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D BrownI'll use this suddenly "new" thread to ask for help. My maternal great grandfather played in the MINK league in Nebraska, and then in Iowa (not sure if that was in the MINK or not) in the teens. If anyone has material about the MINK from the era, I'd love to hear about it -- g-g-father was Ledger Free, played for the Auburn (Nebraska) Athletics in 1910-1913, then, I've heard, moved on to play in Waterloo, Iowa. (Not the Lulus by then, not sure of the team name.) If anyone knows of deep midwest minor league resources, or might have postcards, programs, or etc. related to baseball in these towns, please let me now. (There is the phenomenal Nebraska Minor League Baseball site: http://marian.creighton.edu/~besser/baseball/second.html)
Family legend has it that L.D. (as he was known) got as far as a tryout for the Pirates, maybe in the mid or late teens, but had the flu and did not make the team. That's the story.
thanks
David