Here's one...paraphrased
"There was this lady that was very interested in a career minor leaguer named Ed Matthew, who played from 1909 - 1913 for seven different league teams, including a town named Traverse City, Michigan, where the lady and her family now live. But Ed Matthew is not a distant relative, so why the interest?
"Ed Matthew is a ghost in our house," she stated.
The family moved into the house in the summer of 2011, and by the fall, THEY REALIZED THEY WERE NOT ALONE.
"I knew nothing about baseball before this." she noted. "I was coming up the stairs, and there was this man, with baggy pants, horizontally striped socks, and a baseball cap that looked very old fashioned, with a shorter brim than they have today."
Eventually, through multiple sightings, the lady and her husband were able to converse with the ghost, and learned his name was Ed Matthew, and that he had lived in their home when he played for the Traverse City Resorters in the Midwest League in 1912. The Resorters' ballpark was a block away.
After the first sighting, the couple went to the historical society and the library, and learned that Matthew had signed a contract in December of 1913 with the Chicago White Stockings, but was released in February the following year.
When they asked him why he was released, he responded "I fell."
Where had he fallen, they asked? "Freemont Freesoil," came the response. Later they learned that the towns of Freemont and Freesoil were consecutive stops on the train line from Manistee to Chicago, where Matthew may have been headed to report to the White Stockings.
The couple decided not to mention the ghost to their 10 yr old daughter, Susie, in order to not frighten her...BUT THEN SHE SAW HIM TOO!"
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