This is Arnold Coleman as he appeared in June 1970 as a member of the Bruce High School, Westernport, baseball team. Arnold also graduated from Bruce High School in 1970.
On July 17, 1979 eleven year old Crystal Fields of Cumberland won the national championship in her division in the National Pitch-Hit-Run Competition which was held in Seattle, Washington. A reception in her honor was held later in the week by the Mayor and City Council of Cumberland where Crystal received the, “Key to the City of Cumberland”.
"The Savage Seven" of the Allegany High School baseball team as they appeared in 1965. In the front row, left to right are Walter C. Crawford (class of 1967 and the son of Carver High School basketball and football coach Walter Crawford II), Don Wagner, and Dave Bruce. In the back row are, left to right, Jim Cornelius, Gary Rymer, Steve Vandenberg, and Mike Wilt.
Upon graduation, Walter Crawford went onto a lengthy career with Columbia Gas.
This 1966 photograph depicts the Dapper Dans Little League Baseball Team. In the front row is Mike Holly. In the second row, fourth and sixth from the left are Les and Clipper Holly. Seventh is Lionel Younger. In the back row, the coach, is Wayne Holly.
Mike Holly went on to play basketball in 1970 for Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church of Cumberland and graduated from Allegany High School in 1976.
These Frostburgers are, fourth from the left in the second row, Raymond Spriggs; in the third row, first and second from the left, Ron Frazier and Robbie Harper, respectively, and in the top row, fourth from the left, "Flooky" Biggs.
Little League baseball players
left top - Robert "Bobby" Powell in an early 1960s photograph of the Cumberland Rotary Hot Stove League Baseball Team. He was in the Allegany High School class of 1966.
right top - This is a late 1950s or early 1960s depiction of Gerald "Goo" Davis as a member of the Dapper Dan Little League Baseball All-Star Team.
John Brown's 1921 Cumberland Cubs remembered
By MIKE MASTRANGELO
Special to the Times-News
For a half century, our national pastime excluded black athletes from its fraternity. These black (base) ball players endured segregation and pursued the game they loved by establishing their own formal leagues and independent teams. They barnstormed against one another; and when their summer season was over in the United States, they traveled to Cuba, Mexico and South America to play in the more socially tolerant Latin American countries.
The tall man in the middle of the back row of this August 1921 team photo of the Cumberland Cubs is Clarence Smith. One of Cumberland's outstanding baseball pitchers of a half-century ago, he was better known as, "Cannonball" or "Bullet-Ball" due to his reputation as a fast-ball hurler. He was the strike-out king and mound ace for John Brown's "Cumberland Cubs". John Brown's Cubs played the best black teams of the early 1920's, including the Homestead Grays, Baltimore Black Sox, Harrisburg Giants, and Pittsburgh Orioles.
Clarence M. Smith, 1895 - 1969
Clarence Smith was one of Cumberland's outstanding baseball pitchers of a half-century ago. Better known as, "Cannonball" or "Bullet-Ball" due to his blazing fast balls, he was the strike-out king and ace pitcher for John Brown's "Cumberland Cubs." From 1923 to 1925 Smith pitched for the Fairmont, West Virginia Giants and in one game struck out 20 players, only to lose the game by one run to the Harrisburg Giants by a score of 5 to 4.