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Meet Harold Bridgeman

From the University of Cambridge comes a pitcher of such esteemed lineage that he forestalled the sporting career his athleticism would have afforded him years ago to instead follow in the family tradition of university.

Harold George Henry Orlando Bridgeman, of North Shropshire, received his course degree in Classics. With good reason, as his father, Lord George Bridgeman, Fourth Earl of Bradford, is in fact the Chairman of the Board of the Faculty of Classics at Cambridge. However, since he is not the eldest heir, Young Mister Bridgeman is not in line to succeed his father in his titles.

Upon recognition of his athletic and academic gifts, Mister Bridgeman forewent the customary military stint to pursue his Classics degree, as well his baseball studies at the Cambridge University Baseball Club, who easily won the inter-university Bradford Baseball Cup all three years of his tenure there.

Let it be known that Mister Bridgeman is not merely a novelty selection by the Chesterfield Town side, as though chosen for the curiousness of his birth to nobility. He is quite a finished product such that he alone may lift the Spireites to promotion to the top tier for 1906. Blessed with superior pitch speed, movement and control, he will likely contend for the Second Division’s Pitcher of the Year right away, at the tender young age of twenty three.

And lest anyone worry that Mister Bridgeman will set himself far above his mates of lesser breeding, he has already been in good spirits with the chaps, who have hung the playful moniker of “M’Lord” on him!