Woman celebrates 101st birthday at baseball game
MOUNT PLEASANT, S. C. -- A woman formerly of Stratton, Nebraska, celebrated her 101st birthday doing what she loves: watching baseball.
Zilah Powell, with her daughter, Yvonne Powell, attended a Charleston RiverDog baseball game July 27 in honor of her 101st birthday.
Zilah has celebrated her last three birthdays at a Riverdog game, said Yvonne. The Charleston Riverdogs are a N.Y. Yankees class "A" team and despite Zilah's cheers, lost the game to Greenville, South Carolina, in the 15th inning, after hitting a homerun to tie it in the ninth
Zilah resides at Somerby, a retirement home in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, near her daughter. She's a lifelong baseball fan because her father, Seymour "Hooks" Bailey, was a lefty pitcher in 1928 for the Montreal, Canada team.
Bailey passed away at the age of 89 in Lincoln, Nebraska, and was a member of the Nebraska Baseball Hall of Fame. He played on several local and Pennsylvannia teams, and signed with the St. Louis Cardinals, before falling and breaking his pitching arm in the 1920s. He retired from baseball and taught school and farmed in the Stratton area.