Meet Cecil L. Spittler, Photos and captions 12.15.22 final

(above) The 1936 Newark Bears, Cecil Spittler’s team for his last year as an ace pitcher. While in spring training of the 1937 season, he tore a muscle in his pitching arm that would never allow him to regain his dominant “fireball” that had him ear marked for a slot on the NY Yankees during the golden years of baseball.