Connie Coughlin's Baseball Team-1911

My grandfather, Connie Coughlin, played shortstop for the Marotta AC baseball club, which was the Cleveland Class B champion in 1911. At the time, my Grampa was 20 years old. Sandlot baseball, amateur or semi-pro, was huge in Cleveland early in the 20th Century. Geez, it was huge when I was a kid watching Cleveland Class A ball in Euclid, at Memorial Park in the early 1960s.

Bob Hope participated in the Marotta Athletic Club as a young man--boxing. He even tried out for one of my Grampa's baseball teams (he didn't make it; got cut).