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Where are you now?

Chuck Hildebrand — Thu, 07/09/2009 - 13:27

Any former Campbell youth baseball player who wants to be included on this page should contact Chuck Hildebrand (charles_hildebrand@att.net) . Besides contact information, we'll post anything else you'd like your former Campbell baseball teammates to know on this page. In time, we hope to make this a Campbell youth baseball alumni directory, which in turn should help to maintain and extend the legacy of The Last Baseball Town.

Did You Know?

Chuck Hildebrand — Tue, 03/31/2009 - 09:36

.... that longtime Campbell High baseball coach Gordon Huntze played two sports while attending San Jose State? One, naturally, was baseball. Do you know the other?
 
... that George Tsamis, who played for Campbell Little League's national championship team in 1979 and went on to pitch for the Minnesota Twins in 1993, is the only major leaguer to have been born within the Campbell city limits?
 

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Table of Contents

Chuck Hildebrand — Tue, 03/31/2009 - 09:34

  • Introduction: Why Campbell was The Last Baseball Town
  • PART I: THE PLACE AND THE PINNACLES
    • 1909-1953: Beginnings
    • 1954-1958: Organization
    • 1959-1962: Transition
    • 1962 Moreland Little League: ‘Big Ben and a flock of pocket watches’
    • 1964 Campbell Moreland Pony League: The best Campbell team ever?
    • 1963-1969: Emergence
    • 1970 Campbell Little League: The Cardiac Kids
    • 1970-1975: Close, but ...
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