Thanks, Mary! In light of Mary's comments, I'd say Patti's only hope of finding out more about the team -- and I have to stress this would be a REAL longshot -- is if there was a local neighborhood paper that has been preserved at a local branch library. My mother's family was from SW Phila.; their neighborhood was Clearview, a bordering neighborhood was The Meadows. Both had local papers and the closest branch of the FLP today is in The Meadows (I think, this is all hearsay), where the paper from The Meadows is preserved but the Clearview one is not. And note, this is in the branch library, not the main FLP newspaper collection. However, I'd imagine the local papers would still talk mostly about scores, not so much about who the players' family members were. If that's the kind of information Patti's looking for (e.g., "official"' team records of players, their addresses, dues, or whatever), I'd say there's probably a one in a million chance that anything like that would survive. Hope this helps, Patti. Claire K. On Feb 12, 2007, at 10:04 AM, Mary Finley wrote: > I was born and raised in West Philadelphia and 60th St. was then > and is now > considered West Phila. (Cobbs Creek neighborhood now...West End then). > I would be very surprised if any records exist for a "West > Philadelphia > Cubs" base ball team other than what Patti found....a short tally of a > game's results. > I can tell Patti what it was like in my era (1938-1960) and surely > before > that. 60th St. was the business district. Lots of little > storefronts with > families living behind and above their shops. By the 1920's and > probably > before that a great many stores were run by hardworking Jewish > families. > Our baker, tailor, shoemaker, etc. were all Jewish. The shoemaker > would > come out from his living room directly behind the shop to wait on > you. I can > still remember the wonderful aromas from the Jewish Deli. > We Catholic kids had wonderful hot bagels long before they became > readily > avaiable and "hot"! > > I hope this isn't too far off topic! > > Mary McCanney Finley > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Claire K" <seekay@comcast.net> > To: <philly-roots@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 12:30 AM > Subject: Re: [Phly-Rts] West Phil. Cubs 1921 baseball team > > >> Hi Patti, >> >> I'd guess it was not a school team, as they played the "Strawbridge & >> Clothier Juniors" (S&C being a department store, so either they were >> sponsored by S&C or they were employed there). My guess, based >> purely on that, would be that yours was a neighborhood team (hence >> the name "West Philadelphia Cubs") for young adults (assuming they'd >> be matched age-wise against a "junior" team). But maybe someone from >> West Philadelphia will have actual knowledge of this... >> >> Claire K. >> >> >> On Feb 11, 2007, at 8:16 PM, P Valverde wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> How can I find out about this baseball team? I don't >>> know if it's affiliated with a school or a local team. >>> I have a newspaper article that has a surname that I'm >>> researching. Just has this last name of player. I >>> think it would fit if S. 60th st. would be west >>> phila. in 1921. Any thoughts, advice or direction of >>> any kind would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. >>> Patti >> >> >> >> ********* >> Visit the threaded archives of this list: >> http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PHILLY-ROOTS >> ********* >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> PHILLY-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >> without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > > > ********* > Visit the threaded archives of this list: http:// > archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PHILLY-ROOTS > ********* > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PHILLY-ROOTS- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message Claire K seekay@comcast.net