Most, like Walt Hammersley, won't make it. Time has changed the local game. The uniforms look different. The team now plays games on Sundays. Rickety Cone Park, the team's home from 1902-29, is now the site of a motel.
Bats certainly have one thing in common.
N.Y. Seeing a couple parading on South Elm Street by The McAdoo Hotel where Hammersley roomed caused him more despair than a batter hammering his best pitch for a home run. Hammersley, for all his homesickness, is Greensboro property once again. Frank Keetz, a baseball artifact collector from Schenectady, N.Y., sold the items to the Greensboro Historical Museum recently, along with baseball trading cards of Hammersley that Keetz tracked down. But I feel it belongs in Greensboro because it's local history. The collection surfaced in 1980 after Hammersley's widow died in Waterford.