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Jack Lohrke was one of the baseball players on the 1946 Spokane Indians baseball team. He 
was the player who was pulled off the bus at Ellensberg, Washington - right before the mountain pass and right before the bus plummeted down the mountainside, killing nine of the players on board. The highway patrol found him at dinnertime in Ellensberg to tell him that the San Diego Padres had called him up, that the Indians’ front office had asked the highway patrol to let him know, and that he should get his gear off the bus and hitchhike back to Spokane so he could fly to San Diego for his next baseball-playing opportunity/Beth Bollinger, Accidental Rabbit Trails. More here.
Question: When did you last attend a Spokane Indian ballgame?
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BethB on May 05 at 3:47 p.m.
Thanks, DFO, for posting the entry. I’ve been feeling emotional all day long, after writing that this a.m. about Jack Lohrke…
spokelooneh on May 05 at 9:11 p.m.
Attended a Spokane Indians game a couple of years ago.
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Beth wrote a great book on that fateful team of ‘46…
BethB on May 06 at 5:36 a.m.
thanks, SL. They were great men.