Softball Game
Nycon[edit]
The First Worldcon featured a softball game, held at "Flushing Flats" -- a big athletic field opposite James V. Taurasi's home in Flushing. The teams were called the "Queens Cometeers" and the "PSFS Panthers" -- though the membership wasn't exclusively from the Queens SFL or the PSFS.
More details at New Fandom #6 p8-9.
Queens Cometeers:
- Sam Moskowitz (shortstop and captain)
- Langley Searles (p-rf)
- A. Meyers (first base)
- Stan Backrack (second base)
- Pete Racic (center field)
- Jimmy Taurasi (third base)
- B. Mosher (right field)
- Julius Unger (c)
- John Giunta (lf-p)
- Erle Korshak (sf)
PSFS Panthers:
- John Baltadonis (3b-P and captain)
- Jack Newton (second base)
- Jack Agnew (third base)
- Bob Madle (first base)
- Ray Van Houten (left field)
- Vincent Kidwell (center field)
- Will Sykora (p-rf)
- Art Widner (rf-p)
- Ossie Train (c)
- Mark Reinsberg (sf)
Mr. Charles Sykora umpired, Mario Racic, Jr., was water boy.
The score by innings was
| Queens Cometeers | 3 2 2 3 6 0 7 0 0 | 23 |
| PSFS Panthers | 0 0 0 1 2 4 0 3 1 | 11 |
Spectators included Jack Speer, Charles D. Hornig, Ross Rocklynne, Hyman Tiger, and Millie Taurasi.
Chicon[edit]
The second Worldcon in Chicago also held a “Science Fiction Softball Game on Tuesday, Sept 3, 1940. “Two select All-Fan Teams battle for the Championship,” announced the program book. Fanhistory does not record whether they played Chicago-style 16-inch softball.
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