Interview with Baseball Pitcher Ed Wells audio clip

Interview with Baseball Pitcher Ed Wells

Aug 6, 1977
2 hours

Historian Eugene C. Murdock interviewed several former baseball players that had been active in baseball in the 1920s and 1930s. Murdock was chairman of the history department at Marietta College. The interviews were not professionally recorded, and the audio quality is variable.

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