Thursday, June 15, 2023

Ohio leagues

 Ohio


1900-7-29 Future MLB 1.15 ERA, Pfiester, Jack, with the Shamrocks. 
1901-6-09 Pic of Phillip Meek, manager of the undefeated Seymour Reds. Batavia team pic. The Globe-Wernicke Company Club has the old leaguer, Emig.

Boxes:

Akron City Elimination Series
    1919

 
    1919-8-22 Goodyear refuses to play any of the final matches at the field of another; Miller refuses to play anywhere but Buchtel Field. An impasse. 
    1919-8-23 President Al Tustin: Must play at Buchtel Field & tomorrow. 

    

Akron City League
    1918

    1918-8-20 Beacon-Journal. Luther Taylor, pitching for Goodyear, beat General Tires 7-4 to win the A.A.B.A. title. Goodyear is 12-2 for the season and Taylor is 6-1. "After concluding Saturday's game Taylor was carried from the field on the shoulders of his silent supporters."
        I.K. Wickline, pitching for Flying Squadron, beat the Balloonists by the same score of 7-4 for the championship of Goodyear. (Deciding game of series between the champs of the two shop leagues.) 
    "On the Flying Squadron nine were three other deaf players: T. Hinchey, catcher: T. Barron, second base, and Joe Allen, third base. A crowd of some 150 deaf rooters "rooted" lustily, making up in sheer pitch and volume of lusty lung-power what they lacked in clarity."
    Dummy Hoy has arrived at the Goodyear plant - hopes to start an indoor baseball league over the winter.

    Summa, Homer confirmed by SABR bio 1918 Goodyear

    1918-6-23 Sun. Standings, boxes + one line. 5K ATT to see Dummy Taylor.

    1918-8-29 Beacon Journal. Championship series tied a game apiece. General Tires 4, Goodyear 1. "The game was witnessed by a crowd of fully 2,000 fans, largely Goodyear rooters who arrived in truck loads armed with the monster megaphones with which they were to celebrate the victory they were expected to win. The noise magnifiers were not needed or used to any great extent."

Akron Industrial League (A.I.A.A.)
    1920
    1921 
    1922 General Tires

    Fisher, Bill p 1-2 1920 Akron IL 1920 Firestone 2
    Lane, Joe p 1919 Whitman & Barnes partial confirms: 1 2
    McKinstry, Percy p TL 
    Vaughn, Jim p 1922 

    Atkins, Tommy 1920 Firestone batted 5th
    Fisher, Clarence 0-1 WSH 1920-21; long-time IL 1919 Firestone
    Snyder, Bill p WSH 1919-20

    1919-1-03 Hume Le Prince Battiste joins Goodyear mutes. 
    1919-6-11 Dummy Taylor returns to Goodyear factory & team; had been coaching baseball at Kansas School for the Deaf. 
    1919-7-30 Big Bill Powell hopes to bring Honus Wagner's Pittsburgh All-Stars to face Goodyear in September. Powell = MLB Powell, Bill
        Question of whether A.I.A.A. amateur rules mean that Keib, who received money to pitch for Wadsworth on the Fourth of July. Akron Industrial League has interpreted rules as saying that no player who has received money for playing during season is eligible; other industrial leagues take laissez faire approach. National officials seem to agree with Akron's interpretation.
    1919-8-19 Three Industrial League players will join Senators at season's end. Clarence Fisher throws underhand. 
        Experts believe Goodyear and Goodrich will battle in finals.
    1919-9-10 Bill Powell's Goodyear Industrial League team will face the Goodyear Silents for the Goodyear championship today. The Silents have a 14-3 record this year. If Bill Powell allows it Dummy Taylor will pitch for the Silents against his customary team. 
    1920-5-05 Rosters. Managers listed.
    1920-5-07 Season schedule. 
    1920-7-29 Thur. Games scheduled. Teams divided into class A and class AA. Goodyear Silents in class A. 
    1920-8-07 Evening Times. After the Whitman & Barnes baseball team had defeated the Massillon Agathons Wednesday at Massillon, Joe Lane and Bill Gill, having a few moments to spare and nothing in particular to worry them, got their heads together, dug up the old dope bucket and went to work. After five or six hours of diligent figuring they came to the conclusion that Whitman & Barnes may now claim the championship of the world.
Here is the dope: Cincinnati, world's champions, were trimmed by New York, who in turn were defeated by the McElroys of Youngstown. The Agathons beat McElroys and Whitman & Barnes won from Massillon.
So that puts the Akron team, now tied with Goodyear for the Industrial league lead, in world's championship class.
    1920-8-30 AA averages.
    1921-5-17 Beacon Journal. "The Class AA Industrial Baseball league will have only five clubs, for the first two weeks of this season, at least. At the manager's meeting at A. I. A. A. headquarters last night the Trapas team declared that it could not comply with the employment rule of the association, which specifies that men representing a company in athletics, must be in the employ of that company.
    "Still clinging to the idea that a six club circuit will work better than a five, Chairman of Baseball Harry Garman suggested that the present schedule, which is made out for six teams and has been adopted, be followed for two weeks, and then, if no team is found, to revise the bookings."
    1921-5-30 Beacon Journal. Goodrich has retained half of last year's squad. Lists roster.
    1922-8-22 Standings. General Tires is 11-1-1. Pics of Percy McKinstry and Jimmy Vaughn. 
        "M'KINSTRY is spending his second summer in amateur baseball here. He's a Pittsburg boy, made his first appearance in Akron in 1920, pitching for the Mesta Machine of Pittsburg against Goodyear in the National Industrial series. He lost- lost on an error, 1 to 0. "Kibbie" Keib twirled for Goodyear in that game.
    In the early part of 1921 "Mac" drifted into Reading and tried out with the Reading International league team, of which Dick Hoblitzel was manager. He was released after a month or so, due to lack of control, which, by the way, is one of his worst faults.
    He came to Firestone and Akron after his sojourn with Reading, and has been the hero of many brilliant sandlot games here. Last season in a crucial series with Miller Rubber, "Mac" pitched on a Saturday, won his game and put Firestone in a tie with Miller for first place in the Industrial league. The following Sunday he lost a heart breaking 14 inning contest to Miller, the victory giving Miller the Industrial flag.
    Besides pitching with Firestone this season McKinstry has been twirling for the Massillon Agathons and has won games over Canton, Zanesville and other fast teams.
    He's 24 years old, five feet 11 inches tall, weighs 165 pounds, and attended West Virginia Wesleyan for a short time.
    Is he headed for the big show?
    "You can't keep him out of it," says his manager, Paul Sheeks. "Cleveland, Detroit and Pittsburg have been after him, and if he retains his control there's not a bit of doubt that he'll make good."
McKinstry is a speed ball pitcher with a wonderful hook.
    VAUGHAN'S career has been stretched over a longer period [?] Vaughan of General Tires in this cor- [?] varied as McKinstry's. Jimmy started out in the Dixie league down in Georgia some eight years ago. He worked there three years.
    Then he felt the call of the wild and started on a tramp which ultimately landed him in Akron. "Bill” Cahill of General Tire must have heard of him as soon as he struck the Rubber City, for he lost no time in signing him up.
    The latter has been hurling for the East End plant ever since-five years except for one season when he bolted the local team shortly before the middle of the season to play with the McKinney Steels of Cleveland.
    Jim made a little baseball history in Cleveland that year. He won 10 consecutive games for the McKinney crew in the Triple A league. Then, in the last game which was to decide championship of the league, someone figured that Dillinger, the pitching hero for McKinneys the year before, should win the title.
    Dillinger started, and allowed four runs in the first inning. Vaughan went in and finished the game, shutting out the opponent in the remaining eight innings; but his good work availed little. His team lost, 4-3.
    This year Jim has won 12 games for General in the Industrial league. Besides these he has won seven or eight independent settos. His losing record is limited to one game, that to Zanesville.
    The opposing team averages about one and one-half or two runs off Vaughan. He averages eight or nine strikeouts a game, issues not more than one free trip to first, and can be depended on to hold the opposing hit column to about six scattered blows.
    What made Sunday's game so hard for Vaughan to lose was the fact that he had already trimmed Fire- stone twice before with McKinstry on the mound. In the first game he beat the Non-Skids 4-1 and in the second 3-1, making a total of seven runs for General against two for Firestone in 36 innings of baseball.     Jim is a spitballer of the old school and knows the moist delivery as though Coveleskie had taught him. With wonderful control and an easy sidearm delivery, he is well able to carry a game into extra innings without fatigue.
    His spitball is what will most likely keep him out of big league baseball. That and his comparatively small build. He stands five feet eight inches high and weighs 145 pounds. He is 27 years old.
    While it is not known whether or not he has any offers from either major or minor league teams, it is a well-known fact that semi-pro and outlaw teams throughout this part of the country have tried to talk business to him.
    But the prettiest compliment which has been paid him yet was a telegram from a large news syndicate which reached the sport editor this morning. It read: "Is Jim Vaughan of General Tires the former Chicago Cub pitcher?"
    0-0 tie will be played off tomorrow.     
    1922-8-23 McKinstry and Vaughn will rematch today - league pennant hinges upon result. Both teams have solid pitchers to fall back on if their starters tire - O'Brien for General and Kinley for Firestone. 

    1919-6-22 Dummy Taylor gets into first game of season; has been mainstay of Goodyear staff in previous years. 
    1919-6-29 Boxes. Attendance 500 for one game, 3K for another. 
    1919-8-03 Attendances 250, 1K. 
    1919-8-07 Evening Times. Thur. Goodrich 1, Whitman & Barnes 0. "Seddie" Sedgwick, new Goodrich pitcher, is a former Washington DC sandlotter.
        Mike Kahoe is the Goodrich director of baseball.
    1920-7-25 Beacon Journal. Sun. Boxes. AA standings. General Tire beat American Rubber 18-4.
    1920-8-14 Sat. Boxes. Paul Sheeks = Firestone MG. Atkins of Firestone beat Miller 1-0 in 11 innings.
        Previews and listings for Sunday games.
        "Goodyear Silents and A. C. & Y., in class A, play over their game which was thrown out by President Tustin of the A. I. A. A. a week ago. That game ended in a riot so Tustin is taking no chances and has ordered ample police protection for this game at the stadium."
    1920-8-18 Wed. Evening Times. One box.
    (1920-8-30) Goodyear and Goodrich are "ancient rivals."
    (1921-5-30) Sun. Boxes. W/ standings. Only four total errors in the double-header.
    1922-8-20 Beacon. General Tire and Firestone battled to a 20-inning scoreless tie as Jimmy Vaughn and "Percy" McKinstry dueled. McKinstry stuck out 33 batters while Vaughn struck out 24. McKinstry struck out 18 batters and allowed one hit in the first nine innings. 
        "A small crowd was at Seiberling field at the start of the game, but news of the battle going on seemed to spread through the town and as the game traveled further into extra innings, the field was lined with fans and automobiles."
    The game took 4:15 and was called on account of darkness. 
    1922-8-23 Jim Vaughan (sic?) beat McKinstry 4-0 - General Tires clinched pennant with 12-1 record. Vaughn has thrown 50 consecutive scoreless innings. Estimated crowd of 4.5K fans. "General employes were let off from work at 3:30, and came loaded down with noise-making apparatus." Vaughn has won three straight games over McKinstry this season. 

    1919-8-24 General Tires 2, Goodyear 0. 4K ATT. General Tires will meet Whitman & Barnes, Industrial League pennant winners, for city championship.
        Bill Powell in lineup at first base
    1920-9-10 Goodyear 2, Firestone 0. 2K ATT - 10x more than attended Akron IL game. Goodyear are city industrial champs - will represent Akron in American Industrial Athletic Association. Kibbie Keib, former Syracuse College star, won for Goodyear. 
        "The Firestone band, with a big squad of rooters, pulled vigorously but in vain for a victory. Between innings, the crowd amused itself by smashing all straw hats in sight." 
    "Lanky Bill Powell" at first for Goodyear.

    1919-8-18 Akron Goodyear 6, Killingly CT Goodyear 5.
    1919-9-01 Akron Goodyear 1, Cleveland National Lamp Works 0. 4K ATT. 

    1922-9-12 New York Yankees 9, General Tires 4. Ruth did not homer but Yanks played competitively. Brewer, Brooke, NFL player and coach, played for General Tires. 
        "BRIGHT spots of the New York Yankees' 9 to 4 victory over General Tire at Elks' field yesterday was the work of Pitcher Jim Vaughn of General Tire.
    Jim got away with a very nice job of hurling against the American league leaders if you take all things into consideration. The odds were against him. Without attempting to belittle the General Tire team, we can frankly say Jim Vaughn is the team.
    As for the runs and hits made while he was in the box- consider how few of those hits would have been hits with a major league club back of Jim."

    1920-3-27 Heinie Maag pic. 

       
    Blair, Hap VG CENL 1928 Firestone 2/2 HR
    Burdick, Johnny p 13-11 1929 Akron CENL 1930 Firestone
    Humphrey, Charles p decent B 1928 Firestone
    Schmalz, Andy p 1928 Goodyear beat Flint Buicks

    1926-9-04 George "Bozo" Miller, leading Firestone pitcher, has signed with Baltimore and is supposed to report at Toronto today. Only Miller BR lists as having pitched with Baltimore in 1926 is a Miller, Charles who pitched one game. Bozo Miller was actually Miller, Granville
    1928-8-18 (New London CT) Team pic of Nonskids. Nonskids have won 32 of 37 games. 
    1929-3-26 Hap Blair has signed with the Akron Tyrites. Last year, playing for Firestone, he hit .418 and led the team with 22 home runs. Ulysses Fitts, now the business manager for Akron, discovered Blair's ability in 1927, when Fitts was managing the Ravenna Industrial League team and Blair played for it. Blair led the league with 16 homers that season. John McCloskey expects to make a first baseman out of him.
    Johnny Burdick was 17-6 for General Tires last year while pitching under the name of Johnny Knell. 
    1929-4-29 "DAYTON, April 29.-Big Bozo Miller, obtained free from the Baltimore Orioles through some of the manaeuvering tactics that have made Honest John McCloskey famous during his two score years as a baseball manager, lived up to the faith McCloskey has in him by holding the Dayton Aviators to two hits here yesterday and helping the Akron Tyrites to a 7-1 victory.
Miller never had much of a show with the Orioles. It seems that a minor pitching fault kept his great reportoire of "stuff" from being 100 proof because of wildness.
Honest John watched him work a few innings the first day he reported to the Tyrites this spring. Then the Louisville sage told him what the matter was; a bit of foot work which extended about eight inches in the wrong direction as he pitched."
    1929-6-07 Firestone Nonskids averaging .333. Commented averages. 
    1930-8-27 Many of Firestone's players are dealing with injuries. 

    1928-6-17 The Firestones smacked the Buffalo Easterbrands in a doubleheader. They had advertised themselves as the best semi-pro team in NY, and Paul Sheeks, Firestone athletic director, gave them the largest guarantee given to a Firestone opponent in several seasons, but they were no good. They drove ten hours in two private cars that seated five each, only bringing ten men. 
    1928-9-11 Firestone 13, Akron Tyrites 9. 
 
    1926-8-15 Firestone took industrial championship of Akron from Goodyear. George "Bozo" Miller, who was instrumental in Goodyear securing the title last year, won for Firestone yesterday. Nonskids won series 4-2. 
    1928-7-15 Firestone beat Goodyear 16-1 to take annual series four games to none. Firestone outscored Goodyear a collective 60-17 in the series. 

    1929-7-20 Cleveland. Goodyear beat the Florida Cuban Giants 13-6. There were four homeruns made, "the first made on the new field. All were made inside the park as the nearest fence is about 400 feet from home plate." 
    1930-8-17 Lost 5-1 to Homestead Grays for Akron Guards, but struck out Oscar Charleston three times. 
    1930-8-26 Homestead Grays beat the Goodyear Wingfoots 18-4. 
 
      1950-6-26 Jimmy Vaughn thinks they should bring back the spitball. He pitched an average of better than two games a week for 18 summers. Six times he won both games of a doubleheader. 
        He began when he was 16 as a town team pitcher in Eastman, GA. "His repertoire included a fastball... 'a pretty good one, too,' Jimmy brags... plus a curve. An ex-Braves hurler, Filingen, took a liking to the youngster and taught him the spitter."
        Talks about spitter methods - good career talk. VG.
        Pic of Jimmy Vaughn as player, now, and illustrations of how he gripped his pitches. Shows how to throw spitball knuckler and ordinary spitball. 
    Tells how when they faced Elvin Hilty they'd doctor the ball so Hilty couldn't throw his spitball but Vaughn could still throw his paraffin ball. 
    contin. SLB tried to sign him in the mid-20s but they wanted to farm him out - Vaughan declined. 
    1956-3-21 Jimmy Vaughn almost almost beat the Pirates for the Akron General Tires in August 1926 - lost in the 11th. Speed Bosworth remembers the game. 
        VG. VG. Memories of Ketchum and Hilty.
    VG. VG. VG.     REALLY GOOD. REALLY GOOD. REALLY GOOD. 
    1957-3-17 Jimmy Vaughn's friends are saying goodbye. He turns 65 on 3-18 - will retire from General Tires at the end of the month and leave for Florida.
        Fans remembers his 56 consecutive scoreless innings; 15 consecutive wins in the Industrial League in 1919; two no-hitters, etc.
    Jimmy Vaughn pic - vg profile. Would hire himself out at $100 a game. 
    Raymond "Snooks" Dowd, General Tires 2b, from Springfield MA, is recovering from an illness. 
    1958-3-10 Memories of Bunny Corcoran, the man who Jim Thorpe called the greatest end in the history of football. He died last week. Played ball for the General Tires in 1925-26. Remembered as being about 6'2", 225 lb. 
    Corcoran went on to direct the Hearst sandlot system in Boston, separating the wheat from the chaff; discovered Frank Leja, Harry Agganis, Tom Gostall, and Bill Monbouquette. 
    1959-3-01 Pic of Percy (Perc) McKinstry.
        Really really good memories of Harry C. "Beanie" Heintzelman. 
    1972-4-16 Granville "Bozo" Miller obit. 
    "RAVENNA - Granville "Bozo" Miller, who once pitched against "the greatest baseball team in history," died Saturday in Rose Lane Nursing Home, Massillon, after a short illness. He was 72.
    Born in Byesville, O., Mr. Miller came to the Akron area in 1918, lured by the prospect of playing baseball in the league sponsored by the rubber manufacturers. He won a place in the Firestone
lineup and pitched for that team for most of the next eight years. He also played for a time with the Goodyear team.
    But his greatest thrill came in 1926 when he was signed to play for the Baltimore Or-ioles, then a Triple-A club in the old International League.
    YEARS later he thrilled his children and grandchildren with stories of pitching in exhibition games against big leaguers including the 1927 New York Yankees, which he described as "the greatest baseball team in history," and the Pittsburgh Pirates, 13 of whose players he once struck out.
    After three years with the Orioles, Mr. Miller returned to Akron and resumed playing with the tire builders in Firestone Stadium.
    HE MOVED to Kent in 1937 to be closer to his job at the Twin Coach Co., which closed in 1956 after he'd worked there 25 years. After that, until he retired in 1965, he worked as a bowling alley maintenance man.
    In recent years, Mr. Miller lived at 5693 S. Prospect st., Ravenna."
    1981-10-04 Jimmy Vaughn was elected to the Summit County Sports HOF in 1963. 

        "The clash between the Orphans, winners of the National Baseball Federation title last year, and the Bombers, champions of the All- American Amateur Baseball Federation Association, will decide the national amateur baseball champion.. It will mark the first time that the champions of these groups will collide, but the game may develop into an annual affair."
    The Bombers are 201-54-1 since their organization in 1942. The Orphans are 237-52 in a five-year span. This year, the Orphans are 23-5 and the Bombers are 29-10. The Orphans had their greatest season ever last year, with a 58-7 record and a thirty-game winning streak. "They won the Akron City class A crown three years in succession and top the circuit's National division this year." 


Cleveland Amateur Baseball Association
    1910-1932


    1915-6-27 White Autos 3, Tellings 1. 10K ATT. Good pics. Other boxes.

Cleveland City Championship (C.A.B.A.)
    1915
    1916


    Schardt, Wilbur "Bill"  p BRO 1911-12 1927 Tellings
 
    1915-9-09 Engineers 5, Whites 1. 10K fans.
        White Auto Johnny Hyson hit one of the longest hits ever in the stadium - made an inside-the-park homer. Atkins fanned 14. Both teams have 12 players - limit is 13.
    1915-9-12 Sunday game. 2nd game of final series: White Autos 2, Stinchcomb Engineers 0. Ollie Welf of the Engineers was a hero; though his leg was hurt he pinch-hit in the bottom of the 9th in an attempt to start a rally. He doubled with one of the longest hits ever made in Brookside Stadium, made a heroic effort running, had to be helped off the field and pinch-run for, but it was all for naught. 
    The crowd was not just huge but enthusiastic.  Lots of description of crowd. 
    "Big Six" Louie Crowley and his spitters shutout the Engineers. "Smiling Tommy" Atkins pitched for the Engineers. 
    Big description - and play by play of how the runs were scored. Managers are: Fred Doherty (Engineers) and Babe Minnis (Whites.) 
    Pics and little cartoons. "Most photographed game in the history of the sport in Cleveland."Attendance estimates ranged from 35K to 75K. Plain Dealer places it at 45K-50K
    1915-9-16 Autos 3, Engineers 2. 27K ATT. Autos were behind 1-0 until ninth. Thousands rushed onto the field after the winning run was scored - hoisted Crowley onto their shoulders. The largest crowd ever at Somers Park.
    Pics. 
    1915-11-08 Thousands welcome White Autos - national champs - on return. 10K fans - 4K of them employees.
    1915-12-21 Two White Autos, including Crowley, have signed with big league teams; Minnis is filling vacancies. Pic of Bill Cole.
    
    1915-9-15 Pic of two White Autos, Salattel and Dobson.
    1915-9-16  Plain Dealer prints out scorecard for fans - and gives CABA class A championship series averages for both clubs. 12K free seats available, first come, first serve. Autos & Engineers have been reserved certain sections of the grandstand in return for paying for the use of the park. 
     1915-9-18 (Detroit) pics of three Cleveland White Autos stars
    
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    1915-9-19 Laundrys 1-0, Autos 5-2. 6K paid ATT, 1K from Cleveland. White Auto fans brought along their famed noise. Atkins k'd 14 in the 2nd game.
    1915-9-25 White Autos 5, Detroit Grand Laundrys 1. 20K ATT. Good pics & cartoons.
    1915-10-03 Autos 11, Johnstown 0. Cleveland 4, Johnstown 0. Crowley won both games - only threw 5 innings of the first. 60K-70K ATT. Largest and noisiest crowd at Brookside all season. 2K White employees attended. 
    1915-10-06 Autos 1, Columbus Mendels 0. 12K ATT at Brookside. Mendel manager is protesting bc Auto 3b coach (Atkins) patted runner at third on back.
    1915-10-27 San Diego B & G 5, White Autos 4. 1K ATT. Minnis started game but was smacked and had to be relieved by Crowley.

    1916-8-27 Eagle Stamps 7, Perfection Springs 0. Crowley threw 2-hitter; best game of his career.

    1916-9-06 Eagle Stamps 5, Telling-Strollers 2. Pics of rival managers and top player of game.
    1916-9-10 Telling-Strollers 9, Eagle-Stamps 2. Crowley smitten. Good pics.

    1916-9-10 Telling-Strollers 12, Columbus Panhandles 10. 40K ATT for doubleheader. Erret "Bullet" Rodgers a hero - came in from shortstop to relieve when starter was being hit hard - stayed in for the win. 

    1927-9-25 Permanent Home Sales 7, Tellings 3. 20K ATT. AAA City title. Cy Perkins = Realtors MG. 


Cleveland Plain Dealer Trophy Class A
    1949 Radiarts
    1950 Wenham Truckers
    1951 Wenham Truckers
    1953 Radiarts 2nd half final standings

    Brizes, Walt of 1951 .231 OHIN D 1953 Rusco Windows
    Graff, Roland-Rollie p. Struck out 20 in a 1946 game; 1-11 pro record. 


    1946-7-14 It's Amateur Day. The Cleveland Baseball Federation is in its 37th year. 
    "C.B.F. Amateur Day Medical and Equipment Fund." 
    "When some of the patrons who had contributed to [Max Rosenblum's patron fund drive] learned that the drive might not surpass last year's record of $15,500 and reach the goal of $16,000, they informed I.S. (Nig) Rose, drive manager, to call on them for more donations." 
    "Cleveland's thousands of sandlotters are dependent upon Amateur Day funds for hospitalization and for the obtaining of equipment for the youngsters of the lower classes. It has been the loyal support of the fans which always has made this possible.
    20,000 Crowd Predicted
    Rose, in charge of ticket sales, said last night that with good weather a crowd of 20,000 is almost certain. The record Amateur Day turnout-24,413-was set in 1939.
    Four games compose the card, which opens at 10:30 in the morning and will run for about nine hours.
    Vying for the fans' interest will be the "Little World Series" battle between the Akron Orphans and the Baltimore Glenn L. Martin Bombers and the second-half Plain Dealer Trophy Class A struggle be- tween the Bartunek Clothes and the Volk Jewelers.
    The clash between the Orphans, winners of the National Baseball Federation title last year, and the Bombers, champions of the All- American Amateur Baseball Federation Association, will decide the national amateur baseball champion.. It will mark the first time that the champions of these groups will collide, but the game may develop into an annual affair."
    The Bombers are 201-54-1 since their organization in 1942. The Orphans are 237-52 in a five-year span. This year, the Orphans are 23-5 and the Bombers are 29-10. The Orphans had their greatest season ever last year, with a 58-7 record and a thirty-game winning streak. "They won the Akron City class A crown three years in succession and top the circuit's National division this year." 
    Good pics of four local players and Baltimore's slugging outfield. 
    1946-7-21 Pat Hannan was made manager of Ferbert Fences in late May. Team will play the first-half champs, the Volk Jewelers, at Noble Field today. Alex (Doc) Muir manages the Jewelers - Hannan began the season as coach under him. Muir is good friends with him and was one of the first to congratulate him when Sheldon Ferbert asked him to manage his team. 
    Hannan is a 35-year-old ruddy faced Irishman. He was born in Ennis, County Claire, Ireland, and came to America when he was one year old. He began "playing ball on the sandlots here in class E and worked up to class B, first became a manager in class E and one of his first players was Jimmy Wasdell, now with the Cleveland Indians." Wasdell, Jimmy MLB 1937-47
    The Fences were 2-5 in the first half when Hannan was named to succeed Bernie Maher as manager. Hannan began to experiment and ended up releasing 12 players, keeping three only. Lists his signings, with full names. The team didn't start to win consistently until the beginning of the second half. Hannan gives all the credit of his pitching staff's success to Ed (Lefty) Husak. 
    1953-7-07 League reserve clause will face first test as dissatisfied players will go before Cleveland Baseball Federation arbitration Board.
    Amateur day raised $3,000. 
    1953-9-11 Players added to Radiart Corporation that will represent Cleveland in NBF

    1952-7-08 Bonness k's 15 and allows 1 hit. W/pic. 
    1952-7-20 Bonness throws 1-hitter. W. standings. 
    1953-5-30 Start of story. 
    1953-5-30 boxes. & some pics. 
    1953-7-14 Boxes + standings. 
    1953-8-11 Bonness k's 19; was within a strikeout of tying the league record of 20, set by Rollie Graff of the General Heat Treating club, 1946-7-23. Lefty Dick Peterjohn previously held the season record, setting down 18 Factory Furnitures on strikes June 28 in a no-hitter.
        Jackie Donovan won season batting title with mark of .371.
    1954-5-16 Opening day. Bonness allowed 1 hit in 8.2 innings of relief. 

    elimination series
    1950-9-04 Wenham Truckers 3, Radiarts 2. 13 innings. Truckers win class A series and right to represent Cleveland in NBF. Bonness won his 18th victory of season. Pic of Bonness + vg action pic. 

    1953-8-18
    1953-8-23 Bonness throws four-hit shutout. Set season record two weeks ago with 19K. 
    1953-8-24
    1953-8-25
    1953-8-27 Rotbarts win; qualify to finals. 

    1953-8-27 Bill Bonness was less active this season than in years of yore, but he's won his last five starts. Has 10-2 record for season. Seeks to win his third elimination series game in five days on Sunday.

    

Eastern Ohio League
    1894



Eastern Ohio League
    1924 8-10 standings
    1925 5-4 standings
    1927 1927 final       1927 Championship game
    1928
    
    Carnegie, Ollie 1926 Coshocton Regulars
    

    Storch, Harry 1928 returning for 6th year with Coshocton Regulars
    
    1924-8-03 (Zanesville) Standings & commentary
    1925-6-11 (Zanesville) Greys are going on road trip. 
    1925-7-06 Roy Beckwith given $61 with collection after injury - play by play
    1928-4-22 Coshocton regulars two spit-ballers: Elvin Hilty & Leo Carroll
    1928-5-01 Pittsburgh: most stars hereabouts play w/ Eastern Ohio League to pick up a little extra             change over the weekends

    1925-4-19 Zanesville Greys 10, Rochester Clothiers (Central Ohio League) 3. Boxes for league openers of other teams. 
    1925-8-02 Coshocton Tribune. Local box and play by play. Standings - 2nd half must have started. 
        Pic of Percy "Beanie" Heintzelman, Coshocton Regular. 1900+ ATT. 



Lancaster Twilight League
    1922 1st half standings

    Schorr, Ed p, 2g 1915 Cubs 1922 St. Mary's 2 3K ATT

Northeastern Ohio Intercity League
    1930


    1930-6-01 Akron. Boxes, standings. Triple play. 

Ohio Baseball Association
    1929


    1929-4-29 Akron. The two half-season champs of the 1928 Ohio-Pennsylvania League, Yellow Cab and Massillon Agathon, are in the league. Firestone wants it particularly understood that it is not a member of the league but league teams will make up the bulk of its opposition. 
    1929-7-21 Cleveland. Six of the teams of the Ohio Independent Baseball Association will play in the second half. "They have adopted a plan of elimination which will decide the team that is to stack up against the Oaklands of Youngstown, first half champions. Under the agreement, the rivals will remain in the fight until sustaining two defeats. That number serves to remove them from the contending list. By this method the winner will have been declared the early part of September, and then starts a series of five games with the Youngstown champions."
    1929-10-01 Akron. Will be a tournament at Talmadge. "Speed Bosworth's Yellow Cabs, probably the strongest team in action in mid-season, coped with even better outfits, meeting the Homestead Grays, Massillon, Canton and other teams in the Ohio Baseball association, as well as Goodyear and Firestone."

    1929-5-30 Cleveland. Massillon-Canton box.

    1929-8-05 Massillon Agathons 1, Homestead Grays 0. "Jewey" Coen (oh dear) limited the Grays to two hits. Described as "be-spectacled Agathon spit-baller." Called former Coshocton youth. Grimes, Agathon 1b, formerly played shortstop for Coshocton in the Eastern Ohio League. He turned two unassisted double plays. Huff, Agathon 2b, is said to have been signed by the Cleveland Indians. Gene McCann, NYY chief scout, attended the game in order to see the 19-year-old boy wonder Walt Sharkey pitch, but Sharkey had an injured ankle. 

    
Ohio Industrial League
    1949


Ohio State League
    1919


Ohio State League
    1935 Mansfield Tigers
    1936 

    Stover, Dewey  1935 Tiffin

    1936-4-30 Myles Thomas succeeds Dewey Stover as manager of Tiffin

Ohio Valley League
    1922 Dillonvale
    1923 

    1923-6-17 gossip
    1923-6-24 gossip. Mingo now managed by former MLB Jack Lewis

Triangular League
    1918
    1919

    Shields, Alex p 1918 Akron Independents x duels MLB Hovlik for 15 innings


    1919-8-22 "Both teams are loaded to the gills with ex-major and minor league stars and about the only claim they have to semi-pro is, that once the league was such an organization." Manager Lattimore of the Akron Gay-Lords is in Cleveland trying to secure an Indian pitcher to counter Gene Packard. 
    1919-8-26 League is triangular: Akron-Canton-Massillon

    1918-9-08 Cleveland All-Stars 2, Akron Independents 2. 15 innings. 3K ATT. Cleveland All-Stars have players like Jack Graney & Terry "Cotton Top" Turner. Their pitcher was Hovlik, Ed who pitched for WSH 1918-19 but was born in Cleveland. 
    1918-9-29 Cleveland Standard Parts 2, Akron Independents. George Uhle shuts the book on the Independents' season with a three-hitter. 3K ATT. 
    1919-5-18 Akron Gay-Lords 4, Pittsburgh Grenets 0. Karpp 1-hits Grenets.

    1919-6-29 (Akron Beacon Journal) Massillon Agathons 6, Akron Gay-Lords 3. Box.
    1919-8-03 (Akron Beacon Journal) Massillon Agathons 2, Akron Gay-Lords 1. Box. "The largest crowd that ever saw a ball game at Liberty Field swarmed the field, it being taxed to its capacity." Agathons are firmly in first; Gay-Lords are out of the running. 

Western Ohio League
    1948
    1949
    1950 5-29 standings twelve teams - all boxes

    Maisch, Jack of - decent in B 1950 Botkins

    1950-5-04 Not just local scrubs - John Orphal
    game ad

    1950-5-29 action pics 
    1950-9-11 action pic
    1950-9-18 action pic
    

YMCA Industrial League

     Mundy, Bill 1923 McLean Tires

Pros:

Cincinnati

Comello, Joe 1926 Comellos .273 in 1929 CENL

Beckman, Jim-Jimmy 0-2 with CIN, 1927-28. No other pro experience. 1926 Comellos k's 16 in 2-hit shutout. 
Coombs, Jack 1922 Akron Elks lost doubleheader to Rube Foster's Chicago Colored Giants - both games were close. 

  Beckwith, Roy  1922 New Philadelphia American Sweepers play by play 
Foy, Matt c CSTL 1921 Darrtown Team will face George Golde team of Cincinnati - sponsored by Golde of the Cincinnati Reds - have players with pro offers. 
McBride, Horace "Red" VG NYPL 1934 MVP at 25, retired in 1935, re-retired in 1937 1935 Goodyear Regulars 1937 Goodyear Regulars
    1932-8-05 Right arm is dead; has gone back to Canton OH home to rest
    1935-6-19 Williamsport MG says McBride's job in OH pays less than baseball salary - wonders if he is looking towards future. Sees case as part of general trend of players leaving for jobs
    1940-8-02 Hit the most NYPL homers of any former Harrisburg player
    1941-7-23 Lew Krausse calls him the best hitter he saw in nine years in the league
    1942-5-28 In army. 

             1920 Firestone
Breitenstein, Theodore p (I believe it's him - had just been released by STL) 1901 Bellevue Browns 2 teams combined for one error
Emmer, Frank 1936 Mansfield Tigers hitting .304 as of 8-06 - shortstop who once hit 32 HR in AA
        box
Kisinger, Rube p Called Hi-Ki in 1901.1901 Napoleon 250ATT SHO - 300ATT "The attendance at the games in Napoleon is very poor, considering that the town is baseball crazy." It is said that Napoleon men kiss players who make particularly brilliant plays. 
 White, Red p aka Buck MLB 1909-11 1917 Norwood

1918

Knetzer, Elmer 1918 McElroy

Fromholtz, Jake 1919 Bellevue (16K) went w/ Viox to Portsmouth in 1920

Benton, Larry 1919 Norwood went w/ Viox to Portsmouth in 1920
Viox, Jim 1919 Bellevue
  
misc. milb:
 
Morbitzer, Lee 1932 Columbus Franklin Platers 1934 Columbus Buggy Parts 2 delayed game by losing     temper and throwing down ball 1935 Columbus Cardinals 
        mention in DitD  fractured skull in 1924 in car crash. 
Ranz, Phil p pro at 27/28 1901 Chesters
Reese, Harvey p -decent career in high & mid minors beginning at 28. Good hitter.
         1923 North Dayton Merchants w/pic
Robbins, Russell 1919 Piqua played vs. black baseball Dayton Marcos
Sealts, Frank c 1901 Delphos Town not baseball crazy but gives good attendance
Stover, Dewey 1936 Mansfield Tigers hitting .489 as of 8-06 box


https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/Ray-Kolp/
"In 1919, Kolp was an integral part of the Hoover Sweepers baseball team. He and many of his teammates also played in the Akron leagues as the Gaylords. The National Baseball Federation was a loosely knit association of cities and towns from Chicago to Johnstown, Pennsylvania, that sponsored a championship for their top local teams. In 1919 the Sweepers emerged as NBF champions. In the championship game, a 14-inning, 6-5 win over Ambridge, Pennsylvania, Kolp opened the game at shortstop, but earned the victory on the hill in relief."

1922-5-18 Zanesville. Canton Terminals are coming to town. Roster talk. Pics of Seigfried and Whitey Hartle. 
1922-5-19 Zanesville. Joe Agler pic.
1922-8-01 Zanesville. 
    "Another head was chopped from the Grey baseball roster Tuesday morning. This time it was "Heinie" Meade, elongated pitcher who got the axe.
    Meade, who was going good at the start of the season and was very effective seems to have grown careless of late and in this respect has degenerated to such a state that he was of little or no value to the local team.
    Several times in the last few weeks he has "crossed" Manager Reilly on the sort of balls to toss to different batters with disastrous results and Reilly is determined not to lose any more games in that fashion.
    Meade, it is said, is head-strong, and dislikes to take orders and resents any helpful criticism that is given him, so that his departure from the club should result in more harmony.
    He will probably hook on with the Springfield F. O. E. Athletics for the rest of the season."
1922-9-30 Zanesville. "Like a flash of lightning from a clear sky came the announcement Saturday that Harry Myers, in 1920 and 1921 bench manager of the Mark Grey baseball club and during the present season one of the two owners and secretary of the Zanesville Greys, would be in full charge and personally handle the baseball destinies of the Canton Terminal baseball club during the 1923 season. Myers will succeed Joe Agler, who has been the Canton manager since Manager Earl Blackburn jumped that team late in July.
    Myers will direct the Canton club and will have sole authority over the policies of the team as well as being manager. His only assistant will be the club treasurer, who will handle the financial problems and look after the tickets.
    Not only will Myers leave Zanesville for Canton but he will take with him Shortstop "Howdy" Caton, Second Baseman "Midge" Seitz, and First Baseman Karl Weber. He will also retain several players of the present Canton team including Third Baseman John Scott, Outfielder "Whitey" Hartle, and First Baseman Joe Agler. Agler will be used as a regular in the outfield and utility first baseman and infielder.
Plans are already being made by Myers to corral two big league pitchers and several other high class players and the team will be of championship calibre, capable in every respect of battling the Massillon and Hornell, N. Y., teams right to the finish for world's semi- pro honors."
    Harry Myers pic. 
    "Myers was sought for the Canton job and accepted it after several big league players and a scout of the Cleveland Indians had asked for the post and been turned down.
The future of semi-pro ball in Zanesville is right now an uncertain proposition but it is sure that a high class team will be much more difficult to organize next spring now that Myers and the three players, all great favorites here, are to join the Cantonians."

Cincinnati

1922-8-05 Pic of Frederick L. Hoffman, commissioner of local amateur ball. 
    Preview for beginning of first round of final series for class A amateur city championship. Bill Hall, pitcher, is allegedly a former Red. 
1922-8-07 The Seltz brothers, Sam and Frank, once leading local amateurs, are now starring in the minors.
    Scores for first round of final series for class A amateur city championship. The winner will represent Greater Cincinnati in NBF.

Comello team
1926-6-01 Team pic w/o names listed. The team won the 1925 class A championship. 
1926-9-26 Roster of team as well as those who have accompanied team to Philadelphia. Teams participating in tournament listed. 
1926-10-06 Pic of Cincinnati Comello club, Amateur Baseball Federation champs and winner of the Cincinnati Enquirer World Series. 
1926-12-11 Likely that four Comello players will move up to faster company next season. 

Toledo Rail Lights

1920-6-23 (Decatur) Review of very impressive roster. Note: pitcher Jimmy Baxter pitched for Kenosha Nash Motors in 1921. Team has 11-6 record. Has beaten major league teams; examples given.
1921-4-12 Team has disbanded.
https://www.newspapers.com/search/results/?date=1921&keyword=%22toledo+rail+lights%22 Can see where some of the former players went.

Wells, Robert-Bob longtime good milb catcher 1922 pic Was the Rail Lights' MG.
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