Texas History

A well-traveled catcher from the Lone Star State smacked a three-run double to put the Detroit Tigers ahead of the Chicago Cubs in Game 7 of the World Series on Oct. 10, 1945. Paul Rapier Richards was born in 1908 at Waxahachie, a baseball hotbed in those days where several big-league clubs came to the area for spring training. The town with the name that has twisted so many Yankee tongues was hom…