This Roadside Park is dedicated to the great baseball player,
Zack Wheat. Born in Hamilton, Missouri, in 1888, Zachariah Davis
Wheat was once described as "165 pounds of scrap iron, rawhide, and
guts." For eighteen years, Zack Wheat was a fixture in left field
at the famous Ebbets Field in Brooklyn. In his first year with the
Dodgers in 1909, this hard-hitting outfielder batted .304. This
would be the first of 14 seasons with a batting average over .300.
He won the NL batting title with a batting average of .335 in 1918.
Mr. Wheat compiled all these awards during the now infamous
"dead-ball" era. He also holds the Dodgers all-time club record for
most games (2,322), most at-bats (8,859) and most hits (2,884).
This long-time Dodger is now a Hall of Famer, invited to the land
of the legendary in 1959.
After retiring from baseball, Mr. Wheat made Sunrise Beach his
home. He opened the Zack Wheat Camp after World War 2. The fishing
cabins were originally logging crew cabins used by loggers as they
cleared the Osage River bottomlands before the Lake of the Ozarks
filled. Zack Wheat is often referred to as a local hero. The
American Legion Post is named after him and there’s a local Zack
Wheat Little League team as well as a Zack Wheat Road.
I placed this cache as a 4-H project. As a member of the Camden
County Lucky 4s 4-H Club for the past 5 years, I’ve created
numerous woodworking projects, have raised whitetail deer and have
had several projects go to the state fair. When you write a log in
the logbook and on this webpage, please mention where you’re from
and any connection to 4-H you might have.
The cache container is a gallon size, screw top, dark plastic
jar with a 3 ¾ inch diameter opening.
I hope you enjoy the beautiful Lake of the Ozarks and seeking my
Zack Wheat Cache.
EverQuesting
View 27 photos from the first cache camera on my log posted
September 26, 2004.