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Frank WakefieldI see this stuff about the Titanic and newspapers, gotta tell you this:
Hub Perdue is in T206, with Nashville, a southern leaguer, and is in Cracker Jack. He was from Gallatin, TN, less than an hour from here. He was quite a fellow, was elected county clerk after years in the minors and a few in the ML.
Hub had 2 regrets with his ML career. First, he was traded from the 1914 Boston team that had the great turnaround and pennant run. He missed out on a World Championship.
Secondly, the best game of his major league career was on an opening day against Christy Mathewson and Mr. McGraw's Giants. Hub pitched a complete game, allowing only 3 hits, not a run, on a cold, rainy day. The next day his great game wasn't prominent in the newspapers, to Hub's dismay. The papers were covering the Titanic, instead. April 15, 1912 was Hub's day, too.