Monday, April 24, 2023

Happy Felsch in Regina

 https://leaderpost.com/news/local-news/happy-trails-banned-big-leaguers-journey-took-him-to-regina-in-1920s

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England - British - Britain baseball



1894 Middlesborough

https://www.projectcobb.org.uk/professionals.html
List of North American pros to play in England. 

https://www.projectcobb.org.uk/top-tier_stats.html
Roland Gladu led the London Major League with a .565 average in 1937. John Devey of Aston Villa led in average (.428) and wins (13) in 1890. 
https://www.projectcobb.org.uk/materials.html
Some really good stuff - 1930s progammes - etc. 
Progamme for 198th Battalion v. Epsom Hospital, 1917



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berry_Nieuwenhuys played for Hurst Hawks in 1930s along with two other Liverpool teammates.

1874-8-25 St. Louis paper quotes Manchester Guardian describing baseball as formidable rival to cricket. 

British Baseball Association
    1906
    1911

(1906-7-06 Fulham and Hammersmith Chronicle. Spurs 14, Fulham 12. Jarman described as excellent pitcher. 
1906-7-28 Observer. Leyton 11, Fulham 4. Described as best game of season. 
        Tottenham Hotspur 24, Clapham Orient 12. 
1906-8-25 Daily Mirror. Final to be played today. 

1906-8-25  Daily Mirror. Tottenham Hotspur 16, Nondescripts 5. 2.5K ATT. William Jarman with Spurs. 
1911-7-29 Daily Telegraph. Leyton 11, Tufnell Park 1. 

1906 BBA final standings

William Harman Learned baseball playing indoor ball in Cleveland.

London Major League
    1936
    1937


    1936-3-16 Evening Express. Three Canadian stars have arrived - Roland Gladu, Jerry Strong (Montreal Royals pitcher), and George S. Etheze (French-Canadian catcher who played for the Ottawa Crains in the St. Lawrence League.)
        1934-8-06 Etheze homers for Crains. 
    1936-5-02 Evening Standard. Jerry Strong pitcher. 

    (1936-5-17 Sunday Dispatch. Standings, commentary. Roland Gladu, returning from a broken nose and the flu, homered. Jerry Strong played. 
    Scores from other leagues. 
    (1937-7-18 Sunday Mirror. Gladu, West Ham captained, homered and struck out nine. 

Yorkshire League
    1937
    

    (1937-8-17 Hull Daily Mail. 

https://www.newspapers.com/search/results/?date-end=1937&date-start=1936&keyword=gladu&region=gb-eng


Canadian Baseball Championship in England. 

1917-10-20 Football Post. 101 teams from seven areas competed. 
 
    preview Semi-final of Canadian championship. 
1917-10-03 Surrey. Epsom Hospital 7, 13th Reserve Canadian Battalion. Epsom Hospital were winners of the London area, and the Battalion were winners of the Seaford and Shoreham area. 300-400 ATT. 1st baseball game at the Guildford Sports Ground. Lists run scorers and lineups. 
1917-10-10 Football Post. Canadian Buffs 4, Epsom Hospital 1.  4-5K ATT. 
1917-10-13 Surrey. Epsom Hospital 7, Canadian Buffs 1. Very brief summary.
1917-10-13Sunday Mirror. Pics. 

Canadian Buffs = 198th Battalion.

1917-10-31 Toronto Star. Very good. Gives rosters of Epsom and Canadian Buffs teams, listing their baseball experience in Canada. Toronto and Nova Scotia players.

Did Canada Save British Baseball? 

Fn. 22: "The roster of the Fort Garry Horses in 1915 reads like a who's who of Winnipeg Senior League baseball, for example." 

Carl Henry Blackadar
https://www.familysearch.org/en/search/record/results?q.givenName=carl&q.surname=blackadar
https://canadiangreatwarproject.com/person.php?pid=149517
Born 1885-11-30. Has 1915 paper when he enlisted. President address in Vancouver. Is a locomotive fireman. Is married. Is 5'6". Dark complexion - brown eyes - dark hair. 
1911-4-06 Vancouver. Came down from Juneau Alaska - spent a week here - left for Seattle, where he will visit relatives before being returning here. 
1915-4-28 Vancouver. Auto baseball umpire? 
1915-5-02 Vancouver. Captain of Vancouver Automatic Baseball team. Will journey to Bellingham to play Bay City quintette. 
1915-12-02 St. John Telegraph-Journal. With the First Canadian Pioneer Corps. His father was an alderman in this city. Has lived in Seattle for the past few years - went to Vancouver to enlist. 
1918-5-18 Seattle Cayton's Weekly. Dottie Blackadar has filed divorce against him for desertion. 
1919-6-04 St. John Standard. Tells of his successes as sergeant in economy. Saved huge amount of money by salvaging table scraps. Badly injured at Ypres. Has been in Canada since February. Has not been in St. John in eighteen years. On tour of inspection of maritime provinces. 
1920-4-24 Vancouver Province. Has spent a few days with his mother, Mrs. A. Blackadar of Portland OR. 
1920-5-04  St. John Standard. Received welcome - passed thru city yesterday in route to Halifax, where he will receive his discharge after five years of service. 
    Was conducting a mercantile establishment in Vancouver at the outbreak of war. Since the armistice has been engaged in repatriating coolies to their homeland. 
1926-4-01 Halifax. Wife died. 
 
https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/Roland-Gladu/
Cites two books - British Baseball and the West Ham Club (2007) - Josh Chetwynd and Brian A. Bolton.
    The Blokes of Baseball - Harvey Sahker. 

British Baseball and the West Ham Club (2007) Review - focuses especially on London Major League 1936-1937. Sounds good. 


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Sunday, April 23, 2023

Asahi

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Wednesday, April 12, 2023

 https://baseballblues.com/

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Sunday, April 9, 2023

Elk City Elks

finished 2nd, allegedly victim of fix
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Butch Davis


In his first year listed on BR, when he was 31, he hit .347 with 12 triples, 25 stolen bases, and 52 RBIs in 67 games for the 1947 NNL Baltimore Elite Giants. 

In 1950 he led the M-DAK with a .456 average, getting 78 hits, 18 stolen bases, and 40 runs scored in 42 games for the Winnipeg Buffaloes. 

In 1951 he split his season between the Winnipeg Buffaloes and the Albany Senators of the class A Eastern League. He hit .406 for Winnipeg to retain his M-DAK batting crown, and hit .350 with a .564 slugging percentage and 30 RBIs in 37 games for Albany. He was 35. 

He split 1952 between the EL Scranton Miners (.256 in 38 games) and Toledo/Charleston of the AAA American Association, hitting .319 in 77 games for Toledo/Charleston. 

He returned to the M-DAK in 1955 at the advanced age of 39 for the Minot Mallards and came within two points of a third M-DAK batting title with a .369 average (94-255). He only pinch-hit for the last two weeks of the season due to an injury, and Roy Weatherly was able to slip past him with three hits on the final day of the season to finish at .371 . Roy Weatherly had a ten-year major league career, hitting .286 in 811 games for the Indians, Yankees and Giants. 

Especially considering his age, Butch Davis had a very impressive professional record.

1949 Baltimore Elite Giants with Junior Gilliam

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Heart-stopping stats

 Hubert Glenn spent 1944 with the NNL Philadelphia Stars, winning 4 and losing 1 with a 3.65 ERA. At the plate he hit .360 with 3 homers and 8 RBIs in 25 at-bats. He pinch-hit in two games the next year, going 0 for 2, and that was his Negro League career. 

In 1951 he was pitching up in western Canada for the Claresholm Meteors of the Alberta Foothills League and put together a sweet stat line. At the plate he hit .535 (53 for 99) with 9 home runs, 17 doubles, and 4 triples and 21 walks for a 1.060 slugging percentage and .617 on-base percentage. On the mound he had a 17-4 record and struck out 207 batters against just 34 walks allowed in 166 innings. 

He was still with Claresholm in 1953, and hit .450 with 13 homers, 14 doubles, and 6 triples among his 62 hits. He won 16 games and lost 7.  

Those are the only two seasons statistics are available for him, but he played for Claresholm from 1951 to 1954.

1950 San Francisco Cubs
1951 Claresholm Meteors
1952 Claresholm Meteors
1953 Claresholm Meteors
1954 Claresholm Meteors
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Drain Black Sox




1952  32-6 (18-6) Roy Helser
1953           (10-2) Roy Helser
1954           (14-2) Roy Helser
1955  36-4 (22-2)  Roy Helser
1956          (14-10) Roy Helser
1957  19-6            Ray Stratton
1958  36-5            Ray Stratton
1959 47-13-1        Ray Stratton
1960 59-20           Ray Stratton
 
c Bill Beard / 52 53 1954 Drain Black Sox 1956 

1952

1952 intro to team - going out to get the best talent Don Kirsch originally supposed to manage
Roy Helser pic Helser & Storey elected to all-star team

p Roy Helser 7-2 record 
p Jerry Cade 53
p Gene Peterson TR Gene Peterson
p Hal Turpin
c-1b Bill Beard
c Chuck Bafaro Linfield star TSN contract card
1b Tom Myers
2b Don Kirsch Oregon coach
2b Jack Fassett from Eugene w/ Eugene Athletics
ss Mel Krause
ss-of Ad Rutschman Linfield 
lf Pat Wohlers former Oregon
cf Ted Wilson
rf Ron Phillips .405 for U. of O. 
of-p Wayne Johnson vet Oregon semi-pro player TR
Don Kirsch Oregon coach
2b Jack Fassett from Eugene 
Norv Ritchey .345 for U. of O. 
Glenn Cox
Bill Houghtman
Frank Jacobs local vet
of Don Kimball "Oregon star of a few years, now coach at Pleasant Hill High"
Howard Parks
Ray Cole

1953

of Glenn Stetter 55 
1b Dick Bartle 
3b Mel Krause hit .462 in Oregon State League '52 - Willamette High School coach
of Bill Kovans 
Chuck Bafaro
Lou Scrivens
of Ron Phillips




1954
5-26 record Linfield Wildcats were Northwest Conference champs

MG Roy Helser
p Carl Wickham  7-0 record
p Del Coursey TR all-Northwest Conference
p Chuck Fisk
1b Don Porter all-Oregon Conference - Portland State College
ss Bob Celler two-time all-state with Drain High - just back from Korea
3b Glenn Stetter
lf Dick Joslin   Oregon Tech
cf Ted Wilson   McMinnville high coach
Andy Anderson
ss Bobby Boub (Buob) Oregon State
of Joe Brock

1955

  1955 Drain team pic

p Jerry Cade /
p Dick Duerr
p Jerry Bartow
p Dick Weaver
1b Don Porter all-Oregon Conference - Portland State College
Bobby Boub
Glenn Stetter 
Jerry Bittendorf
Bob Diller
Chuck Bufaro

1956

6-16 roster listed + pre-season games

Coach Roy Helser
p Bill Croco TR from McMinville who pitched for Helser's championship Linfield team
p Richard Duerr also w/ Linfield team
p Noel Aronson from Whitman College at Walla Walla
c Bill Beard / 54 55
c Norv Ritchey / U of CA coach
1b Vern Marshall  55 56 
2b Ad Rutschman 52 53 54 55
ss Don Kirsch   Oregon coach 54 55
3b Ray Stratton  Drain High School baseball coach
of Pat Wohlers  of Portland  54 55
of Ted Wilson   former basketball coach at McMinville high school 54 55
of Norm Welch   from Clatskine
+of Bobby Sellers   from the university  55 also Bob Cellers
+ of Dick Olson    of Reedport  55
Cliff Girod 


1957


p Stan Dmochowsky 
1b Ron Bowen /
c Irv Roth
ss Dan Luby son of Hugh Luby
p Noel Aronson
p Jerry Pflug
3b Ray Stratton
p Jack Henkie
p Jerry Bartow
rf Pat Wohlers
lf Norv Ritchie
cf Jerry Gregg

1958 
pic w/ trophy "get giant greeting from Drain residents"
8-9 W-L listed as 28-4 went 1-1 after that and 7-0 in tournament
g #2 no good account

1959 

1960
55-18 as of 8-25 w/ Ray Stratton pic

1961

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Thursday, April 6, 2023

Humboldt Crabs

 https://www.northerncaliforniabaseball.com/humboldt-crabs.html

Won 15 straight California titles

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Links

        Tacoma City League


Joe Bauman says that the Elk City Elks may have been the last great town team (okay?)
Cannonball Bill Jackman awesome resource

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