TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 5/23/23 – ZACK WHEAT DAY!
He was born in Hamilton, Missouri on May 23, 1888, son of an English-descended father and a Cherokee mother, but made his name playing right field in Brooklyn’s Ebbets Field, and today we celebrate NATIONAL ZACK WHEAT DAY! He was a Brooklyn Dodger before they were the Dodgers. Zachariah Davis Wheat was playing minor league …