The Story of Joe Medwick and Summit

by Arthur Cotterell

The time is the summer of 1928 and over at Memorial Field in Summit there is a hight school sophomore who is paling for the semi-professional Summit Red Sox of the Lackawanna Baseball League. This young athlete, who is creating quite a bit of interest playing with players who are older and have a great deal more experience some former professionals, is Joe Medwick of Carteret High School.

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