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Are you wondering what Baseball Blues is all about?
Tuesday, 20 March 2007

Baseball Blues serves two purposes. Or should I say it satisfies two of my passions.

 

 
  8mm  
  This is the only known image
of me and my Grandfather
taken from an
8mm home move, circa 1961
 
   

The first passion is my on going (never ending) baseball research project – I’m documenting the career of my Grandfather, Genial Gene Camozzi. Grandpa Gene was a semipro baseball star in Northern California from 1915 till around 1940. Born in 1897, he grew up playing baseball on the sandlots of San Francisco. I never really had an opportunity to know my Grandfather he died (Obit) when I was very young. Through our shared passion for baseball I feel I have a better understand of who he was, and why so many old timers told of how great a baseball pitcher he was. 

 

These were the early days west coast baseball. The Old Coast League (OldCoastLeague.com is another research project) was in its infancy. He never played in the Pacific Coast League, but he still managed to get his feet wet in the minor leagues (1918 Pacific Coast International League and the 1920 Three-I League). During his years as a ballplayer he teamed with many who had or would play in the Pacific Coast League. The local Semipro circuit was a hot bed of talent for the local coast league teams like the San Francisco Seals, Missions and Oakland Oaks.

 

My second passion is Web Design. As a creative director for a Silicon Valley Advertising Agency (DRB Partners ) I find it important to stay on top of current internet technologies. This baseball website, is a perfect forum for me to test what works and doesn’t work. Currently, I’m utilizing an Open Source Content Management System (Joomla). I hope to implement what I learn to better facilitate sharing my baseball research with others.

 

 

 
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Here I'm pictured wearing an Ebbets Field Flannel
replica of a 1918 Aberdeen Black Cats home  jersey,

My Grandfather, Gene Camozzi, pitched for Aberdeen

Prior to the the league folding because of WWI in 1918.