years as a tenant on the river flats below Waverly
Hill, but the Depression killed that.
Fortunately he applied for a job when a place opened at the plant
(CSW), so he finished out his life--quite literally--with the CSW. In his
last years he had some heart trouble that he survived until one morning
while he was standing beside a conveyer while his truck destined for Binghamton
was being loaded (he no longer could lift anything) when the fellow beside
Earl heard Earl say sofltly, "Well, here I go," as he dropped to the floor.
He was dead when he reached to pavement.
Aside from being one of my "good playmates" the Van Gorders bcame
famiy friends. Earl's wife Ellen was a superb cook and she and my mother
collaborated on family gatherings on Saturday suppers and everyone gathered
later around the radio listening to "Your Hit Parade". I imagine that we
looked much like the photos that you see these days of life in the 193os.
Burt
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Published On Tri-Counties Site On 24 JUL 2007
By Joyce M. Tice
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