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| Ralph Mines
(ca.1909-1950's), Located west of Rt.166 and south of PA Rt. SR 4002, 2 miles from Republic, Ralph, Redstone Twp., Fayette Co., PA Owners: (ca.1909-1950's) H.C. Frick Coke Company, Scottdale, PA |
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| The H.C. Frick Coke Company Ralph Mines
Baseball Team of 1925. The team played in the Frick Company Baseball
League. The photo was probably taken at the H.C. Frick Coke Company Annual
Picnic at Idlewild Park. Special trains were used to transport the miners
and their families to Idlewild Park from the Coal Patches in Westmoreland
and Fayette Counties. (Photo courtesy of the USX Resource Management Division, Uniontown, PA, & John K. Gates', "The Beehive Coke Years.") |
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| The H.C. Frick Coke Company Ralph Mines
Baseball Team of 1926. Photo was taken during the H.C. Frick Coke
Company Annual Picnic at Idlewild Park. The teams played in the
highly competitive Frick Company Baseball League. Mine superintendents
would go to extreme lengths to field a winning baseball team. If you
were a good baseball player, you could just about write your own ticket as
far as work was concerned in the mines. About the only requirement
was to show up around the mine occasionally. (Photo courtesy of the "Coal & Coke Heritage Center, Penn State University Fayette Campus, Uniontown, PA.") |
| "History of Ralph
Mines & Coke Works, Ralph, Redstone Twp., Fayette County, Pennsylvania" |
| "Coal Miners
Memorial, Ralph Mines & Coke Works, Ralph, Redstone Twp., Fayette County, Pennsylvania" |
| Support the Coal & Coke Heritage
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