Here was Carl Warwick’s view from home to the 430 feet away 20-foot high wall in center field at Kokernot Field in Alpine, Texas back on June 8, 1957.
Found it!
Two days after the “Carl Warwick Hits Longest HR Ever at Kokernot” column, The Pecan Park Eagle found one brief report in the June 9, 1957 edition of the Odessa American that described how the record Warwick home run left the yard within the context of a game played on Saturday, June 8, 1957 between the Fort Bliss Falcons of El Paso and the home club Alpine Cowboys at Kokernot Field in Alpine, Texas:
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Fort Bliss Tips Alpine, 10-7
Alpine – (Special) – The Fort Bliss Falcons from El Paso made the home opener for the Alpine Cowboys a dismal one Saturday by defeating the host nine, 10-7.
Fort Bliss overcame a 6-2 deficit with a five-run rally in the sixth and then closed out with a three-run ninth inning.
Jack Shultea was the winner and Jerry Wolff took the loss.
The same clubs play here Sunday at 3 p.m.
Carl Warwick, (the) TCU star playing outfield for Alpine (this summer), hit the longest homer ever blasted out of Kokernot Field. His blow cleared the 20-foot high center field fence, 430 feet from home plate.
Tom Chandler hit two homers for Alpine and Toby Newton also delivered one for the Cowboys.
…. (Special) – Odessa American, Sunday, June 9, 1957, Page 26.
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Watch the streets in Houston this Tuesday, folks. That ice – ain’t so nice.
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01/29/2014: Addendum. – Yes! The Fort Bliss pitcher in that Carl Warwick record home run game was Jack Schultea (spelled with a “c”) of Reagan HS and UH. This morning, the Eagle was able to find a corroborating story from 1958 that shows Houston’s Jack Schultea as a star pitcher for Fort Bliss that following season and another from 1952 that showed him winning the state championship for Reagan HS with a 15-0 record and a finals win over Doyle Stout and Crozier Tech.
Both Schultea and Stout made the 1952 state high school all star team – and Stout also is now the author of the book we mentioned in the first column on this subject, “The Amazing Tale of Mr. Herbert and His Fabulous Alpine Cowboys Baseball Club.”
Small world. Also a reminder of how some early encounters in life sometimes bond two people together by history forever. (See Bobby Thomson/Ralph Branca as a prime example.)
Here’s the copy on the 1958 reference to Jack Schultea:
(1958): “Jack Schultea, pitching ace of the Fort Bliss All Stars, will get the starting call Friday when the Falcons play host to Santa Rita, N.M. at Carpenter Field. Game time is 7:30 p.m.
“Schultea, who has compiled a 3-0 mark and fanned 44 men in 27 innings, returns from leave Friday and is expected to bolster the team’s attack considerably. Aside from his pitching talents, Schultea is carrying a .600 batting average.
“Having compiled a 6-5 record so far this season, the All Stars only recently bounced back from a double loss to Alpine by edging White Sands Missle Range, 9-8.”
…. El Paso Herald Post, June 25, 1958, Page 32.
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The Pecan Park Eagle 
January 28, 2014 at 5:11 pm |
Jack Schultea of Reagan HS and UH.
January 28, 2014 at 6:58 pm |
Not sure. There was no “c” placed after the initial “S” in Shultea’s last name, but that could have been due to a misspelling in this article or by the scorekeeper. My hunch is that it’s the same Houston star (Schultea) that we know about, but there was a second problem with the lone “Shultea” entry. The news type on that name was awful on the surname. At first, it appeared to be “Shullca”, but a comparison of the faded 2nd “l” part of the “lc” sector of the name looked more like “te” to me when compared to the other type. Further study is warranted, but I’m betting that it was “Schultea” and Houston’s “Jack Schultea” to boot. i could be wrong, but it shouldn’t be too hard to verify. – Was Houston’s Jack Schultea ever in the service in El Paso – and did he play baseball for Fort Bliss?
January 29, 2014 at 3:11 pm
1/29/2014: It was Houston’s Jack Schultea. See the addendum just posted above to this column.