photograph courtesy of Dickinson
College Archives This photograph features the 1933 Dickinson College men's baseball
team and was taken at Biddle Field in the spring of 1933. This team
had a 1-4 record. It is important to note the team had eleven regularly
scheduled baseball games. However, due to a three week stretch of
inclement weather, the team was forced to cancel six of these meetings.
The head coach of the team was Joseph McCormick. Wes Pedlow, in the
upper right hand corner, was a student manager as was W.M. Johnson, the
gentleman in the upper left hand corner. Hugo Vivadelli is sitting
on the bottom row sixth from the right. Peter Sivess, a member of
the Dickinson College Sports Hall of Fame, is the man sitting on the bottom
row and is third from the right. Sivess was drafted by the Boston
Red Sox after he graduated from college. Unfortunately, Sivess was
also drafted into World War II and was unable to play professional baseball.
The captain of the team was Benny Bass and his co-captain was Corney Hughes.
The 1933 schedule for the
baseball team was as follows:
DICKINSON RED DEVILS
OPPONENT
RESULT
DICKINSON
Lehigh
Dickinson 4 - Lehigh 1
W
DICKINSON
Penn State
Dickinson 3 - Penn State 5 L
DICKINSON
Temple
Dickinson 4 - Temple 11 L
DICKINSON
Gettysburg
Dickinson 3 - Gettysburg 5 L
DICKINSON
Gettysburg
Dickinson 5 - Gettysburg 8
L
The roster for the 1933 baseball
team includes the following: (There are more players in the picture than listed in the roster.
Unfortunately, a reason explaining this has not been identified)
Benny Bass
A. James Reeves
John B. Daugherty
Robert "Josh" Bartlety
James Knight
Lloyd B. "Corney" Hughes
John W. Bieri
Victor J. Tamanosky
Peter Sivess
Clark
MacLeary
Hugo Vivadelli
E. Hubert Jessop
Bookbinder
A typical starting lineup
for the 1933 baseball team:
Benny Bass
Second Base
A. James Reeves
Left Field
John B. Daugherty
Right Field
Robert "Josh" Bartley
Shortstop
Lloyd B. "Corney" Hughes
First Base
Hugo Vivadelli
Catcher
John W. Bieri
Center Field
E. Hubert Jessop
Third Base
Victor J. Tamanosky
Pitcher
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