The Day the Bronx Bomber Played in Kensington
...f the many independent semi-professional baseball teams in Philadelphia. In 1923 the Ascension Catholic Club was in serious financial trouble. The club had built a new field at I and Tioga Sts. and was deeply in debt. Father William Casey, pastor of Ascension, was desperately seeking some way to defray
The Immaculata Mighty Macs
...and reveling in the opportunity to play hard. Immaculata vs. West Chester, 1974 The 1972 championship team just barely made it into the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) tournament that year. (The NCAA Women's Division Championship was not inaugurated until the 1981-82 season.) Though the team had a
Anti-Catholicism in Jacksonian Philadelphia
...of St. John the Evangelist Church, who later gained notoriety as bishop of New York. Bishop John Hughes, circa 1861 As a way to present his side of the argument, Hughes started The Catholic Herald, the first long lived diocesan paper in Philadelphia. The newspaper would become the mouthpiece for
A “petulant girl”?: Josephine Walsh’s diaries
...had the expense of paper, ink and time!" Walsh on the business of writing. 1906 diary, page 1. Walsh on the business of writing. 1906 diary, page 2. Josie wanted to be a writer, but this was a tough dream for a woman in the early twentieth century. It appears