On this day in 1952 my Uncle, Jim Hughes was called up by the Brooklyn Dodgers from their Montreal farm team.
The Newspaper excerpt reads as follows.
Jim Hughes, 28, a former Chicago sandlot baseball star and this season a star relief hurler with Montreal in the International League, yesterday was called up to finish the season with the Brooklyn Dodgers, National League leaders.
The 6 foot 2 inch right hander received his start in baseball in the Chicago Baseball League, a sandlot organization that for 25 years has been headed by his father, Chicago Frie Department Captain Bill Hughes of hook and ladder company No. 15, 8th battalion.
Jim, a marine veteran, was graduated from Calumet Highschool.
Always looking for Blackhawk hockey, Notre Dame Football, White Sox and Bears Stuff. I have a plaque in my card room that says, "I could have been a millionaire but my mom threw out my baseball cards". How apropos!!! Collecting Chicago Blackhawks Hockey, Doug Wilson Hockey, Chicago Bears Older, Notre Dame Football in their college jerseys and Chicago White Sox.
