Durden Pillow Moss (left), her cousin Jenny Payne Gardner (center) and sister Julie Pillow Crosthwaith, reminisce as they look over some of the hundreds of newspaper clippings and other memorabilia depicting their grandfather Hugh "Hughie" Melville Critz at Gardner's Greenwood home, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024. Critz played Major League baseball for the New York Giants in the 1930s and Cincinnati Reds in the 1920s. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today
The Baseball Encyclopedia tells us Hugh Melville “Hughie” Critz was born in Starkville in 1900 and died in Greenwood in 1980 at the age of 79.
