Bass and the Cleveland Indians]]' [[Al Milnar]] battled through six scoreless innings, before Washington's [[Charlie Gelbert]] hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the seventh, giving the Nats a 2–0 lead. But Bass fell apart in the eighth, giving up singles to Roy Weatherly]], Ben Chapman (baseball)|Ben Chapmanand Odell Hall. After hitting Bruce Campbell-with a pitch to load the bases, [[Ken Keltner]] doubled to give Cleveland a lead they would never relinquish; Cleveland would win, 6–3, ruining Bass' major league debut. Most of Bass' start (from the fourth inning onwards) can still be heard today, as part of the WJSV broadcast day tapes, making it one of the oldest baseball play-by-play broadcasts still extant.
It would be Bass' only game in the majors. Already 33 years old, he would return to Chattanooga, then enlist in World War II. (Instead of heading overseas, however, Bass remained in Ohio, employed as a purchasing agent by an aluminum company in Dayton. He also managed the local amateur baseball team to four city championships and the World's Amateur Championship at Youngstown, Ohio in 1944.) After the war, he pitched for and managed Class D clubs in Gainesville, Florida and Kingsport, Tennessee, not far from his old hometown. In 1948, when Bass was fired by Kingsport, he took another managerial job, coaching not men but women: the Fort Wayne Daisies of the [All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
Bass and the Cleveland Indians]]' [[Al Milnar]] battled through six scoreless innings, before Washington's [[Charlie Gelbert]] hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the seventh, giving the Nats a 2–0 lead. But Bass fell apart in the eighth, giving up singles to Roy Weatherly]], Ben Chapman (baseball)|Ben Chapmanand Odell Hall. After hitting Bruce Campbell-with a pitch to load the bases, [[Ken Keltner]] doubled to give Cleveland a lead they would never relinquish; Cleveland would win, 6–3, ruining Bass' major league debut. Most of Bass' start (from the fourth inning onwards) can still be heard today, as part of the WJSV broadcast day tapes, making it one of the oldest baseball play-by-play broadcasts still extant.
It would be Bass' only game in the majors. Already 33 years old, he would return to Chattanooga, then enlist in World War II. (Instead of heading overseas, however, Bass remained in Ohio, employed as a purchasing agent by an aluminum company in Dayton. He also managed the local amateur baseball team to four city championships and the World's Amateur Championship at Youngstown, Ohio in 1944.) After the war, he pitched for and managed Class D clubs in Gainesville, Florida and Kingsport, Tennessee, not far from his old hometown. In 1948, when Bass was fired by Kingsport, he took another managerial job, coaching not men but women: the Fort Wayne Daisies of the [All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
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