{"id":48321,"date":"2019-02-27T11:29:39","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T16:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=48321"},"modified":"2019-02-27T11:29:59","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T16:29:59","slug":"my-dads-basketball-days-found-in-old-sports-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/my-dads-basketball-days-found-in-old-sports-articles.html","title":{"rendered":"My Dad\u2019s Basketball Days Found in Old Sports Articles"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been uploading our old family photos and added this one of my Dad playing on the Burdick school basketball team in 1938.<\/p>\n

\"Photo:<\/a>
Front row: Romano, Perniciaro, Attilo \u201cTips\u201d Vento (captain), Potts, Slivinsky. Middle row: Irving, Fisher, Willard Kemp, Charles Henry, George Beadle. Back row: Dyer (manager), McClelland (coach), O’Neill (principal), Eldon (Asst. Manager). Source: Thomas Jay Kemp.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I wondered if I could find any news accounts of their games in GenealogyBank\u2019s Historical Newspaper Archives<\/a>. I quickly found two articles.<\/p>\n

\"An<\/a>
Daily Advocate (Stamford, Connecticut), 12 January 1938, page 13<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And this one.<\/p>\n

\"An<\/a>
Daily Advocate (Stamford, Connecticut), 15 February 1938, page 11<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Notice that most of the players in the photo are named in these two articles.<\/p>\n

Newspaper editors have included the news of our ancestors\u2019 daily lives for the past 300 years. Come search GenealogyBank\u2019s Historical Newspaper Archives<\/a> today to find your ancestors\u2019 stories!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An article by Thomas Jay Kemp about finding old newspaper articles about his dad Willard Kemp playing basketball in 1938.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12713],"tags":[12,2719,2020],"class_list":["post-48321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-genealogy","tag-genealogy-search-tips","tag-newspaper-archives"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/photo-0227-2019-featured-graphic-willard-kemp.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}