Baseball and LXA

GammaZeta · #1 10-20-2004, 11:57 PM

RED SOX WIN!!!
Being from New England I am a big Red Sox fan. Now that they're going to the World Series, I thought some trivia may be fun. I have two questions:

1. Are there any LXA's that played in the major leagues? Or for the Red Sox?

2. Since the Red Sox last won the World Series in 1918, can someone tell the history of LXA for that year?

Tom Earp · #2 10-21-2004, 05:40 PM

GammaZeta, Yea Red Sox!

Yes there are many Brothers who have played Base Ball, Football.

Check lambdachi.org.

We are not the oldest Fraternity, but We aint bad.

Oh, yes, many other things that LXAs have done or been!

GammaZeta · #3 10-21-2004, 05:45 PM

Hi Tom,

Yeah I checked the site. But I thought maybe there were a few "no names".

But the 1918 history would be interesting for me. After all, the Red Sox used to play at the BU field before Fenway Park. And BU is our Alpha chapter. So at the same time our fraternity was getting it's legs, Boston Red Sox were losing theirs.

docroc67 · #4 10-21-2004, 06:15 PM

Good Day,

I haven't gone to the Lambda Chi webpage but I do know that Gordon "Mickey" Cochrane, Philadelphia Athletics, was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha.

Yours in ZAX,

Mike Raymond, ZUZ

Tom Earp · #5 10-21-2004, 06:59 PM

HM, interesting to say the least.

Not a big BB Fan or sports for the over paid dicks that they are!

Oh, let me include All Super Sports that All are over paid for.

Yep, check out IHQ site.

We aint Geeks! We are Greeks! LXA Greeks!

GammaZeta · #6 10-21-2004, 09:46 PM

So what about what was happening in 1918? I'm not too up to speed on that early a year in our history.

JonoBN41 · #7 10-21-2004, 10:38 PM

Syracuse, New Hampshire State College, U. Richmond, Ohio U., Wabash College, Western Reserve U., Colby, and University of Washington were all chartered in 1918.

I still keep in touch with a high school friend who's grandfather was a founding member at Syracuse in 1918. In fact, my father used to work for that brother, growing potatoes (our fraternity veg!) in the 1930s.

ZAX,
Jono

JonoBN41 · #8 10-23-2004, 12:33 AM

Today I went for a walk in a very small cemetary and it was a good day for it. Cool, cloudy, falling leaves, a mist in the air before I arrived and after I left.

In my previous post I mentioned the grandfather of a good friend of mine who was a Lambda Chi. I can say "was" in this case because he's deceased. That's about as "was" as you can get.

His name is Ferris G. Talmage and I think he was a member of the Commons Club at Syacuse and a founder of Alpha Upsilon in 1918 since he's listed as Class of 1918. My dad worked for him. I went to the cemetary to find out when he died, which was April 7, 1968 when I was 15 years old. Maybe I met him; maybe I didn't. Doesn't matter, but that's the year our local (EKD) was started at FIT, so that's a connection.

What does this have to do with baseball and LXA? I found this online: "The fans who attended the Freetown games were diehard baseball fans, hungry for baseball, and would go anywhere, within reason, to watch a game. They religiously followed their favorite Major League clubs, because baseball was a choice subject of discussion among them. Ferris Talmage's father, Billy, rarely missed seeing a game if it was being played in the East Hampton, Amagansett, or Springs area."

Billy (William) is buried there too. Across the little driveway, I walked up the grass to a large boulder where Jackson Pollack is buried. My dad was friends with him also, artists they were. Pollack died in a car crash in 1956, my dad lasted only four more years.

Brother Ferris Talmage outlived them both, and is listed in the 1968 Directory of the New York Metropolitan Alumni Association, which was published the year he died. There they are, the abstract looking down at the solid LCA farmer.

I write this only as a diversion to the other postings of late and as a reminder that we are all mortal, and doing the best we can while we are here. That's the only thing we can do.

If you understand what I'm saying, listen to this...from Ecclesiastes.

"Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return unto God, who gave it."

In Z A X,
Jono

Tom Earp · #9 10-23-2004, 03:01 PM

LXA Web site lists 3.

Fergie Jenknes, Larry Dierker, and Billy Williams.

As Boz pointed out, Billy Williams was an AI Member, not sure if rest were or not.

1918, wow that will be tuff to did out for certain!

boz130 · #10 10-24-2004, 10:06 PM

For the record, the honoraries from Beta-Omicron are Ron Santo (hopefully HOF someday), Billy Williams & Fergie Jenkins.

ZAX,
BF