North Muskegon Norsemen: 1. History: Preface

Friday, August 24
Preface

Preface to History of NM Baseball 

 

The history section of the North Muskegon Baseball website was created by current head baseball coach Warren Kent III with much of the historical research done by local sportscaster and sports historian Jim Moyes. What began as a seemingly simple little task of “let’s post all of the school’s baseball scores” has turned into a monster researching project that has taken many hours to research and transcribe.

 

It is our fervent desire that other schools will see our site and become excited about doing the same for their schools in a number of different sports. With this era’s modern technology, Internet use, and the multitude of libraries that have local newspapers on microfilm, this project and others could become a reality.

 

With that said, there are still gobs of information missing that we would love to post on our website. It is virtually impossible, with the information that has been made available to us, to come up with career statistics for those who played before 1993. We have in our possession all the scorebooks for games played from 1993 through the current season. Prior to about 1970 it was rare to see even a mention of one’s batting average posted in the Muskegon Chronicle. Unfortunately, there was nothing like The Sporting News available where we could post each game’s box score into our data base.

 

How we would love to know what former legends, such as Bill Duplissis, batted in the early years of North Muskegon baseball. What we have been able to track down are tidbits of information as reported in local newspaper accounts from each game. These we have passed along to our readers as listed under “Interesting Facts.”

 

The neat thing about a website is that corrections and additions can be easily and quickly made. If you have any documented information that you would like to add, please contact either Jim Moyes at jimmoyes@aol.com or Warren Kent III at kentw@monashores.net. -- Jim Moyes, NM Baseball Historian