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Uncovered
Bloomington’s most famous Negro American Baseball League player finally receives recognition
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George Shively is known as a seven-time All-Star in the Negro American Baseball League. He was buried in an unmarked grave until Bloomington sports writer Bob Hammel worked to raise money for Shively and his family to have headstones. By Annie Garau agarau@umail.iu.edu | @agarau6
George Shively wasn’t just a Negro American Baseball League player. He was a great one. Playing for the West Baden Sprudels and the Indianapolis ABCs from 1911 to 1924, he was a two-time MVP and a seven-time All-Star. He may have been the best player ever to come out of Bloomington. Until recently, nobody seemed to care. His death in 1962 went without mention in the sports pages, his legacy forgotten even in his hometown. He was buried in an unmarked grave. Last year, however, Shively’s story resurfaced. More than five decades after Shively’s death, Bloomington sports writer Bob Hammel remembered a small note he had written about Shively in an interview with NABL player Cornelius Cook. “So I Googled, and man, it was
like striking gold,” Hammel said. As an avid storyteller and sports lover, Hammel continued digging for information. The more he learned about the mysterious Shively, the better the story seemed to get. Shively was born in Lebanon, Kentucky, in 1893. The grandson of a slave, he and his father Joseph moved to Bloomington when Shively was 7 years old, according to the 1900 Bloomington census. As a child, Shively attended the Bloomington Colored School through the fifth grade. The Shively home was on the west side of the city, not far from downtown, according to Thomas Clark’s four-volume history of Indiana University. One night, when Shively was 10 years old, a group known as whitecappers approached the house. The violent gang terrorized Southern Indiana towns from the end of the Civil War, taking it upon themselves to enforce morality with lynching. Around 1 a.m. the men
approached Shively’s house, dragging his father and two women from their beds and into Dunn Meadow. As one of Shively’s sisters ran to notify the police, the three victims were badly whipped with barbed wire, according to Clark’s book. When police approached the scene of the crime, they were confronted by four armed men who suggested they not go any further. With little effort, the police obliged and walked away. Gov. Winfield Durbin, Indiana’s leader at the time, was furious when he learned of the incident. He wrote a letter to the Bloomington sheriff suggesting that if he couldn’t enforce the laws any better, Bloomington might not be a suitable home for IU any longer. The police eventually arrested the criminals. Eight years later, at age 18, Shively left Bloomington to begin his baseball career with the Sprudels. He retired from the game 13
“I think that every life has value and deserves to be remembered in some way. To have a grave marked is an important ackowledgement of respect.” Casey Winningham, local quarry and stone carver
years later, never having the chance to play in the major leagues. After learning the extent of Shively’s accomplishments, Hammel decided it was time the rest of Bloomington did too. Shively was buried alongside his wife in Rose Hill Cemetery with eight other family members surrounding them. Not one of them could afford a headstone. Hammel, along with IU employee Sally Gaskill, began raising funds to erect a grave marker at Shively’s final resting place. SEE SHIVELY, PAGE 6
IU looks to replace production on the defensive front By Brody Miller brodmill@indiana.edu | @BrodyMillerIDS
Seventeen and a half sacks. More than 30 tackles for loss. That’s the amount of production IU football has to replace on the defensive front next season. Graduating players like defensive end Nick Mangieri and bandit Zack Shaw were givens. Toss in junior Darius Latham’s early declaration for the NFL Draft, and this becomes
a very different looking front for next season. IU Coach Kevin Wilson doesn’t seem to view this loss as a return to a blank slate, though. His example was last season when sophomore receiver J-Shun Harris went out with an injury before the season. The receiving corps was left with no major contributors returning, and some began to wonder who would catch the ball for the Hoosiers in 2015.
The concerns were short lived as IU trotted out the No. 1 passing offense in the Big Ten with receivers posting as much as 1,000, 900 and nearly 700 yards this season. On the defensive line, Wilson said IU is bringing in the types of bodies it wants and now his players just need to step in and develop themselves. “We’ve recruited well enough that we’re just going to expect Robert McCray to keep maturing and Jacob Robinson to keep maturing,” he said.
Robinson, a freshman, and McCray, a sophomore, are players who may not have loaded up the stat sheet in 2015, but rotated in quite often. McCray finished with 5.5 tackles for loss, and both could be seen pressuring the passer. McCray was often the first person Wilson named Wednesday when asked about the defensive line. Recruiting websites give the impression he was a lightly recruited prospect out of Georgia. At one point he was
even considered to be a linebacker. Now, McCray is playing with the interior defensive linemen and earning the praise of his coach. Another name Wilson was quick to bring up was freshman Ja’Merez Bowen’s, an offensive lineman who transferred from Cincinnati. Wilson said he is now playing on the defensive line. Wilson listed other players like SEE FOOTBALL, PAGE 6
Mandarin broadcasts Cellist Shannon Hayden explores of men’s basketball perception with experimentation now being offered By Jack Evans
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By Sophia Muston skmuston@indiana.edu | @sophiamuston
Fan Zhang said he has been a fan of basketball since he started watching NBA games during primary school in Shanghai, China, but he never expected to be a commentator for an American basketball game. In early October, IU President Michael McRobbie approached Athletics Director Fred Glass with the idea to broadcast IU men’s basketball games in Mandarin. Previously, professional and student broadcasts were done only in English. Now, students like Zhang have made it possible for the athletic department to also broadcast Mandarin commentary of all home men’s basketball games on iuhoosiers.com. Zhang’s favorite team is the Miami Heat. “We would watch people on the television talking about basketball,” Zhang said. “We also played (NBA) 2K, so we’d hear the radio on 2K games. The first time I did Mandarin radio, it felt like dreams come true because
I’m not a professional. I had never even done radio before.” Jeremy Gray, associate athletic director for strategic communications and fan experience, said the Mandarin broadcasts cater to a growing fan base. “China is a huge market,” Gray said. “It’s an enormous growing alumni base for us. There’s 3,000 students who either speak Mandarin or are from Mandarin-speaking countries. We have 5,000 alumni living in China or Mandarin-speaking countries, including Americans who are working over there.” The viewership is so large that the first few broadcasts of men’s basketball games in Mandarin surpassed English streams of other sports, Gray said. The athletic department reached out to potential broadcasters through the Office of International Services and received more interest than they expected. “I was worried if we’d even have two people willing to do this,” Gray said. SEE MANDARIN, PAGE 6
Illinois-based musician Shannon Hayden will release her third album, “You See the World,” in February. The cellist and vocalist said the statement of the title suggests an entry point into an examination of perception versus reality. Hayden is set to play an early record release show for “You See the World” in Bloomington; she said she often comes to Bloomington to play shows or do studio work. “Many of the songs on the record have to do with how we perceive the world and how we perceive ourselves and fit into that picture, and what we think people think of us — looking at the world from different lenses,” Hayden said. She said the theme stems from personal musical experiences. Though her solo-based work involves her running a cello through effects, pedals and channeling experimental, pop and noise music, she said audiences sometimes have preconceived notions of what she’ll sound like. “I deal with people’s perception of my music all the time, just based off press photos,” she said.
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Experimental cellist Shannon Hayden is playing a record release show in Bloomington this week.
“When I perform live, you can see these barriers breaking down.” Hayden said “You See the World” comes closer to a pop edge than her past music, but it doesn’t fit that genre. She said music on “YSTW” is influenced by Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood, as well as avant-pop musician Mica Levi, who fronts Micachu and the Shapes band, and scored Jonathan Glazer’s 2013 film “Under the Skin.“
SHANNON HAYDEN Tickets $5, all ages 8 p.m. Friday, the Blockhouse Hayden, 25, has been playing cello since she was 6 years old, and said forward-thinking pop music, not classical, was what drew her to the instrument in the first place. “I started playing what people SEE CELLIST, PAGE 6