New Ulm Sports Central - Preserving and Sharing New Ulm Area Sports History

As we continue to add various items of sports history, we marvel at how well a baseball or softball scorebook records such detail for a game event as one of the most efficient methods to preserve the history of an event. While good scoring is not simple, everyone can develop a skill in keeping "the scorebook" for the benefit or replaying the game in such minute detail.

An example is the image created with this article which gives the full details of the New Ulm Legion Gold amazing comeback victory over Omaha Creighton in the 2015 Midwest Classic. Gold rallied and scored runs with two out to tie the game in the last inning, then won it in the eighth.

An oddity of this sports object is that Michael Skillings played a big role as you can note. He was one of our first working interns as we began preserving sports history. He followed his brother Ted and then got very busy in sports and other activities for Cathedral high school. In the meantime, others have worked to contribute the narrative copy of a sports history object and scan images relating to each individual one (as they were available).

We're hoping that by the end of 2016, we will have 5,000 objects indexed and listed on our search data base with 2500 images of photographs, starts, clippings, etc. to support those items.