BTS:5 - Between the Seasons 5: Safe at Home: Baseball in Anchorage – Part 2 w/ Katie Ringsmuth

Between the Seasons 5: Safe at Home: Baseball in Anchorage – Part 2 w/ Katie Ringsmuth

 

In this Between the Seasons episode we will continue talking baseball in Anchorage with our guest Katie Ringsmuth.  Katie is the Alaska State historian, a professor of History at the University of Alaska Anchorage. She is a baseball fan who curated the exhibition Home Field Advantage: Baseball in the Far North at the Anchorage Museum in 2015 and authored the article  “Fields of Dreamers: Baseball in Anchorage, Alaska” in the book Imagining Anchorage: The Making of America's Northernmost Metropolis in 2018.

 

Links to Photos:

1915 Anchorage 4^th of July Baseball Game

https://vilda.alaska.edu/digital/collection/cdmg2/id/131/

 

1915 Anchorage Team(s) for the 4^th of July Baseball Game

https://vilda.alaska.edu/digital/collection/cdmg2/id/353

https://www.facebook.com/TundraVision/photos/354451121616027

 

Game on the Field Where the Anchorage Museum Now Stands

https://www.facebook.com/TundraVision/photos/354450228282783

https://vilda.alaska.edu/digital/collection/cdmg2/id/329/rec/4

 

Baseball Grounds at Potter Creek

https://vilda.alaska.edu/digital/collection/cdmg2/id/4606/rec/1

 

1915 Newsreel of Anchorage

https://vilda.alaska.edu/digital/collection/cdmg11/id/35593/

 

Benefit Ballgame Game

https://vilda.alaska.edu/digital/collection/cdmg2/id/6313/rec/31

 

Anchorage v. Seward Game 1915

https://www.facebook.com/TundraVision/photos/354450504949422

 

Seward v. Anchorage Baseball Series –  August 1916 – Seward Newspaper accounts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKYk0Yjxlic

 

1914 Women’s Indoor Team

https://vilda.alaska.edu/digital/collection/cdmg2/id/325/rec/1

 

Program for Satchel Paige’s 1965 Visit to Anchorage

https://www.facebook.com/TundraVision/photos/354450921616047

 

Alaska Baseball League Players

https://www.alaskapublic.org/2015/07/03/homefield-advantage-baseball-in-the-far-north/

https://www.newsminer.com/sports/baseball/tom-seaver-75-dies-former-goldpanner-left-lasting-impression-playing-with-the-new-york-mets/article_50e74612-ee5d-11ea-ac7e-77c4d4bee2ce.html

https://www.ebay.com/itm/363157972465

https://www.tcdb.com/GalleryP.cfm/pid/6362/Dave-Winfield?ColType=0&sYear=0&sTeam=Alaska%20Goldpanners&sCardNum=&sNote=&sSetName=

 

Links to More on Anchorage Baseball History:

https://www.adn.com/culture/slideshow/photos-baseball-far-north/2015/05/15/

 

https://pointstreak.com/news_story.html?id=149432

 

https://www.alaskapublic.org/2016/04/06/video-frontier-baseball/

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txW0gWU3nrs

 

https://www.alaskapublic.org/2016/10/07/revisiting-alaska-baseball-history/

 

https://www.adn.com/culture/article/innings-under-midnight-sun/2015/05/15/

 

https://www.alaskapublic.org/2015/07/03/homefield-advantage-baseball-in-the-far-north/