Ballplayers Stabbed During a Saloon Fight: A Brief List
July 24, 2014
Among the details regarding his life which might most immediately lend themselves to an illustrative portrait of Edwin “Alabama” Pitts are both how he (a) somehow entered the Navy at age 15 and also (b) distinguished himself among Sing Sing’s inmates as that correctional facility’s most talented of athletes.
After finishing his prison sentence, Pitts played both baseball and football professionally. After that, he made the decision to visit a combination filling station, tavern, and swimming pool (as one does). After that, he was stabbed during a saloon fight and died.
Image from June 8th, 1941, edition of St. Petersburg Times.
Carson Cistulli has published a book of aphorisms called Spirited Ejaculations of a New Enthusiast.
Newspaper writers fancied themselves as poets back then, I doubt anyone would write about “life ebbing” or anything “ebbing”, really.
Except for notgraphs slowly ebbing away