Sports -- Baseball
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 58 Collections and/or Records:
Hyman, Sam, 1943 - 1984
File — Folder 3
Scope and Contents
This file focuses on Sam Hyman's participation in sports, both during his school days at Hartford High and Georgetown University as well as his semi-pro career in baseball's minor leagues. He was in the Detriot Tigers Franchise when Ty Cobb was the manager. Several articles recount the day when in his forties, he was convinced to pitch for the Hartford Senators, locking up his pharmacy for the afternoon to secure the win.The documents also talk breifly on his career as a...
Dates:
1943 - 1984
Isenberg, Dr. Phillip, 1980 - 1985
File — Folder 3
Scope and Contents
Many of the clippings deal with the brutal murder of Dr. Isenberg's daughter Caroline in 1984. The rest of the material talks about Isenberg's life and career as a Psychologist at Harvard and sports career for his Hall of Fame induction, including an article he wrote in 1980 for the Harvard Magazine in support of football.
Dates:
1980 - 1985
Kaplan, Louis “Kid”, 1925 - 2011
File — Folder 3
Scope and Contents
This file covers Louis "Kid" Kaplan's career as a featherwieght boxer as well as his inuction into several halls of fame including the JHSGH Sports Hall of Fame. Kaplan took up fighting in Russia as a boy to defend himself because he was so small and poor (his father was in the junk business and Louis peddled various items), and continuted when his family moved to Meriden, CT when he was 19. His young age led to his nickname "Kid". He became the featherweight champion on January 2, 1925 when...
Dates:
1925 - 2011
Karpman, Unknown
File — Box 2
Scope and Contents
This account details the life of Charles Karpman, starting from his childhood in a shtetl called Narovlya, Russia. He discusses Jewish life as well as daily life of a child in Russia.The family immigrated in 1916(?) when he was five through the east through Japan, then Seattle, then eventually to Hartford where his father and other family members had settled. This route was taken because passage west was blocked due to World War I.The milkman gave the Karpmans English...
Dates:
Unknown
Kaufman, E. Jerome, May 7, 1977
File — Folder 3
Scope and Contents
Topics included in this interview: Family history/death of his father/location of various relatives, growing up as a Jewish boy in Romania, immigration to Hartford to join brother Jack Kaufman, learning English and education in Hartford, working as a child, path towards career in pharmacies/drug stores including education and following in his brothers' (Jack and Irving) footsteps, membership at The Emanuel and religious life, active in Masonic Lodge Number 88 (Fifty-Fifty club-half Jewish,...
Dates:
May 7, 1977
Kaufman, E. Jerome, Oral History, May 7, 1977
Item — Box 9, Box: 161
Identifier: 161
Scope and Contents
Topics included in this interview: Family history/death of his father/location of various relatives, growing up as a Jewish boy in Romania, immigration to Hartford to join brother Jack Kaufman, learning English and education in Hartford, working as a child, path towards career in pharmacies/drug stores including education and following in his brothers' (Jack and Irving) footsteps, membership at The Emanuel and religious life, active in Masonic Lodge Number 88 (Fifty-Fifty club-half Jewish,...
Dates:
May 7, 1977
Kellin, Sam, Mike, and Sophie, 1952 - 1989
File — Folder 3
Scope and Contents
The programs, acting resume, and many of the newspaper articles document the achievements of Mike Kellin's acting career and his death.Advertisement for The Warner & Bailey Co, run by Samuel Kellin.Several atricles detail Sam Kellin's involvement in various Hartford institutions, particularly B'nai Brith.Several articles discuss the Sophie Kellin Yiddish Literary Society, which was founded in the late 1980s after her death.Sophie Keller was...
Dates:
1952 - 1989
Kemler, Leonard M.D., 1920 - 2001
File — Folder 3
1993 Interview
The topics covered in this interview are: Childhood/growing up Jewish in Hartford, being raised by grandparents after the death of his mother, founding of Emanuel and discussion of some of the spiritual leaders, served in Navy in WWII and was unofficial Jewish chaplain, medical residency/medical school, meeting his wife Joan, talks about his two children David and Louise, opening practice in Hartford as thoracic surgeon, work in various area hospitals, bias against Jewish doctors at Hartford...
Dates:
1920 - 2001