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(06.16.55) Paige Satchel signing autographs for youngsters after pitching three innings in Tharptown.
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(06.16.55) Paige Satchel signing autographs for youngsters after pitching three innings in Tharptown.

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  • (06.16.55) Paige Satchel signing autographs for youngsters after pitching three innings in Tharptown.
  • (06.16.55) Paige Satchel signing autographs for youngsters after pitching three innings in Tharptown.
  • (06.15.55) Leroy “Satchel” Paige signs autographs for youthful admirers after pitching three scoreless innings against Krebs Electric at the Tharptown baseball diamond in June 1955. At the age of 42, the right-handed pitcher became the first Black person to play in the American League, and was elected into the National Baseball Hall of fame in 1971.
  • (06.15.55) Leroy “Satchel” Paige signs autographs for youthful admirers after pitching three scoreless innings against Krebs Electric at the Tharptown baseball diamond in June 1955. At the age of 42, the right-handed pitcher became the first Black person to play in the American League, and was elected into the National Baseball Hall of fame in 1971.
  • (9.6.56) Rocky Marciano, right, with Francis Genglie, when the retired heavyweight champion visited the area. Rocky brought his Brockton Blockbusters baseball team to Kulpmont.
  • (9.6.56) Rocky Marciano, right, with Francis Genglie, when the retired heavyweight champion visited the area. Rocky brought his Brockton Blockbusters baseball team to Kulpmont.
  • (9.6.56) Rocky Marciano when the retired heavyweight champion visited the area. Rocky brought his Brockton Blockbusters baseball team to Kulpmont.
  • (June 1963) This huge rotary drill, right, has found temperatures in some holes southeast of Centralia to be over 2,000 degrees. A mine fire is raging beneath the ground in the area and the drill is digging holes to locate and analyze it. The shovel at left will soon dig a trench to terminate the fire before it spreads to branching veins.
  • (Feb.1962) Bucknell University students and some curious residents – and some 80 members of law enforcement – who booed the would-be American Nazi Fuhrer George Rockwell as he sought to hold a speech in Lewisburg on Feb. 4, 1962. Rockwell and eight cohorts, so-called “storm troopers,” drove to the Civil War Memorial to give remarks.
  • (Feb.1962) Bucknell University students and some curious residents – and some 80 members of law enforcement – who booed the would-be American Nazi Fuhrer George Rockwell as he sought to hold a speech in Lewisburg on Feb. 4, 1962. Rockwell and eight cohorts, so-called “storm troopers,” drove to the Civil War Memorial to give remarks.
  • (1962) The Mile.
  • (1962) The Mile.
  • (June 1962) Whaleback, known as the "Grand Canyon of Bear Valley" in 1962.
  • (June 1962) Whaleback, known as the "Grand Canyon of Bear Valley" in 1962.
  • (June 1962) Whaleback, known as the "Grand Canyon of Bear Valley" in 1962.
  • (June 1962) Whaleback, known as the "Grand Canyon of Bear Valley" in 1962.
  • (June 1962) Whaleback, known as the "Grand Canyon of Bear Valley" in 1962.
  • (June 1962) Whaleback, known as the "Grand Canyon of Bear Valley" in 1962.
  • (June 1962) Whaleback, known as the "Grand Canyon of Bear Valley" in 1962.
  • (June 1962) Whaleback, known as the "Grand Canyon of Bear Valley" in 1962.
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