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Ambidextrous / switch pitchers


1911-4-08 Charlie Friene - also "fluffy-haired" Orville Kilroy
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Thursday, March 6, 2025

Barney Joy

1918 in retrospect Barney Joy/ George Bruns
1902-8-30 A. Same pic that was used for a long time. 
1902-11-08 A. Pic in football uniform - is Honolulu right tackle. \
1902-11-15 A. Pic of H.A.C. football team. 
 
1897-1-09 Star. Star newsboys beat Independent team 26-7 - "Bonnie Joy took the bun with a home run, scoring three men." 
    1900-9-01 A. Preview. Theo. Davies & Co.
1900-9-03 A. Bonnie Joy, caught for T.H. Davies Company. Charles Kaanoi in center for Davies.
1901-6-30 A. Bonny Joy pitched for Police - lost to All Stars (Stars) 10-5. 
    "Old Pal" Gorman caught for All-Stars. Stars have several years of experience - Police new team. 
    "For coachers and "hot air" artists the Stars cannot be excelled. "Old Pal" Gorman missed his occupation by not going upon the auctioneer's platform. He kept the crowd good natured by his ceaseless bantering of his own nine and the Police, but was unfortunate every time he came to the bat by striking a ball to the ground and getting mixed up with it, putting him "out."
1901-7-06 Republican. Bonnie Joy pitched for Police - lost 19-13 to H.A.C. Made several good hits but taken out in 7th. 
1901-8-01 A. 1500+ ATT. Joy loaned to Stars for occasion. Stars beat Teachers 13-4. "Joy pitched invincible ball at first, but was rather heavily battered toward the close of the game." 
    Teachers were players from Transport Thomas. Practically all their players are collegiate - colleges attended listed.
1901-8-01 Republican. 1000 ATT - at Punahou campus. Full names of Teacher players given, with year of graduation. Called All-College team. 
1901-8-10 Republican. Line. 700-800 ATT. Joy struck out 14 for Police v. Artillery - close to Honolulu record. Police won 18-7. 
1902-4-19 B. Custom House 11, H.A.C. 5. 500 ATT but not much rooting. "It had been expected, however, that the H.A.C. boys would have made a better showing and it is said that a goodly wad of their money wandered into the pockets of the collectors of the balls." 
    "Bonnie" Joy
1902-4-19 B. Joy with H.A.C. Play by play. 

1903-7-21 Gazette. "The statement is current that Barney Joy goes into a baseball game with his ears plugged with cotton batting, so that the irritating cries and expletives of the rooters may not rattle him." 

1901-4-06 A. Maile Ilima has secured battery of Barney Joy and Sonny Cunha. 

1901-8-01 B. Of Police team - will pitch for Stars.


1898-5-20 Star. Fined $25 in police court for beating up a native named Kane last night. 
1898-12-20 Independent. Young Barney Joy discovered and extinguished fire in Chinese home. 
1899-11-03 B. Bonnie Joy listed as one of possible football players for SLC, in addition to John Aylett, Patsy Gleason, etc.
1901-2-26 Star. "BONNIE IS A TERROR." Knocked out three soldiers. 
1901-2-26 Star. Cases called for 28th. 
1901-2-26 A. Barney Joy - says "his claims to the local assault and battery championship will be thoroughly investigated." 
1901-2-27 A. Gives names of his accusers.
1901-3-01 A. Acquitted. Evidence was a bit jumbled. 
1901-4-13 A. Alumni of St. Louis College form new athletic club - H.A.C. roster listed, with full names. Gleason, Joy, Cunha, etc.
1901-5-28 Republican. A policeman. 
1901-10-17 B. Made success - found wanted man. 
1901-10-20 Republican. Driven out football game for kicking a man when he was down. Was playing for H.A.C. 
1901-10-21 B. Says he did not kick man who was down but man who was standing, and only because the man had punched him. 
1901-10-23 A. One of members elected at H.A.C. meeting.
1901-11-16 Star. Has not lived reputation for brutality. 
1901-11-26 Gazette. Joy given drunken policeman to escort to police station - was punched by the drunkard and punched him well in return. 
1902-3-01 A. Fought fellow policeman late last night over debts - Joy won. 
1903-7-08 B. Police force increased from 12 to 18 last night - Joy rehired. 
1903-11-11 B. Will play right tackle for H.A.C. in first of league series. 
1903-12-17 B. "Barney Joy is in the best condition that he has ever been in during his life and will surely play a good [football] game." 
 1904-7-29 B. "Dan Renear swings a strong right arm, according to the indicator at Wood & Sheldon's store. His straight arm blow weighs 1340 pounds. Barney Joy registers second with a blow weighing 1075 pounds." 
1904-9-03 B. Has an interest in a property, the deed to which a man claims he was coerced into signing away. 
[1904-9-18 A. Lines. Big crowd. Barney Joy coached the Union Iron Works' pitcher, Kuhina, who lost 9-5.
1904-9-20 Star. "Mounted Officer Barney Joy." 
1904-9-25 A. Rejoinder to petition of 9-03. Joy only listed as a defendant by virtue of being husband of a defendant. 
1904-10-10 Star. Saw the murderer near the Honolulu Iron Works and chased after him, but the murderer climbed a fence and escaped him." 
1904-10-28 Star. Order prohibiting police officers such as Barney Joy from playing football.
1904-10-30 A. Good pic in football uniform. Frank Kanae are two of the H.A.C.'s best football players; also both members of the police force. As the game will not interfere with their duties they will be allowed to play. Good pic of Kanae. 
1904-12-01 A. Pics of Joy and "Cannonball" Kanae reproduced. "Barney Joy, the premier tackle of last season, is in fine shape and can be depended upon to play a smashing game." 
1904-12-27 Gazette. "Barney Joy, the baseball twirler, demonstrated that he was a fullback as well as a tackle. He made gain after gain through the Punahou line and the blue and gold boys could not withstand his fierce bucks. Joy is heavy and strong and with a little more experience should make one of the best backs here." 
    Kicked and punted. 
1905-3-04 A. Long letter by Joy detailing how he was victimized by a usurer. 
1905-11-22 B. Joy will play football for Mailes. 
1905-12-06 B. Pics of Joy and Gleason, former H.A.C. players who will play for the Maile Athletic Club.
[1905-12-10 B. Maile Ilima lost to Punahou in a hard-fought game. "Barney Joy proved a stone wall and few gains were made through or past him." 
1905-12-13 B. "Who says Barney Joy is a dead one? Barney played a fast game of ball Saturday and was every place at the proper time. Joy's kicking was a feature." 
1905-12-20 B. "Barney Joy is playing a star game at tackle these days." 
1909-1-13 A. Good pic. "Barney Joy, the one-time idol of every baseball fan in Hawaii, and still regarded as one of the best all-round players in the Territory, will probably go East with the Boston Nationals next season. He is now under contract to them, and is making his preparations to leave for the training grounds next season.
    Barney will not turn out for the local league season, as it means as much as his job is worth to leave work at four o'clock every afternoon and take a hike to the ball grounds. The big husky southpaw was given a month's rest by the Honolulu Iron Works, where he is employed, last season, and he does not feel that he can afford this kind of a lay-off again so soon.
    It is a good thing for Joy to take a short rest from the game at present, if he intends butting into big league company once more. He cannot improve himself much in his practise here, for there are few of the locals who can show streaks of brilliancy at the game equal to Barney, and it is only by the example of faster company that the big fellow will make himself better.
    He was pretty severely knocked during his session in the Coast league, but it must be said for Joy that this was due to the fact that he got in wrong at the outset. He was not very popular with his teammates, for one thing, and that militated against his showing the best form in playing. A ball-player, and especially a pitcher, certainly cannot be expected to show the best that is in him when he feels that the other eight men in the team are not backing him.
    Joy has steam to waste, a good, easy delivery, and is a fence-ball hitter, the latter being unusual for a pitcher. He demonstrated his class in the local league last season, when he slammed the ball over the fence for a homer at least once almost every game. [??????] He was good for a two-bagger most any old time, and wasn't particular about binging out a triple. But here again Joy did not have the goodwill of everyone back of him.
    If he breaks into the big league company again, with nothing to lose and everything to gain, Joy ought to make a showing. All he wants to cultivate is a cool head, and learn not to mind the jibes from the bleachers."
1909-4-01 A. Is negotiating with Santa Cruz. 
1909-5-28 B. Received offer of $300/month from Boston NL. 
1909-7-13 B. Helped put out a fire while in Maui with "St. Louis" team. 
1909-11-16 Hilo. "Barney Joy, the well known Honolulu baseball player, was a passenger in the Claudine last Sunday for Laupahoehoe, but as the steamer did not make a landing at the port, he came to Hilo." 
1910-10-08 A. "The case of Barney Joy, the former Seal, against the Boston Nationals was the subject of discussion before the national commission the other day. The following was clipped from Sporting Life: An appeal of Barney Joy. the Honolulu pitcher, to be released from the Boston National Club's re- serve list and be made a free agent, has been decided by the national commission. The player made his demand because the Boston club refused to send him funds for transportation and $250 advance money after he had signed a contract. The ruling of the commission was as follows: The records show that this player was drafted by the Boston National League Club from the Pacific Coast league in 1907; that he has been tendered a contract each year and has failed each year up to the present time to sign or return the same. There is nothing in the contract which he signed which provides that transportation must be furnished him or that salary should be paid him in advance. His application to be declared a free agent is therefore refused.'"'
1912-1-11 A. Higher quality version of much-reproduced pic. Is working out the Y.M.C.A. in preparation for pitching for Spokane NWES. 
1912-3-04 A. Joy will not leave for coast until 3-23; business matters are keeping him. 
1912-3-24 A. The Spokane club cancelled his transportation ticket. Joy at a loss.
1912-3-29 A. Joy still a bit confused, but not too upset.
    Stars are happy; he is their captain, and they need him. 
1912-5-14 SF via Star. Johnnie Williams contrasts favorably with Barney Joy, who was not teachable.
1913-12-18 SF Chronicle. "Barney Joy, one time with the Seals, appears to be a come-back. H. G. Lowry, sporting editor of the Pacific Commercial Advertiser of Honolulu, sends a clipping of a recent game in which Joy was the pitcher. He held the opposing team to two hits and won 7 to 0. He didn't walk a man and struck out five. Lowry adds that Joy is really heaving fine ball and worthy of attention from teams in this country."
 
BARNEY JOY (XTRA)
Francis Bernard Joy
Born: 1882-1-27 
Died: 1938-5-25
1938 obit has good summary of life outside of baseball including post-career pic


1900-5-25 Mother obit. 
1900-8-14 B. Inherited mother's estate - valued at $970

1907-2-17 Barney Joy beats Johnny Williams in benefit game w/ pic
large crowd out to see Joy pitch for last time before leaving for PCL

1906-6-22 Star. Pitching stats compared with those of Bill Hampton. 

year in PCL: 

1907-8-23 Babe Reuter, who Joy used to catch, wants to come to US and has offer from Portland. Jack Huston offered $4500 for Joy. Some club will probably have draft put in for him but he can be covered up somehow. "after game crowd of patriotic small boys attempted to carry him off field on shoulders"
Best liked on team. Rooters shout at him "hickey-hickey" instead of "wikiwiki"
1907-9-24 Called negro by Washington Post.
1907-11-22 Star. Return. 

1907-7-09 SF Bulletin. "Maybe if Bill Squires got as many chances to make good as Barney Joy he would turn out to be just as big a find. But what's the use of talking, as the poet says, May bees don't fly in July. Remember how, a month or so ago, every one was telling their next-door neighbors and relations about the quince that Danny Long had picked up in the South Sea Isles. Well, it don't look much that way now, does it? The big Hawaiian is going ahead and annexing game after game in championship form. In spite of the fact that the team behind him played ball that was anything but class A. he had such an assortment of benders to puzzle the Beavers with in yesterday's contest that he finished the afternoon one point to the good. At that the tailenders put up a game tussle and all but nosed out the Seals in the last few frames. Besides shooting the sphere over the pan in a manner that was pleasing to Danny Long's eye, Barney Joy further ingratiated himself in the good heart of the doughty manager by landing on the leather for two nice little hits that had much to do with the final scoring."
[1907-8-03 B. "Barney Joy is gradually catching onto the siang expressions. He heard one the other day which was never sprung in Honolulu. While standing on the coach- ing line Bill Devereaux piped over to big Barney, "Get Jerry, Barney! Get Jerry there!"
    Joy was puzzled. Bill's language was anything but plain. Finally he asked one of the Seals, "Who is this fellow Jerry Devereaux is talking about? I don't know any Jerry."
    After a good laugh Joy was enlightened as to who Jerry was.
1907-8-03 Oakland Tribune. Pitched one scoreless inning of relief. 
1907-8-04 SF Call & Post. Seals had lost six straight times to Oakland - Joy saved their honor by winning 3-1. Barney Joy "was the kid of victory and he had enough to blank a hundred Oakland teams if his colleagues had not gone wrong with him at a critical moment." 
    Joy allowed an unearned run in the 9th. Joy gave up one hit in the first eight innings and a second in the ninth. 
    "Devereaux, as usual, started out to have a lot of fun with Barney Joy and while the Oaks were on an even footing the kidding act was all his. But when Bill was thrown out at second on a close slide in the eighth the pride of Honolulu handed a few to the brindle boy, who was so thoroughly sore and out of sorts that he failed to come back."
1907-8-07 SF Bulletin. "Too bad Barney Joy can't pitch every day." Cartoon. 
1907-8-07 Oakland Tribune. "The kanaka grass burner had an assortment of curves, benders, and burners that played havoc with Dillon's men." Joy in "his very best form" - "seems to be a coming pitcher." 
1907-8-07 SF Examiner. Described as "dusky-skinned." Cartoon of Joy - "Did you all notice Barney's haircut." 
1907-8-07 LA Times. Actually tells how LA's first run was scored. Player scored during argument over play. 
1907-8-09 SF Call and Post. "Joy did not let out all his speed yesterday, but played more for control of the ball." Consequently, only struck out two. Largest Friday crowd in history of new park. 
    "It may not look right on paper to the skeptical brigade, but it goes all the same, and the Seals hung another on the Angel band yesterday afternoon. Of course, the whole team is entitled to share the credit for the fifth straight victory of the home team without a miss, but those who watched the proceedings insisted and still insist that Barney Joy was the one man who turned the clever feat.
    Barney deserves to be lauded stronger than any of his companions, for his magnificent pitching surely kept the Angels swinging for fair and hitting nothing most of the time. After putting a run through in the eye opening period, the champions fell to the shoots of the big Kanaka kid like a grove of bushers.
    The fans nearly went wild when they heard that Barney was carded to do the twisting. Everybody was there to give him the joyous hand of welcome when he entered the box. This may have had a lot to do with his grand work, for he was inspired with a bunch of confidence as soon as he heard the multitude shouting for him and only him."
 1907-8-09 Examiner. Joy asked to pitch the game because it was ladies' day. 
[1907-8-11 Examiner. "Barney Joy, the Honolulu lad, has been coming into his own in grand style of late. In the early part of the season he looked to be hopelessly amateurish. He had plenty of speed, but he lacked control, and as for fielding his position, he didn't know the first rudiments. Danny Long at that time came in for some rather severe criticism for the reason that he didn't give Barney opportunity enough to work. The kanaka was left home while the Seals made trips to Los Angeles and also to Portland, which hardly seemed the right way to treat him, inasmuch as he had come all the way from Honolulu to accept a salary which was probably smaller than that given any other box man in the league.
    It now appears that an injustice was done to Long in both these criticisms. The reason Barney was left at home was because he flatly refused to go out to the park in the mornings and work, and, in fact, cared more for the idle life which is led over-seas in his native land of dreams than for the arduous job of getting up early in the morning, beating it to the ball park and getting the benefit of practice and wholesome coaching. He had a lot to learn, but didn't know it. Now it is all but impossible to keep him away from the park. He is out almost every morning, with two others of the team, shooting 'em over the plate, while one man acts as backstop and the other as batsman. The result is that he is getting what he lacked in the early stages. Control is coming to him, and all the while he is learning more and more inside baseball, so that right now he stacks up well against any pitcher in the league. In fact, there are those who do not hesitate to class him as the star slab artist of the quartet of clubs.
    Long has been duly appreciative of the Honolulu boy's desire to do his best, and although the official figures haven't been given out, it is known that Barney has had two raises in his salary, and both of them of the handsome sort. So it seems that while Long hasn't been saying much about it, he has been helping Barney to make good, both by persuading him to work and by tendering him some financial encouragement. Barney is by far the best box-office attraction of any of the pitchers in the league. As a matter of cold fact, he is the only star, from a box-office standpoint, at present on any of the pitching staffs."
1907-8-11 Chronicle. "where the question used to be, 'When is the feller going to win a game?' it is now 'When is this feller going to lose a game?' " Joy has the Indian sign on the Angels - won his third straight win against them, and his fifth for the season. "Mighty fine work for a man that was considered a gilded brick a few weeks back." 
1907-8-11 C&P. Record crowd of 7K cheered Joy to victory. 
[1907-8-13 Chronicle. Jack Huston [St. Louis Nationals' scout] offered $4500 for Joy before leaving town but Long refused him. 
[1907-8-13 LA Times. Solid pic. 
1907-8-14 Oregonian. Beat Joy on bunts - scored two earned runs mainly via bunts in 4th, and scored two runs in 5th when Joy made wild throw on bunt. 
[1907-8-18 Oregon Daily Journal. Solid pic. Is most popular pitcher in Coast League. 
1907-8-21 Examiner. 
1907-8-21 Chronicle. Pitched a clever game. 
1907-8-21 C&P. Did not walk a batter - is acquiring control. 
1907-8-25 B. Was mowing the Commuters down until the 8th - didn't even allow a baserunner until the 5th. 
1907-8-25 Examiner. Sequence of scores in 8th: 1b, e (1/2), 1b (1/2/3), wp (1/2), 3, hbp (1/2/3), bb (rbi, 1/2/3), sac fly 7. 
    Pic of Barney going up in air in 8th.
    With the bases loaded, no out: "The Commuters did everything they could to excite Joy. They ran around the bags, jumped in the air, crawled on the ground, and even went so far as to shout at him in words which resembled the Hawaiian tongue. The combined efforts of the shouters had their effect."
1907-8-28 C&P. "Like the Seals, the Beavers were weak with the stick, three hits being the best they could extract from the puzzling benders of Joy, who seemed to grow more effective as the innings rolled by." 
[1907-8-30 B. Mike (Mique) Fisher disposed of his punk shop on Fillmore street. "there will be nothing stirring in Europe until he has visited the Hawaiian islands with his all-star aggregation, which will be in November. The ball tossers and their followers will miss Fisher, for his dump was their headquarters. There, the players assembled nightly to fan, play the machine and listen to Fisher's perpetual flow of hot air. Barney Joy could always be found at 'the smallest retail cigar store in the world.' "
[1907-8-30 Chronicle. Today is ladies' day. Joy likes to show for the ladies but wrenched his ankle on Wednesday (8-28) - may not be able to play. 
[1907-8-31 Chronicle. May have to take rest - twisted ankle going into 2nd on Wednesday and it's giving him trouble. It is hoped he will not miss time. 
[1907-9-01 Oakland Tribune. NVG pic. 
[1907-9-01 Chronicle. Joy thinks his ankle can stand pitching - he will pitch in the doubleheader today. 
1907-9-01 Chronicle. 4334 saw morning game and 8000 saw Joy pitch in the afternoon. "Barney Joy is one grand southpaw pitcher, as his work yesterday afternoon proved," but he must look to his laurels - Hartman of Portland, who beat him 1-0, may be even better.
1907-9-01 Examiner. Seals' inning streak snapped in afternoon game. For their series were 5-1 v. Portland. Oscar Jones relieved Joy in the 8th. 
1907-9-01 C&P. Barney Joy played well throughout the game - if everyone had played like him, Portland would not have gotten that one run. 
[1907-9-03 Bakersfield. Boston Nationals drafted Barney Joy. Joy pitched his first game on the continent at Bakersfield - Bakersfield fans wish him well. 
1907-9-03 Examiner. Has done much better work - did not appear to be trying very hard. 
1907-9-03 Oak Trib. "Barney Joy runs with all the grace and ease of a sick hay wagon." Seals disappointed to lose Joy by draft - will get only $1000 for him. 
[1907-9-06 B. "When Barney Joy was told that Boston had sent in a draft for his services next year he innocently asked: "Where is this place Boston?"
    The reply was: "It is about3000 miles east of here." "Gee!" he rejoined, shrugging his expansive shoulders, "but that is a long way to go to play baseball. Don't think I want any of that." "But they will treat you right," continued the bug: "Boston is a good baseball city."
    "That may be," said Barney, "and so is San Francisco. I am pretty well pleased with this city, and besides, I am as far away from dear old Honolulu as I care to go at present."
1907-9-06 Chronicle. Joy walked eight - had bad day. "Several friends of Barney Joy from the islands came out to see him work and they were disappointed at his showing."
    Joy is billed to pitch both games on Sunday. 
1907-9-06 Bulletin. "Muscular and massive though he is," Joy may have been overworked these past few weeks. 
[1907-9-07 Bulletin. Henry Harris, or Uncle Hank as he has been known to baseball fans for fifteen years, came out to see Joy yesterday. Oy vey. 
[1907-9-07 Oak Trib. Danny Long will give Oakland fans a chance to see Barney Joy on Sunday. Joy is just as popular in Oakland as he is in San Francisco. 
[1907-9-07 LA Evening Express. Good pic of Joy. 
1907-9-08 Oak Trib. SF doubleheader was played at Freeman's Park in Oakland. Joy only allowed one run until the 9th inning, when he allowed five runs on six hits. "This blowing up of the big fellow has happened several times of late." 
    "Whether Barney Joy possesses the bull dog qualities of courage that is so necessary to a great pitcher, the writer has been unable to determine; but it certainly looked toward the end of yesterday's game that Barney's college colors are a decided ochre." 
1907-9-10 C&P. Joy allowed three runs in the first inning but shut out LA from then one; was taken out in ninth with score tied 3-3. Game won 4-3 after 12 innings. 
1907-9-10 Oak Trib. "The belief that Barney Joy is the possessor of a cabbage for a head will be the belief of the twenty-first century, for it is the belief, beholden of H. G. Lowry, primate of the Press Box.
The one failure of Joy's life will be his inability to impress Sisyphus Lowry that he possesses anything but a cabbage where a head should rest. Some day, say 100 years from now, they will print Mr. Lowry's lucubrations on the subject, and Joy's standing will be placed for posterity.
    The twenty-first century, if it concerns itself at all about Barney Joy will see him, not as he really is, but as Mr. Lowry sees him.
    THAT Barney Joy possesses not one whit more grace than a pachyderm he showed in his fielding yesterday. Something useful may be turned out of his rare behemoth of a man, but we thank our stars and the cat of Egypt that it is not our task. Possessed of mulish strength it strikes us strongly that Barney is also possessed of a mulish mind. In the opening inning Barney tangled himself up with his feet in trying to scrape up Dillon's grounder and we can assure you that it was no graceful picture that Barney presented when he tried beloberedly to unfasten himself from the coils of his own feet.
    They say that great bodies move slowly, and the adage was never better illustrated than in the person of Barney Joy, when he attempted to field Dillon's bunt in the opening spasm."
1907-9-10 Bulletin. Joy remove when he showed signs of distress. 
[1907-9-12 Oakland Enquirer. It appears from the official records that three big league clubs tried to draft Joy. 
1907-9-13 Oak Trib. Joy walked three batters in the 5th. The fans implored Long to take Joy out; catcher Charles Street implored field captain Irwin to put another pitcher. But they left Joy in, and Joy allowed one more run but no more. Pitched a fine game overall. 
1907-9-13 B. Barney Joy won by the skin of his teeth. 
1907-9-15 B. 
1907-9-15 Chronicle. "As a failure, [Barney Joy] was a glittering success." 
1907-9-15 C&P. "the pennant aspirations of our boys are due for a ride in that balloon Barney Joy hires so frequently for his excursion trips." 
1907-9-20 C&P. Barney Joy won 2-1 10-inning game on ladies' day. Beat "cute little Johnny Hopkins," "the blond-haired lad from across the bay." 
    "Whether it was because he was not used to working alone or whether he just had an off day, no one knows, but Umpire Moore certainly handed the Oaks a package at the game yesterday. His decisions on balls and strikes were so poor and so patently in the Seals' favor that even Billy Brackett, champion rooter for the San Franciscos, pleaded for him to give the Commuters a chance. He also made two or three very poor decisions on the bases, and in every case he favored the Seals."
    "San Francisco's run in the first inning probably won the game, for with that run to fall back on the "kidding" from the Oakland bench and the antics of Wild Bill Devereaux failed to send Joy up into the air sufficiently far for the Oaklanders to chase runs across at will. Then, too, Umpire Moore, who, by the way, umpired in the same league Joy came from in Honolulu, helped to steady the pride of the land of poi by giving him all the best of it."
    1907-9-19 B. New umpire Moore has played in Honolulu. 
[1907-9-17 B. Pittsburg tried to draft Joy but lost out. 
[1907-9-21 LA Evening Post-Record. Solid pic. 
[1907-9-23 B. "The local baseball fans will laugh, but it's a cinch that Barney Joy will not wear a happy countenance when he peruses the article penned by a New York scribe to the effect that the Hawaiian is a full-blooded negro. It will pay the Eastern reporters to smoke up on their Coast League dope a trifle, as Barney is far from being a negro, and his name is not "Bill."
    It is true that the few colored players who endeavored to butt into the big leagues back East were forced to retire because the men on the opposing side generally jumped on them with sharpened spikes, but when big Barney shows up on the field and they see that he has no trace whatever of negro blood in his veins, the typewriter artists will get busy predicting a bright future, while the ball players will soon learn to like the good- natured pitcher. Manager Tenney needn't worry about the cold shoulder at the hotels or on the dining cars because of the chocolate hue of Barney, as he just has a natural tan that will wear off when not exposed to the sun's rays. The article reads:
    "The announcement that the Boston National League Club has signed a negro pitcher for next season has started a zephyr along the baseball circuit which is liable to develop into a hurricane before Manager Tenney solves the hotel and dining car problem which stares him in the face.
"Bill Joy (that is his name) is a cracking good pitcher, and is a native-born Hawaiian.
    "Some ten years or more ago the same thing was tried in the National League, but the negro second baseman who was with Boston found it so uncongenial that he had to quit. The negro infielder who played with Harvard for several years and then signed a contract in the New England League lasted little more than a month."
[1907-9-23 SF Chronicle. Did not journey north with the Seals. 
 
1908-2-15 Dick Reuter signed by SF; Joy by Boston NL
1911-8-19 B. Bats left. Is Stars' captain. 
1912-3-12 Cohn indignant to hear that Joy did not take the boat from Hawaii Cohn wanted him to take and will not report to Walla Walla until 4-03 or so.
1912-4-06 (Spokane) Will not come to pitch for Spokane - shows an indifference that does not please President Cohn. "Word from the islands" says that "Joy was way over weight and out of condition." 
1913-7-19 Barney Joy says sorry for being ungentlemanly Honolulu Advertiser puts on the heavy
1921-8-12 Pitching in Hilo. 
1921-9-05 Visiting in Honolulu from Kohala, "where he has been engaged for some time as head machinist in one of the sugar mills of that district."

1932 account of St. Louis College sports history - H.A.C. was a team of SLC alumni
        had Henry Oana too
1930-12-18 16-year-old son, Rufus Dickson Joy, died. 
1938-5-26 A. Obit. 
1938-5-26 B. Obit. One of first newsboys in Honolulu. 
1938-5-28 A. Pallbearers listed - baseball teammates. 
1938-5-29 A. good account of time w/ H.A.C. 

1906-10-04 En Sue & Joy sign with Frisco
1907-2-03 H.A.C. changes name to "St. Louis College Alumni" - they are the "red and white." 
    Talk of rosters and switches. Lemon is manager of Kamehameha. 
    Barney Joy has signed for $125 a month - on 2-16 there wil be benefit game for him played between HAC and picked nine. "En Sue does not go, because the manager of the San Francisco team feels that he cannot risk having too many players from the minor leagues, he having already signed a number." 
1907-5-07 "Bull Perrine", Coast League umpire, recollects playing with Joy in islands five years ago, and thinks he will make good. 
1907-6-10 Letter from Barney Joy to Jess Woods
1907-6-22 Soares gives long quote in article about Barney Joy
    "He is trained down. His old friends would hardly know him. That big stomach he had is all gone. He is trained down to the pink of condition. He does not look near as big as he did.
    He has improved a good deal since he went up there. The only fault he has is that he is a little slow on his fielding. But he is improving in that. His batting is strong.
    But the great difference between the baseball of the Coast League and of our league is not so much in the quality of the playing, though, of course, they player faster than we do, as it is in the planning and signal playing. Every play is made on signals." 
1907-7-04 preview.
    "Jim Gorman, one of the old time players and a good one, takes Fernandez's place at short for the Diamond Heads today."    
    Barney Joy threw a no-hitter against the Elks two years ago.
1907-8-03   Some cartoons from SF Examiner about Barney Joy.
1907-8-24 St. Louis needs to win to end season.
    San Francisco Bulletin cartoon imagining Barney Joy in return to islands. 
1907-8-24  Riverside League:
    "John Lo, the Chinese Athletic Club pitcher, who was under the training of Barney Joy for some time, when the latter was here, and who expects to follow Joy to the coast some day..." 
1907-9-03 contract offer sent for Dick Reuter (6 ft 200 lb.) for $150/month - what Joy first got

1908-8-02
"Barney Joy at right field went after the ball as it reached the foot of the benches lined along the fence. Barney's spirit was very willing but his flesh, instead of being weak was too strong. There is a physical reason for Barney's being unable to stoop with the greatest ease in the world, and the big man humped himself up and hunted that ball till he looked like nothing so much as a baby elephant digging up roots with its trunk."
1908-8-09  Joy umpired second game - had been umpiring some games.

 Oahu League
1910-7-26 Fans say the Japanese Athletic Association can have Athletic Park - real amateur games will be held at the league grounds. 
    Heavy gambling on the Wasedas is said to be the cause of the Japanese boycott. The Athletic Park management is concerned only with placating the Japs.
    At the last Oahu League meeting Barney Joy was ousted from his umpirial position by a majority of managers - Henry Chillingworth is installed in his place. The non-Japanese teams claimed Joy had ruled against them and for the Japanese team unfairly on several occasions. 
    Japanese were not happy with (correct) decision that went against the Wasedas in the Saturday game. 
1911-8-11 Oahu League meeting. One umpire appointed from all four teams.
    Andy Bushnell will be allowed to pitch for the P.A.C. Manager Marcallino released four players, including "E. Fernandez, the grandstand player, who is now busy on Maui showing the Keio-Hawaii game with his motion-picture machine." 
    Manager Pasera of P.A.C. released Manuel Olmos. "Olmos is a star player, but business seems to prevent him from turning out."
    Some players added by teams. 
    People were wondering if Barney Joy would make a motion to be allowed to pitch for the Stars, but he did not. 
    Desha claims his team has only reliable pitcher: Lota.

1922-6-04 A. Hawaiian Pines 7, Standard Oil 3. Pines won championship. Season now over. Duchalsky won for Hawaiian Pines - also pitched for Braves that day. Barney Joy umpired. 
    "The biggest gathering of baseball bugs that ever graced [Makiki field]" attended the game. "Every seat on the stands was taken and the field was spotted like an army of men at rest after a long hike. In addition, there were a hundred automobiles parked around the field." 
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Monday, March 3, 2025

Florida leagues

 Miami baseball
1956-4-18 memories

Central Florida League
    1931 Cocoa
    1932 9-1 standings
    1933 Cocoa 8-17 standings
    1934 did not play
    1936 dnp

    Lake Buddy milb good two-way. Very good control. w/ Sanford FLOR 1946-50  
    Leitz, Al 1933AA 1932 New Smyrna
    Newcomb, Tete Orlando
    Norwood, Call "Red" 1935 Cocoa

    Ferrazzi, Bill p - made pro debut at 28 with 1935 PHA 1931 Deland Demons

                a ton of close games in series

    1931-7-13 Review of Sanford Celery Feds
    1933-6-08 Neil Williamson appointed manager-catcher of Orlando. Succeeds Purcell as manager. Team has 6-7 record. Williamson has played in Piedmont and West Virginia leagues.
    1936-4-02 Jake Baker won 28 games last year - has been with Millers in training three weeks at DeLand and has made good. - Red Norwood signing with DeLand.
    1936-6-04 Last year Jake Baker was declared league's top pitcher
    1936-11-07 League planned for next year

    1931 Cocoa Indians

ade-Broward League
    1928


    1928-6-03 List of people endorsing candidate - Bob Hathaway works at service station

    1928-6-28 Herald. All boxes. 

Dade County Amateur League
    1921

      Bandrimer, Isey 1921 Larkin After FECL concluded schedule
 
     1921-9-17 "Winter baseball for Miami is almost a certainty, according to T.J. Murphy, manager of the Dade County Amateur League. Plans for a six or eight-club league that will play baseball all winter are well underway, Mr. Murphy reports."   
    The Realty Board nine has assumed the Miami Beach franchise.
    1921-9-19 Season's second half will close on 10-13. Schedule for remaining games.

    1921-9-01 Miami Ad Club beat Lemon City 18-2 (box) 
    1921-9-21 Standings, some lines, some boxes. Crims in Ft. Lauderdale lineup that played with Ft. Lauderdale team in 1922 (1922-9-01 Three Miami Magicians in Larkin line-up.

Dade County League
    1922 
    1935
    1938
 
    
    (1922-9-29 Standings, boxes.

    Covington, Chet 
        
    1935-9-17 In ten-inning game on Sunday, Chet Covington struck out 16 Sunshine Sweepers and Warren struck out 16 Wildcats. Now that is some pitching.

Dade Victory League
    1944
    1945

    1945-4-08 Pic of four Eastern Airline players, including Chester Covington

    1945-4-08 Eastern Airline 3, Army Ground and Service Forces Redistribution Station 0. Box. EAL used three pitchers, Covington last.

Florida East Coast League
    1920 
    1921 Ft. Pierce Commercials 2nd half final standings

    Bandrimer, Isey  if
    Riel, Frank p  1921 Ft. Lauderdale
    Purcell, Harry of .327 1922 AA 1921 Miami Magicians

     Sweetland, Les "Sugar" p 1921 West Palm Beach
 
    1920-9-06 Miami Herald. Purcell arrived to play with Miami after season in TEX. He will be in the lineup today "in accordance with the action of the league last night, making all new players eligible immediately." 
    1921-6-19 VG stats.
    1921-7-30 WPB. Looks like Miami team stayed at the Poinsettia Hotel. 
    1921-8-23 VG 1st half stats. 13 homeruns hit in 8500 at-bats.
    1921-9-02 Meeting held as Ft. Pierce requested season end on 9-15 instead of the originally planned 10-01. Miami voted to end the season this very week. 
        Ft. Pierce wanted earlier end date because of "financial difficulties in carrying out the season to 10-01." As all four clubs are running further and further into debt, Miami suggested we end in a few days.
    "The Miami club has been bearing the brunt of the support of the league, the attendance here contributing largely to the support of the other teams, as the league rules provide for an equal division of gate receipts. When the Magicians are on the road, they have been averaging only the guarantee of $60 a game, or barely enough to pay the traveling expenses of the club. The tail end of the season gives the locals a large number of foreign games, including a Labor Day engagement at West Palm Beach, and the directors voted to keep the team at home from now on." 
           Box, standings. Good crowd despite inclement weather. 
    1921-9-03 Herald. "Withdrawal of the Miami club from the Florida East Coast League, following the rejection by the other clubs of the league over a revised distribution of gate receipts proposed by the local club, was the principal event of the meeting of the club owners held at the Tamiami hotel last night." Ft. Lauderdale was not present so we don't know what it thinks - the other two teams are considering replacing Miami with Cocoa. 
    "The Miami club presented the following proposition to the league: That the Labor day game scheduled between West Palm Beach and Miami at West Palm Beach be transferred to Miami, and that in future league games the visiting teams be paid a guarantee of $60 per game, the home club to retain all gate receipts over that amount, instead of the present $60 guarantee with an equal division of gate receipts when one-half the receipts is more than $60.
    "The other clubs rejected this proposition and Miami announced its formal withdrawal from the league."
    C.F. Ordway, Ft. Pierce director, stated the team considers Miami a traitor if it drops out of the league.
    "At last night's meeting the Miami, West Palm Beach and Ft. Pierce clubs all reported that they were in debt, the total indebtedness of the league amounting to several thousand dollars. High salaries paid to players was given as the reason." 
    1921-9-07 2nd half final standings. Ft. Pierce was in 1st at 16-12.
    1921-9-12 (News) Miami-Daytona players arrested - all 24 of them. Deputy sheriff interrupted the game. "Cash bond of $1,200 for the 24 players was put up by the management of the teams, and the game proceeded to a finish." 
    "It was the first Sunday game to be played on the local diamond since last May when the Florida East Coast League decided to discontinue Sunday games after several arrests had been made. In previous trials of Sunday baseball players they have been acquitted by juries in the criminal court of record." 
    1921-9-17 The Miami Magicians had their picture taken at the ballpark yesterday but Isey Bandrimer arrived too late.
     1921-9-18 Very nice team pic of Miami Magicians, who finished 2nd in both halves of the schedule.
    The Magicians will probably play their final game of the season today. "It had been hoped to play games for the remainder of the present month, but the disbanding of the other East Coast league teams, as well as the Florida State aggregations, makes it difficult to book contests." 
    "Should the local season be brought to a close tonight the team will finish the season deeply in debt, Treasurer T.B. McGahey of the local club reported yesterday."
    1921-9-21 Really nice pic of Isey Bandrimer. Rated by fans as one of the best infielders developed on the east coast in years.
    1921-9-24 Miami will play West Palm Beach tomorrow (Sunday!) in a benefit game to be played for the local club "under the auspices of the Miami Baseball Association" in an attempt to pay off some of the club's $3,000 debt. 
    1921-9-29 Norbert "Spec" Dienecke, batboy and mascot of Miami FECL, is catching for his school team.
    1921-10-08 Francis Wall, "one of Bound Brook [NJ]'s best baseball players," recently returned home from playing in the FECL.
    1921-10-12 "Isey Bandrimer, second baseman for the Miami baseball team.-If someone were to die and leave me a million dollars I would invest it in the largest jewelry establishment in the south. I would quit playing ball and would forget that I ever had made a cent by manual labor. I would depend on my investment for my dividends."
    1921-10-25 Miami's participation in the league was a financial failure; proposals for how to make pro ball pay. "In the past the trouble was that the railroads got all the money." Under the proposed plan that would not be the case. "The men at the head of this league will arrange to transport the clubs by auto buses, even if they have to buy enough to transport the teams every day, if they choose." 
   1921-11-05 "Tatum park. as it is known, the Miami baseball park, is the largest enclosure used for that purpose in the south, and the largest that the present owners have heard of anywhere. It measures 650 feet in length, and is 550 feet wide. From home plate to the nearest left field fence is 440 feet, and from home to deep center is 630 feet. When Babe Ruth trained here with the New York Americans he tried on several occasions to lift a ball over the fence and failed to do so. He could not do the home run stunt in Tatum field in the two- game series played here at that time. Ruth may have knocked balls longer distances than the length of Tatum field, but he did not do it in this field. It is said that no player has ever lifted a fair ball from home plate over the fence.
    "The grounds are in fine shape, well sodded, and the grandstand and bleachers were put in first class condition last season for the Florida East Coast league with new wire protection for the grandstand. There is seating capacity in the grandstand for 1400 people and for about the same number in the bleachers, with abundant parking space for automobiles.
    "As the present owners of the baseball park, which is valued at $60,000, are lovers of the national game, they have protected the property for that purpose for two years. Numerous offers for the property have been made for subdivision purposes, and the park has also been mentioned as the logical place for fair grounds. Whether these offers finally result in the abandonment of the baseball park will depend upon the seriousness with which Miami considers the advantages of baseball as an advertisement for the city and entertainment for residents and visitors.
    1921-11-06 Two teams called the Yankees and the Giants, composed of former FECL players, will play the second game of their series at Tatum Park. 
    1922-8-29 Isey Bandrimer = Miami boy.
 
    (1921-5-06 Ft. Pierce. Standings and local box.
    1921-6-07 Miami Herald. Box, play by play. 
    1921-6-18 Miami Herald. All boxes.

    1921-9-16 Tampa FLOR 5, Miami 1.
    1921-9-17 Tampa 10, Miami 4.
\        1921-9-18 preview. Will be played at Tatum Park, 3:30 PM - admission 75 cents.
    1921-9-18 Tampa 10, Miami 1. 4th game of series - Tampa won them all. "Players of both teams and the umpires were placed under arrest after the game, for participating in a Sunday contest, contrary to state blue laws..."
    The officials of the local club paid $50/player to release everyone. The locals were also 'pinched' for their game with the Daytona Islanders on 9-11. In the spring players were found not guilty for this offense.
 

East Coast League

    1938-4-22 First half schedule for Vero Beach. In pre-season game, Lefty Covington of Miami beats Vero Beach 2-0 in 11-inning game. Vero Beach pitchers combined to K 20. White background behind pitcher made it hard to hit; a green screen will be installed.
    1938-7-31 Red Kaiser has 8-1 record. Only loss went thirteen innings and was mostly the fielders' fault anyways.
    1938-8-12 On 8-07 the Vero Beach Indians beat league-leading East Coast Motors twice. Short descr.
    1938-8-26 Vero Beach Indians will play double-header crucial to second half pennant. 

Florida Central League
    1932

    1932-8-25  On labor day, Leesburg and Center Hill, the half-season winners of the Florida Central League, will play St. Petersburg and Plant City of the Florida West Coast League. Plant City won first half of the West Coast League.
    "A special train will bring hundreds of Leesburg and Center Hill rooters to the city and these, added to the local and Plant City rooters, should result in the largest turnout of the year."

Florida State League (D)
    1919
    1928 BR No rosters

    1925-11-05 p.2 TSN. 3/4 of major league teams train in FL, but the state league cannot get through a season without some of its teams failing. Some history of league.
    Four-team class D league has struggled - but a class B league might work if real estate $ supported it. 
    "Florida, the home of the real estate man. Florida, the land where money is not mined but made on paper with real estate." Florida fans would swarm to the parks if given real classy baseball of the class B kind - no more of that shoddy class D knock-off.

    1919-8-21 Boxes. Hernandez, Cheo called Corcho
    1919-9-22 Orlando box
    1928-5-03 Orlando. All boxes. 1200 ATT.
    1928-5-04 Herald. All boxes. Bob Hathaway w/ Sanford.

    1928-4-07 Herald. Exhibition. Miami Hustlers 11, Harry Swacina's All-Stars 2. Note about pitchers' use of pitches.

Florida State League (D)
    1936

    1936-2-21 Description of how the Sanford team was funded. Lots of donations from locals. Organized by farmers.
    Sanford has team in FLOR but Orlando, three times the size, does not. 

Lake-Orange League
    1933
    1936

    1936-5-01 Leesburg roster. After absence last year, it looks like they have one of this year's strongest clubs in eight-team circuit.

Miami City League
    1921

    1921-11-19 Championship will be decided in game today. Many Florida East Coast League players will appear in the three-way doubleheader between the Miami FD, the South Atlantic Telegraph & Telephone Company, and the plumbers. "Should the firemen win both games, they will tie the wiremen for the league leadership, but if the telephone team emerges a victor it will 'cinch' the pennant." 

North Florida League
    1935

    Singleton, Lonnie/Lonny of, good in SEAL 1935 St. Augustine p 
    Young, Art (think it's him?) 1935 Jacksonville Tars

 
Northeast Florida League
    1933 



Pensacola Twilight League
    1935



    1935-6-07 Russ Scarritt (MLB) is new Police manager.

South Florida League
    1914


Southeast Florida League
    1933 



    1934-6-09 team and player commentary
    1934-7-28 Gossip. Doubleheader was big-hitting in first game, small hitting in second, as same four balls were used for both games. 

    1933-5-07 Opening day boxes
    

South Florida Coast-Glades League

    1953-5-21 Fort Pierce Chicks article
    1953-9-15 Commented final stats with first names
    

Sunshine League
    1932

    1932-8-25 Local amateur league. Games are free of charge. Milton Logan, former West Coast league pitcher, will pitch for Largo. 

East Coast Winter League
    1924-25


    1925-2-29 Herald. Championship series preview.

    1925-1-11 Herald. Box. Jack Olinger, of Miami = league's peerless slugger. 

    1925-2-22 Miami Herald. Championship series #1. Coral Gables 7, Fulford 4. Box. 

South Eastern Florida Professional League
    1924-25 Lake Worth

    Herbst, Kelley ok in mid-minors but career mostly outside 1924-25 West Palm Beach Gators "of old East Coast League fame"

    Dressen, Chuck 146 lb. 1924-25 Miami
    Foss, George 1921 WSH - if 1924-25 Miami
    Sweetland, Les "Sugar" 33-58, 6.10 ERA in MLB 1924-25 Stuart

     1925-1-04 Tribune. League commentary. "Rube [Zellars] had an unbroken streak of victories over in Cuba and he is likely to prove the best hurler in this league also." 
        Faulkner, Lake Worth, is the league's tough luck pitcher
    1925-1-10 Tribune. Miami signs Dressen, Koenig and Sicking. Miami team is major league quality.
    1925-1-11 Tribune. Star pros that Frank Gardner, Miami manager, is getting.

    1925-1-11 Herald. All boxes. Dressen & Koenig of St. Paul join Miami team.
    1925-1-15 Miami News. All boxes. "The game marked Fort Lauderdale's sojourn in professional baseball. Stuart, the enterprising hustling little city which is baseball crazy, purchased the Tarpons, lock, stock, barrel and all, and the transfer was effective after Thursday's game."
    1925-2-10 Miami News. Local box.
    1925-2-10 Miami Herald. Local box + solid account.
    1925-2-10 Miami Tribune. All boxes.
    1925-2-21 Palm Beach Post. Local box + good account. 
    1925-2-28 Miami News. 

    1925-3-05 News. G#1. Lake Worth 5, Miami 3.
    1925-3-08 Miami Herald. Box + account for deciding game of championship series.

    1925-1-04 Jess Petty in Miami uniform.

Sunshine League
    1925-26 

    Ammons, Bud 1925-26 Croissantainia 
    Bogart, Eddie 1925-26 Johnson-Moffat - leading league with .462 AVG as of 2-04
    De Meo, Henry 1925-26 Miami 

    Ballenger, Pel pro debut at 24, MLB debut at 34 1925-26 Miami Shores
    Foss, George 1921 WSH - if 1925-26 Corals Gable
    Gearin, Dinty 5'4" 148lb. 1925-26 Miami
    Scott, Jim 1925-26 Johnson-Moffat
    Stephenson, Riggs 1925-26 Johnson-Moffat
    Stryker, Sterling p 1925-26 Johnson-Moffat
    Wilkinson, Roy p 1925-26 Croissantainia 
    Yaryan, Yam an all-time great hitting catcher 1925-26 Johnson-Moffat

    1925-10-25 News. League meeting next week - nine organizations are looking for teams in the coming AA Winter League.
        Pic of Sumpter Clark (New Orleans SOUA) who will manage.
    1925-11-26 Tribune. Rosters w/ full names. Lists where they played in summer.
    1925-11-26 Herald. Rosters + cartoons of managers + league schedule.
        League president said that the players have been allotted with the idea of making a balanced race - "the clubs which turn out to be weak will be strengthened as there is a wealth of good material available."
        "City Manager Wharton yesterday ordered 3,000 bleacher seats from a firm in Newcastle, Ind. They should be here within a week, it was said."
    Umpires listed, including Swacina. Some review of rosters.
    "The Sunshine League is providing new cushions for the fans to chunk at Jack O'Toole and Augie Moran."
    1925-12-03 p.2 TSN. Bucky Harris signed to manage Coral Gables team - cannot play because major league contracts forbid players to play after 10-31. "The players of this organization have been recruited from class AA and class A minor leagues, with some of lower classification or of no classification." 
    1925-12-04 Ft. Lauderdale. League play will resume Sunday 12-06. Lists managers, notable players. George Sisler = Miami Shores MG. Gives Miami & Coral Gables rosters, listing their 1925 pro clubs.
    Frank C. Gardiner is league pres.
    "The immediate erection of bleacher seats at the municipal ball park. for the accommodations of the hundreds who cannot be seated in the grandstand, has been ordered by Frank C. Gardiner, president of the Sunshine Baseball League.
    The grandstand seats near to 400 spectators and last Sunday nearly 1,200 fans were obliged to stand up because of lack of seats. Gardiner has ordered that the bleachers be thrown up as soon as possible in an effort to have plenty of room for the crowds this Sunday afternoon when Coral Gables and Miami play. The bleachers have been sadly needed here, even during the football season and now that the baseball has proved so popular at the start, efforts are being made to provide comfort for the spectators."
    1925-12-20 News. Good batting stats. League statistician = Welbert Bach.
    1926-1-17 Herald. Good batting stats. 
    1926-1-23 Tribune. Batting stats.
    1926-2-04 p.6 TSN. Stats. "All six teams play in Miami Field in Miami, and each outfit has but two or three games a week to get away with. Naturally, the players keep in great shape, and it is felt they do not work hard enough to hurt them for their Summer's assignment." 
    Season began 11-29 and will end 3-07. Some players will have to leave a few days early for spring training. 
    Attendance is good despite competition. Games are played every day but Monday.
    1926-2-25 p.5 TSN. Sisler returned to St. Louis in the middle of last week "to get personal and baseball affairs straightened out."
    1926-2-25 p.6 TSN. Many Rochester IL players have been playing in Sunshine League.
    1926-5-08 Boston's battery - Wiltse-Gaston - same as Boca Raton battery. 
    1926-12-01 Herald. League organized - will open 12-12. John Cleary = "Miami sportsman, former president and prime mover in the organization of the Three-Eye League"
    1926-12-03 Herald. League meeting - will have 8 teams (listed) and be known as Southern Florida Sunshine League. John Cleary = president.
     1926-12-05 Herald.  "And we're going to have baseball, too, with Jack Cleary, a real baseball man, at the helm. It was Cleary who took charge of the mess which grew out of the Sunshine league last year and straightened out many of the tangles resulting from that blow-up. He did a right, noble plece of work for Miami last spring, though few here realize it. With a sane baseball man in charge the Winter Baseball League should be a success, and there will be some pretty good teams in it, too.
    
        1941-2-07 Profile of Jack Cleary, new racing commissioner.

    1925-12-20 Ft. Lauderdale. All boxes.
    1925-12-20 News. 1000 ATT. A cop was called to lead Duffy Lewis to bench as he protested too much.
    1925-12-27 Ft. Lauderdale. All boxes. "The game was totally free from home runs, something unusual in the local park" Bucky Harris = Coral Gables MG, Ira Thomas = Boca Raton MG, Frankie Frisch = Croissantania MG, Ollie Chill = Miami MG, Duffy Lewis = Johnson-Moffat MG.
    1925-12-27 Miami News. All boxes. W/ standings.

Winter League
    1926-27

    
    Foss, George 1921 WSH - if 1926-27 Opa Locka
    Sweetland, Les "Sugar" 33-58, 6.10 ERA in MLB 1926-27 Opa Locka 2

    1927-1-02 Herald. All boxes, standings. Watkins = Miami manager.
    1927-1-02 News.
    1927-1-09 News.
    1927-2-27 News. Box.

Florida Winter League
    1929-30

    Pace, Eddie I think. Born in FL. 1929-30 Brooklyn Cuban Giants

    1929-9-18 WPB. Two-game series today and tomorrow between Miami Red Sox and Brooklyn Cuban Giants at Lincoln Park. 

    1929-10-20 Will contain six negro teams - has the fastest active talent in the state. Season will begin 11-03 - teams listed.
    "The league will open the first half of its winter schedule November 3. Four teams will swing into action on the opening day. The Miami Giants will play the Miami Red Sox at Miami, and the Sarasota team will meet the Brooklyn Cuban Giants in West Palm Beach. Each series will be of five days' duration and will open on Sunday and close on Thursday of each week.
    Captain [J.E.] Scott, [secretary of the Dade County athletic club,] is busily engaged in shaping up and clearing the way for a battle for the winter. Already letters are coming from players of the big teams in the East and West offering their services for winter baseball.
    J. Brady Johnson, manager of the Brooklyn Cuban Stars, has been active in helping to round out the schedule and stimulating interest on the West Coast. It is the desire of the organizer that the league will not only demonstrate that winter baseball is practical, and desirable in this section of the country, but profitable."
    1929-11-01 Herald. The Red Sox have added to their line-up Cueria, formerly of the Havana Red Sox. "Capt. James E. Scott, organizer of the winter league stated today that the league has gone over the top and that he has men interested who are going to stick and play baseball. There will be five games of baseball in Miami each week. When the Miami Red Sox hit the road the Miami Giants will play in Miami.
    The games will start promptly at 3 o'clock Sundays, Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays of each week. There will be ample accommodations for white fans."
    1929-11-24 "The Miami Red Sox and Miami Giants, local negro baseball teams, will open their series at 3:30 this afternoon at the negro ball park in a benefit game for relatives of Felix Stirrup, catcher for the Giants, who died Thursday.
    The series was originally postponed but this plan was adopted instead. The Red Sox are at present leading the Florida winter negro league"
    1929-12-07 NPC. Extract from Miami paper. "Four fast Negro baseball teams are ready for the first Negro league." etc.
    1929-12-27 West Palm Beach. "City Manager Parker took under consideration Thursday a request that the Florida Winter Baseball League of Miami be allowed to stage two baseball games at Wright Field each week this season, using negro players. It is understood that the audience would be white."

    1929-11-03 Herald. Opening game. Luis Tiant shutout the Miami Giants. (Tiant always called Tian.)  Styrupp at catcher for the Miami Giants. Report of score from game between Fort Myers Giants and Brooklyn Cuban Giants played at West Palm Beach, but no box. 
    1929-11-12
    1929-11-14 Herald. Doubleheader. 
    1929-11-17 WPB. Brief commentary. Burke threw a shutout for the Cuban Giants against the Miami Giants. Cuban Giants are "playing out of West Palm Beach." Game was at Lincoln Park - the first of a five-game series.
    "Special seats have been reversed [sic] for white patrons, the games starting at 3:30 o'clock." 
    1929-12-16 Herald. Tiant shutout the Miami Giants again. Will play again at N.W. Seventeenth street and First avenue today. 
    


Winter baseball

1924-1-01 Tip Tops 5, Ojus 1. Ojus team disbanded after game - "Winter baseball has been found to be a failure here, as both the fans and players get tired of the game without a rest in which to recuperate their interest."


Antley, Joe 1911 Pensacola cartoons & interesting write-up. Big crowd. Lost to New Orleans Eddys.
   
Burmeister, Clarence vg p 1917 Pensacola Beat Navy Aero Station 4-0 - both teams made two errors.  "Grandpa Sanchez" is Pensacola 3b. 2 Lost to Aero 6-1.
Mitchell, Babe p 1930 Little River shutout University of Havana. 1931 Miami
Pond, Arthur long-time c. SOUA, IL etc.1921 Pensacola 2
Sewell, Jack p 1922 Miami Magicians

Collins, Orth 1922 Ft. Lauderdale - pitched and won - 42 years old. Only became regular pitcher in last two years in minors
Scarritt, Russ 1921 Pensacola Also in line-up is brother Harry. 1922 Pensacola Regulars game against Navy - Harry with Navy.
 Sweetland, Les "Sugar" 33-58, 6.10 ERA in MLB 1922 Miami Magicians 2

Miami

1908-2-03 Poincana 7, Miami Tigers 4. Line. 

Pensacola

1904-10-12 Biloxi 9, Pensacola 0. Biloxi made 1 error - Pensacola 15. Sanchez at 2nd for Pensacola. Big crowd. Worst game of season. 2nd team to be defeated by Biloxi.
1909-9-22 Pensacola 5, Meridian 3.
1910-6-01 Mobile 8, Pensacola 3. 
1912-7-04 Pensacola 4, Eddys 1. 
1912-7-08 Pensacola takes double-header from Eddy's
1912-8-17 Pensacola 5, Garyville of New Orleans 2.
1914-5-31 City League boxes. 3 combined errors in 1st game, six in second. 
    Twilight League rules. 
1914-10-11 1st game of best-of-three City League series between Whitmans and D'Alembertes. Sanchez at 1b-p for D'Alembertes.
1919-7-06 Play by play + box. Florala 4, Pensacola Regs 2. 13 combined errors. W/ Sanchez.
1921-5-28 Pensacola 7, Mobile Chickasaws 6. 
1921-7-26 Pensacola 1, Andalusia 0. Ryan, Pensacola manager-pitcher, wins own game.
1921-8-07 Pensacola 4, Gulfport MS 2. Sanchez at 3b. Thorpe from the GASL pitched for the locals. Gulfport player Long John Showers applauded every time he came to bat - "was one of the most popular players who ever wore a Pensacola uniform." "Lars Sanchez." = different Sanchez, born in 1900 (1944-5-21 profile + pic)
1921-9-23 Pensacola 5, Patterson LA 5. 11 innings.
1922-6-18 Pensacola 6, Montgomery All-Stars 5. 14 innings.

1922-10-01 Twilight League final stats. Harry Scarrit with Navy team. Rather low batting.

https://www.newspapers.com/search/results/?city=Pensacola&county=Escambia&date-end=1920&date-start=1910&feature-rs=true&keyword=sanchez&region=us-fl Sanchez played all thru 1910s.
    
Chet Covington

1932-4-24 Rosters listed for Miami diamondball leagues - he is on one.
1932-5-29 Dade County League today will for third time attempt to open season 
1932-7-03 Dade County standings. Has k'd 26 in two games. Tom Marshall = cigarmen.
1932-7-17 standings. I have all games.
1934-5-13 Pic with other employees of company?
1934-7-10 Fort Lauderdale stats incl. pitching. 
1934-7-28 Gossip. Doubleheader was big-hitting in first game, small hitting in second, as same four balls were used for both games. Covington pitched in second game
1934-8-12 Has 5-1 record
1935-6-02 Leading diamondball league in batting with .518
1935-9-17 In ten-inning game on Sunday, Chet Covington struck out 16 Sunshine Sweepers and Warren struck out 16 Wildcats. Now that is some pitching.
1936-5-09 With South Miami - will pitch in exhibition game against Tarpons, who he has played with for past two years
1938-7-10 Pic. Described as eccentric
Dade County stats listed - 1-1 with 28K and 7 walks in two games
1953-5-02 Will appear with North Miami - team is full of pros, who are listed. Team has 12-3 record.
1953-5-18 Beat Okeechobee 23-7. Okeechobee played game under protest, claiming Covington was illegal. 
1953-6-17 Former pros allowed in South Florida Coast-Glades League as long as they have been released.
1953-8-04 Leading South Florida Coast-Glades League with 7-0 record
1953-8-22 Came to terms today with Fort Lauderdale
1953-8-23 Was very good in debut for Lions. Called Bobo Newsom of minors. Interesting.
1953-8-26 Comes out of relief for Fort Lauderdale, FLIN.
1953-8-28 Started and lost for Fort Lauderdale Lions
1953-9-15 Led league with 7-1 record.
1954-7-19W/ pic.  Miami Flamingos offer him contract for last bit of season - he will accept only if his employer, Rolfe Armored Truck Service, grants him leave of absence. 
    Complains of effects of minor league chain system. 
1954-9-09 Trying to organize Dade County Amateur League for next season. Hopes to add four more clubs to four that have already filed for positions.
1954-9-15 Will bring club to play Key West. Covington managed own team, Dade Gas, and won Miami Amateur pennant.
1954-9-30 Stats for Stuart Sailfishers. Covington pitched three games for them and then disappeared - Tom Deese had to take over pitching.
1955-1-16 newly organized Dade County semi-pro league has six teams - Covington is one of organizers.
1955-1-20 Pic. Formed semi-pro league, but will leave its direction to others - namely, Joe Eaton and Ed Little. League is one of two chances for summer ball in Miami. 
1955-5-01 Stuart Sailfishers will face Miami team lead by Covington, who will pitch.
1955-8-07 (Miami News) Note to Chester Covington, the old Florida International figure: We lost track of you - report in, please, and tell us what you're doing. 
1955-12-11 Jerry Brooks, Patio Restaurant, writes asking what happened to Lefty Covington
1956-7-01 Greater Miami Amateur League standings + top batters. Knobby Rosa, former Miami Sun Sox star, is manager of Dixie Lily - Rosa and Covington were also together with North Miami (see 1953-5-02) Pitching staffs of all-stars and Dixie Lily listed.
1956-7-05 Greater Miami Amateur League all-star team wins 4-2 over league-leading Dixie Lily at Miami Field before 400 fans. Covington struck out 10 and walked none in relief for Dixie Lily - lost game in eighth
1956-7-14 Returned to softball diamond in old timer's game
1958-5-01 Currently drives truck for Miami meat wholesaler
1958-5-22 Says he is pitching coach for Dixie Lily
1958-7-17 Dixie Lily is 1st in Miami semi-pro league - has several old FLIN players
1958-7-20 Manager of Dixie Lily, Miami semi-pro team
1963-9-21 One of those running for Hialeah mayor
1961-10-13 "Lashed out at the proposed golf course and country club, said the bond issues would mean a 'huge tax increase.'"
1961-10-29 Lists professions of candidates.
1961-10-29 Aspiring councilman's platforms listed.
    Covington's: "Called for more economy in city government and added: 'I don't want a liquor license.'"
1963-10-30 Far back in final voting in race for Hialeah mayor. Received 485 votes 
1964-8-11 Joe Palaveda, former teammate, recollects Chet - tells yo-yo story.
    About 1946 FLIN:
    "That was back when minor league baseball wasn't quite as minor as it is now. It was when you didn't have so much TV, and baseball was the only game in town."
1972-8-12 Tomorrow Tampa Smokers old timers will play a few innings against Tampa Tarpons
1972-8-14 Pic. Interview + recollections. Was wrestler and boxer. Mixed relationship with Cubans.
1973-8-22 Pic pitching for old timers v Tarpons
1974-2-03 One of those who accepted invitation for MLB old timer's game in Florida
1975-6-11 Old timers v Tampa Tarpons
1976-6-15 obit.


1908-4-09 Miami News. Rollins College base ball team - champions of Florida. Team pic. Selected stats. Have two players from Matanzas. 
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