Best known picture of Pitts Leaving Sing Sing with his mother in high res

 

Duncan Park in Spartanburg, SC

https://ballparks.smugmug.com/Duncan-Park-Spartanburg-South-Carolina?fbclid=IwY2xjawHAD3FleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHbEkFgpSK1ggS7kTSaVKHxlPfmQiwSja7mqPpCsp0ZcHtI-8_I8yqy-TPQ_aem_96RJ-vK3W3dKWgWYEg7i3A 

Rare Newspapers if you are so inclined

https://www.rarenewspapers.com/view/639000?srsltid=AfmBOoqr5lA7KgMcpculWSABFpDY35pvg6elDjIDNgGbsAaW2C4DdY4W 

Second Wife

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/269122235/mary_taltha_stone 

Daughter

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/112990678/patricia_ann_carchidi 

From Find a Grave, with incorrect birth date

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/107803503/edwin-collins-pitts 

From Colorado Paper 1935

https://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=RMD19350606-01.2.206&e=-------en-20--1--img-txIN%7ctxCO%7ctxTA--------0------ 

Baseball in Catawba County Part One

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra8k_KV-oz0 

  Two films (The Billion Dollar Scandal and Over the Wall) produced in the 1930s were inspired by his life story, and he was fatally stabbed at a tavern in June 1941.

On Ebay

https://www.ebay.com/itm/353979262686 

Pitts Article from Gale Research

https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA206988770&sid=googleScholar&v=2.1&it=r&linkaccess=abs&issn=0887493X&p=LitRC&sw=w&userGroupName=anon%7E9242a48c&aty=open-web-entry 

1935 Coverage of Pitts in CO newspapers

https://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=RMD19350606-01&e=-------en-20--1--img-txIN%7ctxCO%7ctxTA--------0------ 

In this article they call Pitts a Negro convict

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-kilgore-news-herald/47942222/ 

Copy of Judge Landis Decision on Pitts

https://cdm17336.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/u0001_2007010/id/109478 

SABR article on Pitts from Hank Utley research

https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/alabama-pitts/ 

Birmingham News Article that focuses on Pitts' mother

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-birmingham-news/40886632/ 

Pitts playing off season basketball

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-philadelphia-inquirer/97951873/ 

Pitts' Death Covered in Chlot Observer

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-charlotte-observer/47471297/ 

Second Marriage in Valdese, NC

https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news/47983682/ 

1935 article on Pitts

https://www.newspapers.com/image/400769121/?clipping_id=97952412&fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjQwMDc2OTEyMSwiaWF0IjoxNzI0MjQ4MjIwLCJleHAiOjE3MjQzMzQ2MjB9.-ZhOT3oHvdiDMq_4tflcnjsmBJ4SiL8P-Q3Lkv18RdU 

Come on, Baseball Reference, those independent league stats are easily available

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=pitts-001edw 

A Discussion w WP Kinsella

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBCS-hn5Q7g 

William Steele on WP Kinsella

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SZGjZ2Zne0 

Baseball Poem

 

What We Would Call History

 

Babe Pinelli finished his career

Behind the plate in Don Larsen’s

1956 World Series perfect game,

Calling balls and strikes as Larsen,

Who two years before led the league

In losses, worked his better than

Average fastball for seven strikeouts,

Throwing only 97 pitches against

A completely stacked Dodger lineup,

Which featured four future hall of famers.

When Dale Mitchell pinch hit,

The 27^th batter faced, with a .312

Lifetime batting average,

The perfect spoiler villain,

Larsen worked him to a two strike count,

And then the fastball came

A couple inches outside.

But Pinelli rang him up

With the final called strike

Of his 21-year career,

And then there was Yogi

Jumping in Larsen’s arms

Which is all we remember,

And what we would call history.

Alabama Pitts Wiki

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama_Pitts 

Alcatraz, Home Plate

 

My favorite of the Tim Coffey Baseball Poems--Like Ed Pitts, he lived it out in Burke County, had the Duende and certainly the spirit of AP

 

Coffey’s 62^nd, Between the Bases 

 

Thinking of Tim on his 62^nd, 

How when we played ball he was 

Forever caught in a rundown 

While the world moved on about us, 

Gliding as fast backward as forward, 

Chipped front tooth from a missed 

Half gainer from the high dive, 

“Moe” haircut flopping 

As he abruptly stopped and juke stepped, 

So confident, so elusive, 

No one would ever capture him: 

Ragtag catcher, rocket armed shortstop, 

Umpire, referee, swimmer, golfer, 

Baller, brawler, church deacon, 

Brother, uncle, husband, friend, 

Restaurant manager, salesman. 

Thinking of Tim on his 62^nd, 

Sixteen years since the Big C 

Tagged him out, 

How he’d have been playing 

With house money today, as they say. 

 

Candlestick Park Farewell Vid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXl4IYwyKdg