New Danville Boys' Baseball team. Front row, left to right: Ronald Baker, Romanus Scheid, Robert Heisey, Merle Conrad, Jerry Baker and Ronald Shavely. Middle row, left to right: Kenneth Baker, William Rittenhouse, Robert Cummings, Larry Ibach, Richard Scheid, ? Newswanger, ?. Back row, left to right: William Scheid, Robert Hertz, Jerry Baker, Charles Aument, John Ibach, Paul Meckley, James Booth, Ronald Shavely, Gerald Baker.
Provenance
Digital image only. Original owned by Conestoga Area Historical Society.
The Bowman Technical School was founded by watchmaker Ezra F. Bowman in 1887 to teach the trade of watchmaking and engraving. During World War I, the Bowman Technical School trained soldiers to repair delicate aviation and naval instruments.
Left to right: Bill Marshall, Franklin and Marshall Athletic Director; Howard Cosell, ABC Sports; Bowie Kuhn, Commissioner of Baseball; and Bruce Holran, F & M Director of Public relations, pose on campus.
Col. J. Hale Steinman, co-publisher of the Lancaster Newspapers, left, and Tommy Stouch, the oldest living professional baseball player in Lancaster, have a little warm-up session before they tossed out and caught the first ball that sent the Midget teams from Ephrata and the East End into action in last night's final at Stumpf Field
