The Pelicans were still in town for the next 2 days and Nick was chomping at the bit getting ready to feast on some more Crescent City pitching. By the time Independence Day weekend rolled around Cullop was leading the Southern Association with 21 homers and was one of the most popular players on the Crackers.Ĭullup went into the holiday weekend riding a hot streak – on the Thursday before the 4th he smashed 2 round-trippers off New Orleans’ Harry Kelley and the next day belted another off John Martina. The Yankee-in-waiting made the best out of his Atlanta assignment and continued demonstrating his hitting prowess. By now the 25 year-old slugger was married with son and his family moved with him to Atlanta for the 1925 season where he rented a third floor apartment in town. With the Yankee outfield stocked with fellas such as Babe Ruth, Earle Combes and Bob Meusel, Nick was optioned to the minor leagues for another year of seasoning.Ĭullop was sent to the Atlanta Crackers of the Southern Association where he became the teams’ starting center fielder. The New York Yankees got wind of Omaha’s window-breaking outfielder and bought his contract from the Buffaloes. Through everyday use his hitting improved in spades to the point of him smashing 40 homers in 1924. Despite his billing as a pitcher, Cullop was traded to the Omaha Buffaloes and converted into an outfielder. The following season he played for the Des Moines Boosters and had a bit more success with his 13-16 record for a poor team, but his average improved to. The next spring Cullop was sent down a rung to the Western League where despite early praise in the newspapers including The Sporting News, he went 6-11 and batted a disappointing. A bit out-classed in the American Association he managed only a 1-2 record by the time the season ended. 341 average got him a quick promotion to the Minneapolis Millers.
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He broke into pro ball with the 1920 Madison Greys of the class D South Dakota League where his 18-12 pitching record and. Despite his early promise, Cullop’s life took several tragic turns on the way to the majors. His record of 420 home runs is still the third best in the minors and for a while he held the RBI record as well with 1,857. That’s what happened when I was going through a 1925 Dallas sports page and stumbled on an Associated Press article that caused me to abandon what I was originally searching for and set my artistic sights on an obscure outfielder whose major league career totaled just 173 games spread over 5 mediocre seasons with 5 different teams.ĭespite forging a mediocre career in the majors, Nick Cullop was one of the “Babe Ruth of the Minor Leagues” back in the 1920’s and 30’s. The final blend is fine-tuned prior to bottling where different barrels of each varietal can come together to create the final wine which embodies a perfect balance of characteristics.Anyone who’s done their share of baseball research by culling through old newspapers knows how easy it is to get sidetracked by an interesting article totally unrelated to the thing you’re looking for. The wine is aged for 18 months in 100% French Oak of which 30% is New Oak. The punch downs help to extract the tannins and color out of the skins and seeds to maximize complexity and structure in the wine, while being gentle enough to prevent over extraction. The must is inoculated and punched down for 4 times a day during peak fermentation. The grapes are hand-picked and hand-sorted and then cold soaked in open top tanks for 48 to 72 hours to maximize tannin and color extraction.
The Bold Wine comes from premier regions of the Central Coast AVA of California. The extended hang time is shaping up to provide extremely high quality and likely one of the best vintages in the past decade.
This even and mild temperature swings gave us an ideal growing season which pushed well into November. Only four days of 100+ degree temperatures in 2019 was well below that of 20 that saw 16 and 11 days respectively over 100 degrees. The summer of 2019 was well below seasonal average for temperatures and heat spike events. The late bloom period allowed the weather to warm up and decrease any concerns of a devastating frost event, a welcomed outcome for winemakers statewide. Seasonably above average rainfall in the spring gave rise to a later than average bud break and bloom. As the winters have become increasingly wet over the past three years, the soil profile has continued to allow the vines time to mature at a health rate and allow for a prolonged growing season. 2019, like the previous two vintages, continued to be one of the latest starts to harvest in recent memory.
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