Rube Waddell ~ Famous Butler Pitcher

Rube Waddell: Butler’s Outrageous Southpaw
By Eric D. Duchess

A biographical sketch of the eccentric left-handed pitcher from Prospect who is the only Butler County baseball player in the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

This book received the Freedom Foundation Award in 1997.

Athletic Butler ~

In 1979 nearly 1,000 runners competed in the annual 10,000 meter Road Race.
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Williard Hotel ~

For a long time our esteemed hotel on South Main Street.