Last month here in Norfolk, Rachel and I went to an incredible photography exhibit at the Chrysler Museum. The exhibit, believe it or not, was not about baseball. Rather, it was about one of my other passions in life – music. Paul McCartney’s … Continue reading Tales Of The Quonset Flyers Baseball Team – John Patrick, The Missing Man
In the Spring and Summer of 2023, I began researching baseball played at North Kingstown’s Quonset Point Naval Air Station. Quonset Point or the Quonset Development Corporation, now a thriving business community, was once a commissioned naval air station and occupied … Continue reading The Fields Where The Quonset Flyers Faced NAS Norfolk, Little Creek Baseball Teams
I have had so much fun compiling news articles about the Quonset Point Naval Air Station’s connection to baseball in the years prior to its decommissioning in 1974. Through the Providence College Archives and Special Collections group, I have found … Continue reading The Quonset Point Naval Air Station Baseball Experience – Flyers Flying High Over The Competition
One of the incredible things about researching a topic is the interesting tangents you can encounter along your research expedition. In a previous blog, I mentioned that I had been doing some research on a field of my youth, a … Continue reading The Quonset Point Naval Air Station Baseball Experience – The Flyers, The Fields, The Feller
I have lived in the Town of North Kingstown, RI (off and on) for the past 51 years. The same time period when my parents bought a house on Ten Rod Road in 1974 and according to RIAMCO (The Rhode … Continue reading Revisiting The Fields Of My Youth – Quonset Point NAS Softball Field
The Baseball Storyteller 