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  Charley Chase - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Direction of the Chase series was soon taken over by Leo McCarey, who in collaboration with Chase formed the comic style of the series---an emphasis on situation comedy, characterization, and farce instead of knockabout slapstick.
Charley Chase moved with ease into sound films in 1929 and continued to be quite prolific, occasionally putting his fine singing voice on display and including his self-penned songs in his comedy shorts.
Chase's failure to adapt to the feature film format was primarily responsible for his dismissal from the Hal Roach Studio in 1936.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charley_Chase   (645 words)

  
 Hal Chase - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Harold Homer Chase (February 13, 1883 in Los Gatos, California - May 18, 1947 in Colusa, California), nicknamed "Prince Hal", was a first baseman in Major League Baseball, widely viewed as the best fielder at his position, who was banned from baseball for corruption.
Hal Chase with the Chicago White Sox at Comiskey Park.
In addition to the accusations of his managers, Chase was known to consort with gamblers and was believed to have bet against his own team on a number of occasions.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hal_Chase   (478 words)

  
 Prince Hal and his Arizona Odyssey
Chase, called Hal or Prince Hal in recognition of his talents as a first baseman in the big leagues, continues to be one of the most controversial and enigmatic figures ever to play the game.
Hal Chase arrived in Douglas in early April ready to assume the leadership of the team.
Chase was given the title of Captain and the Williams club swept to the trophy.
www.bevillsadvocate.org /histweb/PrinceHal.html   (3096 words)

  
 Hal Chase - BR Bullpen
Hal Chase was a long-time first baseman in the deadball era who was a good hitter, a top-notch fielder, and someone who probably had a psychopathic personality.
Chase played 15 years in the majors leagues, mostly for the New York Highlanders in the American League, but he won a batting title in the National League in 1916.
Chase played ball at Santa Clara University in San Jose, CA (in spite of having dropped out of high school in 10th grade) as an extremely quick left-handed second baseman, and also played semi-pro ball and other minor league ball in California.
www.baseball-reference.com /bullpen/Hal_Chase   (537 words)

  
 Hal Chase
Hal Chase is one of the most controversial and colorful characters in the game's history.
Indicted for bribery in the scandal, Chase ignored the allegations and stayed on the West Coast.
Meanwhile back in Chicago at the Black Sox trial, John McGraw testified that he had sent Chase and Zimmerman home during the 1919 season because he had strong evidence that the duo was fixing games and had tried to enlist teammates Fred Toney, Rube Benton, and Benny Kauff in their scam.
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 Caribbean Yankees
Seeing a Chase was a lefty (and would have had real problems on the pivot), the conventional wisdom was that Hal would make the conversion "about the same time that Detroit benches Ty Cobb for use as a pinch hitter." Still, Chance thought that the idea had promise.
Chase's luck for the Spring was foretold when his suitcase (containing his uniform and glove) was stolen when he was on his way to the ship for Bermuda.
Hal Chase played very little at second, and was sent packing at the beginning of June, a common occurrence in his career.
www.thediamondangle.com /marasco/carib/bermuda.html   (1355 words)

  
 Hal Chase : Prince Hal by Kyle Lobner on Baseball Almanac
Hal Chase : Prince Hal by Kyle Lobner on Baseball Almanac
His (Hal Chase) brilliance with the glove is easier to document than Ty Cobb's temper, Hack Wilson's drinking or Walter Johnson's fastball; it is all over the literature of the sport." - Author Bill James
Hal Chase : Prince Hal by Kyle Lobner
www.baseball-almanac.com /articles/halchase.shtml   (756 words)

  
 Vintage Cardboard- Hal Chase Place The Nomad Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Chase spent the remaining years of his life drifting through towns in Arizona and California, selling an automobile called the Marmon, tending bar, and drinking heavily.
Chase was well aware of the "fix" but the exact nature of his involvement is in dispute.
Chase was laid to rest in in his hometown of Los Gatos at Oak Hill Cemetery.
www.vintagecardboard.com /Chase_Nomad.asp   (3794 words)

  
 Vintage Cardboard- Hal Chase Place Scandals & Such Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Chase's explanation of his action was as follows: "At the time, Comiskey called me into his office and asked me to have the ten-day clause stricken from my contract.
Chase's reaction to his suspension was to sue the Reds for back pay missed and demand a formal hearing on the charges, conducted by National League president John Heydler.
The next morning Chase comes and sees me. He says, "It was a tough break we had, Jim; we tried awful hard." The "tough break" Chase referred to was the the Reds victory over the Boston Braves on July 25, 1918.
www.vintagecardboard.com /Chase_Scan.asp   (4619 words)

  
 TheDeadballEra.com :: BAD TO THE BONE: HAL CHASE
Chase did in fact play fairly well in the beginning of 1919 and was winning ball games for New York as late as June.
Chase was eventually barred for life from playing major league bestial but his name still surfaced again about a year later when he was implicated in the Black Sox scandal.
Chase continued to find work in the minor and semi-pro leagues and played into his fifties.
www.thedeadballera.com /BadBoneChase.html   (501 words)

  
 Hal Chase | BaseballLibrary.com
Chase was implicated in the Black Sox scandal when the World Series was thrown at the end of the season, and thereafter he was persona non grata.
Heydler decides Chase's sometimes indifferent play was due to "carelessness." Two weeks later John McGraw trades 1B Walter Holke and C Bill Rariden to the Reds for Chase, but the Giants will also have their problems with him.
In September, McGraw will send Chase and Heinie Zimmerman home without explanation; during the investigation of the Black Sox scandal in 1920, McGraw will testify that the dismissal was because both players had thrown games and tried to enlist Fred Toney and Benny Kauff in their scheme.
www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/C/Chase_Hal.stm   (2307 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Hal Chase: The Defiant Life and Turbulent Times of Baseball's Biggest Crook: Books: Martin Donell Kohout   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Chase can be found in this book and some readers may feel they are being told more than they care to know.
Chase is often given credit as being the greatest defensive first-baseman.
Hal bounced around a number of major league teams after wearing out his welcome with the one he was currently on.
www.amazon.ca /Hal-Chase-Turbulent-Baseballs-Biggest/dp/0786410671   (1084 words)

  
 The Unofficial Chase Biography
Chase and Knob would encounter the cult numerous times after that, including a case involving the disappearance of Air Wave, the cousin of Green Lantern Hal Jordan.
Chase has since been assigned to a number of cases, including one involving the Suicide Squad and the Rocket Reds [Chase #2-3]; and a babysitting job watching the Teen Titans.
Chase is proficient in the use of a handgun, and is a skilled investigator.
www.dcuguide.com /profile.php?name=cameronchase   (730 words)

  
 WNYC - Reading Room: The Black Prince of Baseball
Casey Chase was born a year after his grandfather's death, so he was grateful for any clues about the famous ancestor he had never met.
It was in Soquel that Hal began his schooling—in the center of town in a massive two-story building that was as stolid as the atmosphere around it was raucous.
As Hal would confide in later years, he was relieved just to get away from the Alviso lumberyards, where he had been called on to earn a few dollars for the family by chopping wood—an activity that he complained endangered his throwing arm.
www.wnyc.org /books/32424   (2898 words)

  
 Only A Game : Feature : The Black Prince of Baseball
Hal Chase, an extraordinarily gifted first baseman who played in the big leagues from 1905 until 1919 and in various decidedly not big leagues for a good deal longer, is said to have demanded fifty cents before he would take the field for a neighborhood game when he was twelve years old.
Some baseball historians have presented Chase as the most reprehensible of all baseball flguards, a fellow willing to fumble a ground ball for money whenever a gambler suggested same, a traitor to his teammates as well as to his own talent.
Beyond telling the story of Hal Chase, Dewey and Acocella have told the story of baseball's early years and the part the game played in entertaining a fair portion of the nation's populace when baseball really could be considered the national pastime, in part because there weren't as many competing candidates for that distinction.
www.onlyagame.org /features/2004/05/blackpr.asp   (462 words)

  
 The Official Home of Baseball Historian Dr. Harold Seymour and the SABR Seymour Medal Award   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Chase's career took him through the Federal League, and Kohout's explication of the ins and outs of that so-called outlaw league and its relationships with the major are very well done.
Although Chase's career is interesting and playing baseball is central to it, there is really no need to detail nearly every at bat in every game from the opening of spring training until the close of post-season play.
Second, although much is learned about Hal Chase's life and times, I came away feeling that while I knew a great deal more about Hal Chase, I had no greater understanding of the Teflon quality that allowed him to slip through the myriad charges against him.
www.haroldseymour.com /article.asp?articleid=43029   (1217 words)

  
 Boston.com / A&E / Books / Some hustlers, and a hard-working, unhappy winner
It has long been doctrine among students of baseball history that Hal Chase, who played first base brilliantly for five different teams from 1905 until 1919, was the embodiment (if not the origin) of mischievous intent and criminal fraud within the sacred pastime.
Each time Chase signed a new contract, he'd erase the salary line and write in a lower figure before showing her the document, thus reserving the balance for entertaining other women.
Chase was an imaginative gambler, and his talents were not limited to the ball field.
www.boston.com /ae/books/articles/2004/07/04/some_hustlers_and_a_hard_working_unhappy_winner?pg=full   (709 words)

  
 Hal Chase Baseball Stats by Baseball Almanac
Hal Chase was born on Tuesday, February 13, 1883, in Los Gatos, California.
Chase was 22 years old when he broke into the big leagues on April 14, 1905, with the New York Highlanders.
Hal Chase is remembered as a shining, leering pock-marked face, pasted on a pitchdark soul; there is some evidence to say that he appeared in the flesh, but I lean more toward the invention theory." - The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract (2003)
www.baseball-almanac.com /players/player.php?p=chaseha01   (315 words)

  
 Amazon.com: A Prince at 1st: The Fictional Autobiography of Baseballs Hal Chase: Books: Ed Dinger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Subtitled The Fictional Autobiography of Baseball's Hal Chase, Dinger's first novel follows the life and career of Prince Hal Chase, the first captain of the New York Yankees in the early years of the 20th century.
Chase recognizes the seamy side of the game, but rationalizes that since players are paid low wages it is all right to fix games, lie down on the job and take payoffs whenever possible.
Nicknamed Prince Hal, first baseman Hal Chase was the first captain of the New York Yankees in the early years of the twentieth century (when the team was known as the Highlanders).
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0786413301?v=glance   (921 words)

  
 Hal Chase Place Main Page
Hal Chase was both baseball hero and villain, a superstar and an outcast, regarded as the best fielder of his day.
Chase's name became linked to the biggest scandal ever recorded in the sport of baseball and he was banned from the sport for life.
Chase was the first major star of the New York Yankee franchise, but his name is forgotten today.
www.chaseplace.iwarp.com   (153 words)

  
 Amazon.fr : Hal Chase: The Defiant Life and Turbulent Times of Baseball's Biggest Crook: Livres en anglais: Martin ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Hal Chase is considered by many to be one of the best first basemen ever to play the game of baseball.
But Chase will never have his plaque in Cooperstown because he has gone down in history as the biggest crook in baseball.
Chase was repeatedly accused of throwing games, bribing players, betting against his own team, and various other crimes, yet with his relaxed nature he always managed to get off the hook for his misdeeds by working his charm.
www.amazon.fr /Hal-Chase-Turbulent-Baseballs-Biggest/dp/0786410671   (331 words)

  
 Elysian Fields Quarterly - The Baseball Review
Given that, why should we care to exhume the life and times of Hal Chase, whose mercurial career is remembered less for his often-brilliant fielding at first base than for the lingering stench of "laying down" that dogged his steps from league to league.
Given what Chase ultimately did with that talent, we might expect that humor would be hard to come by, but the authors—whose deft one-liners are sprinkled far too lightly throughout the text—have a subtle sense of the sardonic.
In fact, one of their main points is that Chase's marred reputation as soiled fixer has been exploited to cleanse the dirty deeds of many others in the game.
www.efqreview.com /NewFiles/v21n4/books.html   (1157 words)

  
 Heroes and Villains
Hal Chase, who was born in 1883 and grew up on his father's sawmill in the Santa Cruz Mountains above Soquel, played his first professional baseball with the Giants and other teams all over the Santa Cruz and Santa Clara Valley area.
Chase also acquired a reputation for consorting with gamblers, who were as much baseball as peanuts and cracker-jack during the early part of the century.
An alcoholic, Chase contracted beriberi and died in 1947 at the age of 64.
www.santacruzpl.org /history/rec/heroes.shtml   (1171 words)

  
 Legends of the Game   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
HAL CHASE Chase, Harold Homer "Prince Hal" b: 2/13/1883, Los Gatos, Cal. d: 5/18/47, Colusa, Cal. BR/TL, 6', 175 lbs.
Hal's desire to gamble on baseball games ruined his career that had Hall of Fame potential.
In 1919, Hal was thought to be a key figure in the 'Big Fix' of the infamous World Series 'Black Sox Scandal'.
www.deadball.com /chasehal.htm   (107 words)

  
 The First Third
We had been drinking and since we were both young and full of the juice of life, we took to speaking of life.
Hal, at that time was quite an influence on me, mainly because he had done things that I had not.
Allen was with someone Hal didn't know and since there were several in our party anyway, there was no attempt made for the two parties to get together.
levity.com /digaland/celestial/cassady/first.third.html   (1069 words)

  
 1919 Black Sox
Chase was indicted on September 28,1920 on conspiacy charges relating to the fixing of the 1919 World Series.
Chase was contacted by Bill Burns and reassured Burns that the fix would work.
Hal Chase would be "unofficially" banned from baseball after the 1919 season.
www.1919blacksox.com /participants.htm   (1293 words)

  
 THE WORLD OF CHARLEY CHASE
Charley Chase was an incredibly prolific star comedian of the 1920s and 1930s, producing hundreds of short comedies in both the silent and the sound eras.
It is unclear whether the Chase comedies were included in the agreement and if they are scheduled to be shown on the network in the coming months.
The only way to convince Hallmark to release the Chase comedies on DVD is if they see that there is a demand for them...so what I suggest is that everyone (and that means EVERYONE) who is at all interested in getting Chase on DVD contact Hallmark through their contact form off of their website.
www.geocities.com /ysolan82/chase.html   (1912 words)

  
 Chapter I Outlaw Baseball Players in the Copper League: 1925-1927
Chase was to make one more try at in comeback in the league but would be unsuccessful and his career with the Copper League was completed.
Chase finally arrived in time for the series with Fort Bayard the first weekend of August.
Chase was fairly effective at the bat, going two hits for four at-bats in the first game.
www.bevillsadvocate.org /histweb/CHAPTER5.html   (2611 words)

  
 chase.html   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Chase was part of a group of administrators that organized the New York Intercollegiate Athletic Conference that is now the State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) and was honored by the SUNYAC in 1985 with the Distinguished Service Award.
Chase graduated from Cortland State and then went to the University of Southern California and
When the war was over, Chase returned to Oneonta to begin work on developing an athletic program that peaked during the 1970's.
www.oneonta.edu /academics/athletics/HALLOFFAME/1999/CHASE.HTML   (211 words)

  
 Blackwell Online - Hal Chase
Hal Chase - one of the best first basemen ever to play the game.
Chase was the biggest crook in baseball history.
His major league career lasted from 1905 to 1919 but by the mid-1930s, Chase was a destitute alcoholic.
bookshop.blackwell.co.uk /bobuk/scripts/home.jsp?action=search&type=isbn&term=0786410671&source=3246541172   (335 words)

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