Illinois
Chicago (general)
1925-4-26 50 semi-pro games scheduled today.
1926-5-16 Games scheduled.
1926-6-13 Games scheduled.
1927-9-11 22 games scheduled.
(1904-6-06 Trib. Jake Brown, Marquette pitcher, threw a perfect game.
1904-6-27) Trib.
1895-6-07 Chicago Amateur Baseball Association selects Inter-Ocean as its official newspaper.
https://www.chipublib.org/chicago-newspapers-on-microfilm/
Chicago Amateur Championship (Robert M. Sweitzer cup)
https://www.chipublib.org/chicago-newspapers-on-microfilm/
Chicago Amateur Championship (Robert M. Sweitzer cup)
1913
1921 St. John A.C.
1913-8-19 31 clubs in race in second round.
1938
Bartulis, Joe p AA 1932-35 1938 Raab Tailors Bartulis has pitched many times for & against Chicago Heights A.A. Came down from Toledo to pitch.
1938-8-14 Raab Tailors beat Chicago Heights 6-2 to eliminate them from Bowler Cup series. NVG box.
Chicago Bankers' League
Chicago Bankers' League
1924-10-19 Cermaks 3, Blues 0. (w/box) Series tied. Near riot halts second game of doubleheader.
Chicago City League
Chicago City League
1887 stats/standings
1892 final standings
1895 final standings (collapsed)
1909 Leland Giants final standings
1910 West Ends final standings
1918 6-10 standings
1925
1929 Mills 44-11 record
1931 Duffy Florals
1935
Sitter, Buck-Walt 1925 Albany Park Formerly of Blues. other pitcher for team is spit-baller Pushman.
23-9 record in MSVL; 2-2 in PCL. Young.
Driscoll, Paddy 1929 Mills win 17th & 18th straight games before 4.2K
Juul, Herb 1909 West Ends https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herb_Juul son of Illinois congressman, Niels Jull
McNaughton, Gordon p 1935 Mills SABR bio shot by jealous girlfriend in 1942
Sullivan, Lefty 1929 Mills blanked House of David before 4K ATT. shutout shutout shuout
Vaughan, Hippo 1929 Hoellens lost 7-1 to Lefty Sullivan 1931 Logan Squares
Squares beat HOD - Grover Alexander started, threw 3 scoreless. 7K ATT. 1935 Mills
Weaver, Buck 1929 Duffy Florals
Chicago Commercial League
1916
Greater Chicago Semi-Pro League
1948
1952 5-30 standings
1958 6-5 standings
Bartulis, Joe p AA 1932-35 1948 Oak Lawn Athletics
Skale, Dick c 1946 TL 1948 Berwyn Bendas 1949 Cicero
Veverka, Frank "Lefty" long-time two-way Memphis SOUA milb 1934-47 1948 Chicago Heights 1952 Chicago Heights AA
Hanski, Don CHW p 1948 Cole Lenzi 1949 Worth 1951 Worth A's P-M
MLB Nick Strincevich 1951 Worth A's B
1948-8-22 Berwyn. Previews.
1948-9-12 Talk.
1948-10-10 Berwyn. Chicago Heights is up 1 game to none in the best-of-three championship series v. Cole Lenzi. Veverka won 1-0 on 10-03. Game will be played at Lenzi park today.
Veverka helped the Berywn Bendas win the Midwest League championship in 1946.
1951-5-24 Blue Island. Roster/talk, with full names.
1951-5-31 Blue Island. Preview. The Chicago Firemen, league team, are Chicago's oldest traveling team, having been in existence since 1919.
1951-7-26 Blue Island. Don Hanski day is next Sunday. Hanski suffered an aggravated heart injury which forced him to retire seven weeks ago. The Worth A.C. will host the game at Bly Field, 6900 W. 107th St. in Worth.
1952-5-30 Chicago Heights. Preview. "It no longer ranks as news after all these years, but lefty Frank Veverka will go into his annual holiday week-end iron man act, pitching today against the Tribe and then coming back with one day of rest at Berwyn."
1952-6-03 Chicago Heights. Talks abt CHAA team & its history. Was reorganized in 1946.
"Gas rationing and the absence of quality performers called a halt to semi-pro ball during the war years. but in '46. Hap Bruno got together for Midwest league play a group consisting of Bill Linko, catcher: Hale Swanson, pitcher; Joe Spak. first base: Frank Madura, second base; Bob Jackson, shortstop; Frank Labuda third base; Stork Garzelloni, right field, Guy Jacobucci, center field and Ed Spak. left field."
"EVERYONE CONNECTED with the club, Bruno included, will admit it is difficult for a newcomer to break into the lineup if he doesn't come up through VFW league ranks. If the guy isn't playing twilight ball locally, then no one here has any idea of how he'll react under pressure.
That is the reason why "the number of new ball players who start the season with the club and after many Sundays of warming the bench quit the team," as set forth in the fan's letter.
The CHAA manager has two benchwarmers now Virgil Tones and Jim Ogien. He believes both have the makings, but aren't quite ripe. Both need VFW league play, at least a season of it, before they are ready tor the Greater Chicago league.
AND WHILE THE turnover on the A's is a rather substantial one, it would have been quickened except for the military draft. By this time both Lou Capacasa and Lou Pignotti would be playing regularly with the A's if they were not in minor league ball. And Lou Simonetti would be about ready to break in. But all three, and many more locals of promise are in the army..
Capacasa and Pignotti, both of them signed Chicago White Sox minor league contracts before entering service, have been in the shooting war in Korea. Cap won the bronze star when he carried a wounded buddy for more than a mile. The lad died later as a result of his wounds.
Due for discharges during the next couple of years is all kinds of baseball talent. Many who were making baseball a career will turn to it as a diversion. In addition to Capacasa. Pignotti and Lou Simonett. we'll have such fellows as Joc Palcek. Art Klein, Bob Simonetti and Gerry Bradley, plus collegians Serge Sokolowski, Fredd Ruhe. Billy Graham. Jerry Baranski and Jerry Jacobs."
"WE'D OF HAD another new face in the CHAA lineup if Don Poppe hadn't turned capitalist. The husky lumberjack who spent the past two summers in this area purchased a beverage business in his Wisconsin home town and isn't around here this season.
Poppe made considerable impression as a pitcher and outfielder with the Matteson Boosters. He won the VFW league most valuable player award two straight years.
When he visited here this spring. Poppe confided to friends that he would have reported to Manager Bruno when CHAA practice opened. It is a cinch that he would have earned a regular berth in the outfield.
AND WHILE the fellows who aren't around just now are sorely missed, worst blow suffered by the A's was the traffic crash which badly injured Carl Pierandozzi, center fielder and clean-up man and the club's leading hitter in 1951.
A good all 'round athlete, Pierandozzi was just coming into his own as an outstanding baseball player.
His kneecap was badly injured in the accident and they say he'll never play baseball again. We'll believe that in a couple of years. Pierandozzi is a determined fellow."
(1948-8-25 Berywn. Standings, commentary. 10 teams in league. Frank Veverka, former Benda lefty, won his 15th game in 17 starts. League transactions.
(1949-5-25 Standings, slight commentary.
(1949-6-22 Standings, Worth-Cicero box.
(1952-6-03 Chicago Heights. Veverka beat Berwyn 12-6; knocked out of box in 9-8 loss to Skokie Indians.
1952-8-17 Chicago Heights. Local box + good account.
1957 Arlington Heights Red Wings Dick Bokelman, Tony Esposito,
Pics:
1963 Blatz Warriors
Midwest League
Midwest League
1930
1930-8-31 Second round of Sweitzer cup in Midwest League - seven games carded
1930-9-01 Playing for Robert M. Sweitzer cup. Neisen has team in league.
Midwest League
1937
1945 Skokie Indians
1946 Benda Coals
1947 Chicago Steelers
Boim, Irving p 41-70 1946 Keeley Beers
Houska, Frank 1b .379 1940 WA 1946 Benda Coals
Veverka, Frank "Lefty" long-time two-way Memphis SOUA milb 1934-47 1945 Acme Tools 1945 Skokie Indians 1946 Benda Coals
1945-4-27 Frank "Giggs" Veverka has signed with Acme Tools, manager Chuck Straka announced. Profile. Veverka was briefly with BRO in 1946 and might have made the grade had he not had a serious illness.
As Clar Benac is supposed to do most of the pitching in the early part of the season, Veverka will play 1b and relieve.
"With the arrival of June and warm weather, local fans will have ample opportunity to witness the pitching ability of Veverka for the Acmes have scheduled a number of twilight games at Berwyn Field and also several traveling night contests under the lights.
Veverka is a Berwyn boy, but sport fans from this vicinity have had scant opportunity to see him in action because Frank left every spring to play minor league ball and didn't return home until late in the fall. This year he hopes to make up for lost time."
1945-5-06 Clair Benac has thrown 15 scoreless innings. Veverka will play first and bat clean-up v. HOD.
1945-8-31 Preview for Cole Lenzi doubleheader. Veverka has a 10-2 record since joining the Indians in early June. Lenzi Field is at Route 66 and East ave., four miles south of La Grange.
1946-3-20 Acme Tools season preview. Runners-up last year. Have applied to Berwyn Board of Recreation Commissioners for the use of the 31st street and East avenue ballpark. They played their every Sunday afternoon game there last year. The Acmes also plan to play weekday twilight games in Berwyn as they did last year.
Al Smart and Norm Olsen are the team's sponsors. Chuck Straka is manager. They went to the finals last season - the first time that's been done by a first-year team.
Battery last year was Stanley "Pops" Grabarski (TR) and "Dutch" Hoffman. Hoffman described as former Seattle PCL (?)
1946-5-03 Opening day preview. Joes Benda & Vodrazka have selected former Chicago Hornet manager Ted Trybul to manage the new Benda Coal Hornet team. Joe Vodrazka owns the Chicago Hornets.
Besides two major leaguers, Muddy Hayes, former Cole Lenzi player and the league's leading hitter, will be with B.C.H.
Joe Bubalo, doctor with the U.S. Navy during the war and the league's leading home run hitter last year, will also play. Described as former minor leaguer but can't find him on BR.
Lou Benedict will begin his second season as manager of Krier's Skokie Indians. Skokie plays at Oakton Park, Cicero ave. and Oakton st.
Lou Benedict is beginning his ninth season in the Midwest League, "oldest and largest semi-pro circuit in the United States." He began managing in the league in 1937 with the old Melody Mills of Berwyn.
Benedict used to scout for Memphis SOUA and is well-liked by Berwyn fans. He managed the Coals from 1940-1944. He is also active in amateur ball. He married a woman he met in Skokie last year.
Chuck Straka told players that there will probably be no Acme Tools team this year.
1946-8-04 League has 24 teams. Cup Race begins today. It will be double-elimination instead of single elimination as in years past. The Benda Coals are 10-10 while the Keeley Beers (aka Half and Half), managed by Chuck Jablonski, are 12-5. Doug Minor is the league president.
Berwyn field is at 31st st. and East ave.
Glen Ellyn has lost just one game all year. Directions to field where Glen Ellyn will play the Maciejewski Boosters are given to Berwyn fans.
Pic of three Benda Coal outfielders
1948-8-01 Talk about elimination series. Chicago Steelers won last year, with the Firemen as runners-up.
1937-6-06 The Kotaska Realtors of Berwyn beat the previously-undefeated Stanek-Kaske Boosters of Chicago 21-7. The game was played at 31st street and East avenue. The Realtors were making their debut with their new sponsor.
1945-9-09 No box. Skokie Indians 11, Acme Tool Services 4. G#1 of final.
\ 1946-5-05 Benda Coal Hornets 9, Chicago Ace Fasteners 7. Season opener.
Joe Benda and Joe Vodrazka are co-sponsors of Benda Coal team. They went to great pains to put together a good local team "so that the local fans would have Sunday and twilight baseball to watch this summer." Expenses for a semi-pro team are not trivial so support the team.
Acme Tools, which sponsored last year's second place team, is now sponsoring a softball team.
1946-8-25 Berywn. Lou Benedict's Benda Coals won their 4th straight game in the league elimination series. Veverka allowed 7 hits and collected three of his own in 5-2 win v. the Root Bros of Roseland (Chicago neighborhood.) Box.
Also box for Chicago Hornets-Maciejewski Boosters of Cicero.
National Catholic Athletic Association
National Catholic Athletic Association
1910
1910-10-09 Box. Neither team made an error.
Park Owners' Association
Park Owners' Association
1910
1910-10-08 West Ends, City League champions, beat Fisk Colts, leading white club of the Park Owners' Association, 7-4. Sykes' sixteen-game winning streak was snapped. Fisk Colts turned a triple play.
Pros:
Anson, Cap 1909 Anson's Colts
Clemens, Clem c called Tub Clemmons - think it's him? former STL, it says but Clemens was CHC/CHI. 1926 Mills c-MG - day will be held for him.
Hearn, Bunny 1919 Romeos lost 8-5
Kafora, Jake 1919 Gunthers 1919 Romeos
Lange, Ervin-Erv 12-11 in 1914 FL; only time as pro 1910 Rogers Park
Lange, Ervin-Erv 12-11 in 1914 FL; only time as pro 1910 Rogers Park
Starnagle, George c - 1g with CLE 1898 Belleville Clerks signed in September
Vaughn, Hippo 1936 Chicago Mills (12th straight win)
Says team is best in Northern Illinois.
Mancuso, Ed brother of Gus - if 1930 Bill Neisen's Pyotts
Wiggett, Al 1950 Streator Athletics
Yore c 1923 Gunthers
Zitzke, Fred 2b 1926 Rochelle Giants errorless game
1910: Rogers Park won championship of North End 6 games to 1 v. the Gunthers.
Yore c 1923 Gunthers
Zitzke, Fred 2b 1926 Rochelle Giants errorless game
1910: Rogers Park won championship of North End 6 games to 1 v. the Gunthers.
1910-10-08 Rogers Park 6, Gunthers 2.
1910-10-09 Rogers Park 5, Gunthers 4. Final game.
Navy
Navy
MLB:
Faber, Red 1918 Great Lakes
won 36 games in 1917 WA
1918-11-12 Great Lakes won naval championship. Faircloth eyed by big league clubs
Liuet. Johnny Lavan, MG; Felix Chouinard - field leader?
1921-6-15 Staleys 6, Charleston 0. With Lotshaw, Halas, etc.
Eddie Stack https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=stack-001wil
Eddie Stack https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=stack-001wil
26-24 MLB - never played in minors. SABR bio says he was wealthy and didn't have his full heart in it.
1930-5-15 "Another likely looking star on the Pyotts is Chuck Stewart, former Illinois University star, who was grabbed by the St. Louis Cardinals following his graduation, but who decided at the last minute to accept a good position with the Equitable Life Insurance company and passed up the national pastime as a legitimate profession. Stewart has headquarters in Chicago. His home is in Lafayette, Ind."
"Johnny Neisen, son of the pioneer Chicago semi-pro magnate, is an infielder on the Pyotts." Others listed.
Heading into the 1909 season, Gunthers Manager Bill Niesen told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
“‘I paid him [Keeley] a big salary for working one day in the week but Washington didn’t think about me when it signed him to a big league contract. He was my best asset as far as players are concerned and yet I had no protection for him. I have close to $100,000 invested in my plant [Gunther Park]…but must stand to one side whenever a big league club owner chooses to take away one of my players.
‘Now Keeley…wants to come back to Chicago and continue his work in the bank where he was formerly employed. If he does this, he will be forced to give up his Sunday ball playing, for which he can make as much as he can make in the bank, simply because he is tied on the reserve list of the Washington club. If he comes out and plays with my club, he’ll be blacklisted and my club will be set down as tainted and filled with outlaws. I don’t wish to be dragged into such trouble, but if Keeley refuses to play in the big leagues and the big leagues refuse to release him, I may take him in once more.’”25
"The independent United States Baseball League began play in 1912. Bill Niesen owned Chicago’s entry, called the Green Sox, and Keeley served as manager. The Green Sox played their home games at Gunther Park. Chicago uncorked the season with a 15–8 loss to Cleveland on May 8, at home, with a mere 2,000 fans in attendance.40 The league lasted one month and four days before it folded. Poor weather and attendance, and scarcities of capital and bankable star players factored into its demise.41"
"On December 29, [1913,] club president Charles Weeghman announced he had purchased land – once owned by Mike and Joe Cantillon – for a new ballpark at Clark and Addison Streets on Sheffield Avenue, directly to the north of DePaul.45 With the opening of Weeghman Park (now known as Wrigley Field) the following spring, nearby Gunther Park was abandoned. The old Gunther Park site became the extant Chase Park in the 1920s, a city park named for Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase."
1926 Hammond, with Buck Weaver
1935 Niesen's Colored All-Stars
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"Driscoll was being auditioned without any formal agreement, not uncommon in those days." https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/Paddy-Driscoll/
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