Showing posts with label Rogers Hornsby. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rogers Hornsby. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Legends of Baseball - Round Rock Express

2000-Aug-28 Round Rock TX

The Round Rock Express are a Minor League Baseball team of the Pacific Coast League and the Triple-A affiliate of the Texas Rangers. They are located in Round Rock, Texas, and play their home games at the Dell Diamond. The team is named for Baseball Hall of Famer and Texas native Nolan Ryan, who was nicknamed "The Ryan Express." Ryan, along with son Reid Ryan and Don Sanders make up the team's ownership group, Ryan Sanders Baseball. The Express were established as a Double-A team of the Texas League in 2000.

Monday, August 4, 2025

Baseball School - Instructional camp

1939-Jan-15 St Louis Mo
Rogers Hornsby Baseball College
1958 - Tampa Fl
Ken Boyer Florida Baseball School
1960s unused Don Zimmer Florida Baseball School
1988 - Flushing New York

Saturday, December 5, 2020

Rogers Hornsby -

Rogers Hornsby - The Rajah
(1915-1937) St Louis Cardinals; New York Giants; Boston Braves; Chicago Cubs' St Louis Browns
National League Most Valuable Player (1925, 1929)
Triple Crown (1922, 1925)
National League Batting Champion (1920-1925, 1928)
National League RBI Leader (1920-1922, 1925)

Manager: (1925-1953) St Louis Cardinals; NY Giants; Boston Braves; Chicago Cubs; St Louis Browns; Cincinnati Reds

Baseball Hall of Fame (1942)
St Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame (2014)

Rogers Hornsby example of a dual postmarked envelope spelling out a players name, signed by the player
Kenny Z  - 
Wheat Collector features envelopes with dual player name postmarks
Rogers Hornsby signed Cubs stationery - part of an auction for signed letter with envelope
1996-Apr-27 Hornsby TN : Bernard Goldberg #/50
100th anniversary Hornsby’s birth Winters TX