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Pacific Coast League Pacific Coast League Historical Society Pacific Coast League Pacific Coast League Historical Society JANUARY 2018 PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE HISTORICAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTER VOL. 32, NO. 1 President Emeritus The Banning of Tobacco in the Pacific Coast League Dick Beverage By Mark Macrae Director Happy New Year !! Don’t get too smoked up, Mark Macrae but 2018 marks the 25th year that all forms of tobacco use have been banned in minor league Advisory Committee baseball . The rule prohibits players, coaches Dave Eskenazi and umpires from using tobacco in the ballpark Zak Ford or on the team buses. Bob Hoie The health risks associated with tobacco use Alan O’Connor have been well documented for decades, and Joye Ogrodowski most people reading this article will remember Ray Saraceni a time when tobacco use was a significant part Bill Swank of the American culture. But did you know that at one time, baseball and tobacco were very Inside This Issue: close allies. Tobacco advertising regularly lined • The Banning of Tobacco the outfield walls of ballparks, and it was rare to in the PCL pick up a scorecard without at least one tobacco by Mark Macrae related advertisement. During the first week of the Pacific Coast • Joe Sprinz & the Dropped Baseball Incident by Joye Ogrodowski Obak cigarette pack which contained the • Spirits of the West Wind PCL/Northwest League baseball cards. by Bill Swank League’s existence (beginning March 26, 1903) the program for the San Francisco club con- • Edmonds Field Blaze tained four such advertisements for tobacco in- by Alan O’Connor cluding a full page advertisement for El Telegrafo • Ther Greatest? Cigars on the back cover. by Eric Nelson By the end of the PCL’s first decade, beautiful color lithographed baseball cards of Pacific • Oral History: PCL Coast League and Northwest League players Legend Tony Freitas were inserted into packs of Obak cigarettes and by Zak Ford sold up and down the West Coast. In 1911, a • The Hutch Award second brand of cigarettes (Mono cigarettes) & a Link to the PCL began inserting black and white photos of Pa- by Stan Opdyke cific Coast League players, though most of those were distributed in California. Several hundred • PCL Encyclopedia different cards were issued from 1909-1911. The Updates following year, cigarette insert cards of PCL play- • Epilogue El Telegrafo cigar ad which adorns the back cover ers ceased to exist. Although their distribution of this 1903 San Francisco baseball program. By Mark Macrae Continued on Page 10 Contact Us at PCL Historical Society | PO Box 2111 | Castro Valley, CA 94546 PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE HISTORICAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTER How a Baseball Dropped From a Blimp Became a Deadly Weapon By Joye Ogrodowski (Disclaimer: There are several versions of this event on the internet and in books. The number of teeth Joe lost (four, five, or eight), the number of fractures he sustained to his jaw (11 or 12), and the number of baseballs dropped from the blimp (three, four, or five), vary from account to account.) The Good Year blimp “Volunteer” hovered 800 feet above Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay, the site of the 1939 World’s Fair/Golden Gate International Exposition. It was Au- gust 3, San Francisco Seals catcher Joseph Conrad Sprinz’s 37th birthday. In celebration of Baseball Day at the Fair, and the 100th an- niversary of America’s national pastime, the Seals arranged a promotional event and invited Joe to be the star participant. He later admitted, as per the Oakland Tribune, that he wasn’t sure why he got the honor of being the ball-drop guy. “Maybe it was because that day was my birthday, or maybe it was be- cause I was the only one crazy enough to try it.” As Harry Borba of The San Francisco Examiner described the event the following day, “Rivalling the speed of light in its downward flight, a white baseball plummets earthward. Be- neath it and gauging its meteoric fall as it flashes against the afternoon sun, is a sturdy young man wearing a baseball uni- form, his left hand enclosed in a big mitt. “Some 1,200 persons, mostly kids celebrating the baseball’s anniversary with their idols, the San Francisco Seals, on Treas- ure Island, gazed in rapt admiration as the ball falls with the flash of a spent rocket, and Joe Sprinz, ace catcher of the local team, lifts his hands above his head to catch it.” You could cut the tension with a knife. Three baseballs were dropped from the blimp by World War 1 bombing ace Capt. Seals backstop Joe Sprinz “staggered a few steps as he grasped A.T. Sewell. One of the his mouth with both hands. He fell forward and writhed in agony speeding bullets was car- as his teammates rushed toward him. When he fell, a muffled ried by a gust of wind and groan from the crowd (of about 1200) went up.” SF Examiner reporter Harry Borba fell into the grandstands; one buried itself in the was traveling at approximately 228 feet per second, or 150 grass; the third… miles per hour. The force of the ball caused his glove to slam “I was shading my eyes into his face, shattering his upper jaw and cracking it in (mul- from the sun,” Joe ex- tiple places), crushing his nose, and knocking out several teeth. plained. “The ball came so “My lips were like hamburgers,” Joe said. “I was in the hos- fast, I didn’t have a chance pital (St. Joseph’s in San Francisco) for three months. We were to turn the glove to catch fighting for the pennant and only had one other catcher, Larry it.” Woodall. “It was the worst thing that ever happened to me. I According to The San could have been killed.” Francisco Chronicle, it was As for further promotional events, Seals president Charles estimated that by the time Graham declared, “No more stunts in which players take part.” the ball hit Joe’s glove, it The Chronicle ‘s Ed. R. Hughes wrote: “All the latest stunt cost Continued on Page 3 PAGE 2 For Further Information, Contact Mark Macrae | [email protected] PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE HISTORICAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTER How a Baseball Dropped From a Blimp… continued from page 2 the Seals was the services of Joe Sprinz, the best catcher in the January 28, 1977 (A Letter from Joe from the Collection of Ray Saraceni) league. They say that Joe will live, so he cannot be seriously Dear Jim… hurt, but the durable Dutchman is suffering plenty at St. Thank you for the clipping. It was Joseph’s Hospital and the Seals’ catching staff is well riddled. Several weeks nice of you to mail it to me. Also that before the Supposing Sprinz had caught that ball tossed from a height of you were pleased with the auto- blimp event, graphed picture. 800 feet? He would have gotten about one line in small type. Sprinz and his teammates, With regards to that stunt I tried He did not catch it, so he is in St. Joseph’s Hospital pretty well Larry Woodall, years ago, I’ll give you a short run- and Will bashed up.“ Leonard, made down on what happened. freak history of In 1939 at the SF Words Fair, catching base- which was on Treasure Island, Walter balls thrown from the top of Mails, a former big league pitcher and the Tower of the publicity man for the SF Seals Ball the Sun by manager Lefty Club, had three of the catchers try and O’Doul. Yester- catch baseballs tossed from the Tower day they were of the Sun on Treasure Island. O’Doul, trying to better the mark of 758 our manager, dropped the balls, about feet, a world 450 feet from the tower. Larry record held by Woodall and Will Leonard caught a an Ohio Sena- tor who caught few and Joe caught five. So Mails got a ball thrown another idea to have a Good Year from the top of Blimp drop a ball from about 1200 Terminal Tower in Cleveland. feet. This was on August 3, 1939, my birthday - 37 years old. Anyway, sev- eral of the players and myself stood around until the blimp was over the ball field on Treasure Island. All walked off and I was it. Said to myself, God hates a coward, so I was going to try it. I had to look directly into the sun and shade my eyes from the sun. The first two balls that the pilot dropped, one went into the stands, opposite side of the stands, where people were watching. The other ball I saw was out of my reach. The fourth ball I saw all the way, and it looked The discoloration on this ball, signed by the captain of the blimp, like the size of an aspirin tablet. It hit “Volunteer,” is due to the remanents of Joe’s blood, well my lips, both lacerated very badly. I preserved after nearly 80 years. lost five teeth but was not knocked out. Was in the hospital for three For five years after the accident, Sprinz suffered with recur- months, and when I was released, saw ring headaches. This did not, however, drain him of his catch- the dentist and had my mouth wired ing ability. Joe batted .312 for the 1939 season, with a .980 up for another two months. Also had fielding percentage, and the Seals finished in second place, 11 pinstripe cracks on my upper jaw. sporting a 97-78 record. They lost to the Seattle Rainiers in the The Lord was good to me to give first round of the playoffs.
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