Author Toby Brooks’ book recounts history of West Frankfort Cardinals
While working with the Southern Illinois Miners during their inaugural season in 2007, Toby Brooks had the opportunity to speak to the team. During his talk, Brooks made one incorrect comment that has ended up sending him on a five-year journey full of work, research, interviews and learning.
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New book tells of area’s original professional baseball team, history
While working with the Southern Illinois Miners during their inaugural season in 2007, Toby Brooks had the opportunity to speak to the team. During his talk, Brooks made one incorrect comment that has ended up sending him on a five-year journey full of work, research, interviews and learning.
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Miners to honor W.F. Cardinals August 30
Thanks to Toby J. Brooks, a Southern Illinois University-Carbondale kinesiologist, and the efforts of the region's most recent professional baseball team, locals may soon become more acquainted with West Frankfort's rich baseball tradition.
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SIC Alum’s Heart and Literary Mind Remain in Southern Illinois
The rhyme and rhythm of small town-life often inspires conflicting emotions in young people – those who are fine with it, and those who want desperately to make a break. Golconda native and Southeastern Illinois College alumnus Toby Brooks was definitely one of the latter, but even now, in his current job as Assistant Professor of Athletic Training at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, his thoughts still turn back to southern Illinois, with the news that his book, Season of Change, has been accepted for publication.
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Book explores baseball, coal and West Frankfort
Lots of folks think professional baseball got its start in Southern Illinois when the Miners started playing in Marion last year. That’s not the case, however.
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West Frankfort (IL) Cardinals Book
Toby Brooks, an assistant professor at the University of Illinois Carbondale, is writing a book on the history of the West Frankfort (IL) Cardinals of the Illinois State League (renamed the Mississippi-Ohio Valley League and later the Midwest League).
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SIUC professor brings area baseball history to life
Southern Illinois does have a dazzling baseball history, and Southern Illinois University Carbondale assistant professor Toby Brooks is writing about it.
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