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https://krisrutherford.wordpress.com/ Mostly about early Texas Leaguers
    1943
    1946


        Karpel, Herb p 2g 1946 NYY 1943 Student Officer Regiment

        1943-7-22 Waco via FW. Opens tonight in Waco. Teams listed.

        1946-7-18 (Waco) Boxes - good talk, including historical. Ample coverage. *** Tournament standings.
        The Waco Dons were 31-4 during the regular season.
    1946-7-18 (Waco alt) Talk, averages, standings, schedule. Boxes.

State Tournament (TAAF = Texas Amateur Athletic Federation)
   1940
    1943
    1947

     Altizer, Quentin p - pro debut at 27 - good in TL 1940 Dallas Yellow Cabs
    Devaney, Vince p 1940 Worth Clothiers His first loss in the state playoffs in four years
  

    
    1940-9-06 Preview. 
    1940-9-07 Preview. Admission is 25 and 10 cents.
 
    1947-9-01 Preview. Texas Motors needs to win twice today to advance in TAAF. 1500 ATT in yesterday's game. Contested play gave Dallas the game.
      
    1940-8-24 FW. Brief account. Dallas Yellow Cabs 11, Lubbock Dr. Peppers 3. 1st game of three game series.
    1940-9-07 Dallas Yellow Cabs 5, Worth Clothiers 1. G#1 of three-game series. Box. The winner of the serious will face San Antonio for the TAAF championship.
    1947-8-31 Dallas Bob White Sandwich Shop 6, Texas Motors 5. Box. "As has been the case several times in past years, the Dallas city champs fell behind in the early frames but roared back near the finish for victory." Jim Busby relieved for TM, Sal Gliatto pitched for Bob White.

    1940-9-06 Quentin Altizer pic.



State "Colored" Tournament
    1959 Longview Texans
    1960
    1961 Jasper Steers
    1962 Waco Red Legs
    1963 Waco Red Legs
    1964 Fort Worth Carling Giants

    Gray, Amos p - 22.50 ERRA in 1G, 1961 SOPH 1962 Waco Red Legs
    Skeins, Jim 1964 Dallas Rough Riders drafted twice but did not sign
    Triggs, Alex .508SLG in 15G in 1957 SWLG but .861fld% 1960 Jasper
    
    1959-8-14 The Longview Texans, who won the recent colored state tournament held in Waco, have challenged the Waco Dons to a 3-game series. Johnny Johnson, Longview MG, won 5 straight games in the tournament. "The Waco Dons are made up of the leading Central Texas players all of whom have had college or professional experience."
    1960-7-29 Tyler beat Jasper 1-0 on forfeit after Jasper was left with only eight players. Alex Triggs, who had hit two homers, was ejected after protesting too much to an umpire. The score had been tied 6-6. Jasper is eliminated from the tournament. 
    1961-6-25 16 teams lined up - 25 had requested spots. Strong field. 
    1961-7-31 The Jasper Steers won the 17th annual state colored tournament. The final was an exciting back-and-forth game v. Fort Worth. Triggs was the star; he doubled twice and singled twice, driving in three runs. He won the tournament batting title with a mark of .470. 
    The prize money: 1st, Steers. $1630.35; 2nd, Fort Worth, $815.18; 3rd, Longview, $611.38; 4th and 5th, the Red Legs and Towne Service, both of Waco, $326.06. 
    1962-8-06 Almost 2K ATT at yesterday's game to see Red Legs beat Steers 12-8 as Amos Gray k'd 19. 
    1962-8-12 Preview of final game. 
        "With the tourney running well ahead of all previous attendance marks, a record-breaking purse for the winner is almost assured."
    1962-8-13 The Waco Red Legs beat the previously unbeaten Jasper Steers twice straight. They won the final before a full house of 2800. Amos Gray won his 6th game without a defeat; was given a trophy as the tournament's top pitcher. Robert Robertson, a Fort Hood soldier playing for Waco, won the tournament batting title by going 9 for 19. 
    The prize money: 1st, Red Legs. $2373.15; 2nd, Jasper, $1186.58; 3rd, Fort Worth Warriors, $889.93; 4th and 5th, Dallas Rangers and Fort Worth Warriors, $474.63. [typo?] 
    All-tournament team listed. Triggs is in center.
    1963-6-23 Tourney preview. Explains distribution of gate receipts that goes into prizes
    1963-7-03 After 1st game admission is 75 cents for adults, 25 for children. More explanation of prizes - teams get extra $50 for each game they win. 4 out of 5 top teams from last year are returning.
    1963-7-04 1st round schedule. Starts w/ doubleheader tonight.
    1963-7-06 1st round lines
    1963-7-07 Eugene Williams k'd 16 for the Dallas Rough Riders v. the Jasper Steers
    1963-7-14 3rd round lines
    1963-7-15 Amos Gray k'd 19 in a 1st-round game v. the Fort Worth Warriors.
    1963-7-19 3rd round preview. The Belton Colts upset the Steers last week and the Steers bowed out without a win - the first time in tournament history that has happened
    1963-7-22 Amos Gray no-hit the Carrolton Cats, k'ing 12.
    1963-7-26 8 teams remain for the fourth round. Preview. 
    1964-6-21 Teams entered. Tournament has paid out $77,000 over 19 years.
    1964-6-28 Teams competing for entry. 1st prize gets $1500 or 20% of gate, whichever is higher. Last year's winner got $2200.
    1964-7-04 July 4th doubleheader at Katy Park will be 3rd of the tournament. Steers used to be tournament fav - not anymore
    1964-7-05 The Morton Rough Riders of Dallas won before 1800 fans as Eugene Williams k'd 17.
    1964-7-19 T. Scott of the Waco Eagles k'd 21 in a 6-0 shutout of Grand Prairie.
    1964-7-20 Two unbeaten teams, the Steers and Fort Worth Carling Giants, battled before 2K fans. The Giants won 4-3 on a wild pitch in the 11th. The Waco Eagles are the only other team still undefeated going into the 4th round.
    1964-7-27 Carling Giants established themselves as favorites by routing the Waco Eagles 10-1 - now are the only undefeated team. The Steers beat the Grand Prairie-St. Augustine Westees 18-7. 
    1964-8-02 The Palominos beat the Steers 9-3 to gain the finals. 
    1964-8-04 The Austin Palominos will face the Nacogdoches All-Stars; the Palominos lost in finals - it was their second straight year going to finals. 

    1963-8-07 Profile of Amos Gray. Underwent knee operation; the Pirates have a spot for him if his knees are right. Amos won 10 games and hit in the high .300s for the Moore High Lions in 1961; 14 major league teams wanted him. Had trouble with his knees in his time in KCA organization; they sent him to a specialist and evidently didn't like what they saw. That was Aug. 1961. Didn't pitch again until summer of '62 - he won 13 games for the Waco Red Legs and hit about .320. He was their only pitcher. This year he was one of four pitchers but still went 6-1.
    1963-8-09 Gray "credits the Crippled Children's Hospital for helping finance his knee operation last week rather than the Kiwanis club."
    1964-3-10 Gray joined LAD as free agent - has not been informed yet if he will have a minor league roster spot. 
    1965-4-25 Will pitch for Waco Red Legs. [Or Waco Eagles? Ambiguous.]

    1963-8-25 The Old Pro Negro Baseball Players of Abilene will play a benefit game for man injured trying to break up fight - full names. 

    The Jasper Steers went defunct after 1964.
    1996-2-26 Profile of Al Jackson (NYM, STL), who pitched with the Waco Cardinals and Jasper Steers.
    2003-3-23 Profile of C.C. Risenhoover, the white pitcher who spent a summer with Jasper.
    2010-1-20 More detailed profile of Risenhoover

  
Austin Major City League
    1933 final batting The Mike Balagias, city champs, hit .360 as a team
    1934 7-23 batting final batting w/ Swede Lind pic

    Jancik, Robert 1933 Nu Icy - led league with 83 ABs 1934 - led league with 22 runs scored
    Lind, Otto "Swede"  1934 Nu Icy - led league with .431 average

    Falk, Chet "Spot" SLB p 1934 State Hospital
    Moore, Roy PHA p 1920-23 - 1935 Renfro Jumbos 1b - led league with .500 average (22-44)
 
    1935-8-21 The State Hospital Doctors and Nu Icy Bottlers will soon be robbed of players who have to leave Austin for their jobs.

Brazos Trinity League
    1946


    1946-5-19 Grapevine has signed Jay Blomer, but he will not be eligible to pitch until 5-26.

    1946-4-28 Commentary. Teams in Grapevine, Denton, etc. 1K ATT.
  
Dallas Victory League
    1943 Grand Prairie Naval Air Station 16-1

    Altizer, Quentin p - pro debut at 27 - good in TL
        1943 Navy 15-2 for season; undefeated within league; has thrown no-hitter.
    Mort, Roy 1943 Navy made pro debut at 16

 
    1943-6-17 (Dallas via Austin) About half of the league's players are former pros. Quentin Altizer has been receiving offers from big league teams for years but he's always refused them. You don't make enough money unless you play in the majors; Altizer has never wanted to be sent to a farm club.
    ""I want the manager to tell me several days in advance when I'm going to pitch," [Altizer] explained. "Then I can worry about it and when I get on the mound I'm on edge and ready to go. I guess in that way I just get all the worry out of my system beforehand."
    Altizer has a 9-1 record this year. His only loss was in a non-league game vs. Waco Army Flying School in which WSH Sid Hudson opposed him. 
    "Altizer can see all right except for such things as the fingers of a catcher below his mitt. Thus he had to figure out some way of the receiver giving him signals than the customary fingers below mitt system.
    "He thinks too much night work weakened his eyes. One season he worked from 1 a. m. to 1 p. m. went home and slept a couple of hours, then got out to the ball park by 6 p. m. for a night game. "Why, I have gone for a week with no more than 12 hours sleep," he said."
    1943-7-23 Fliers v. Navy preview. Navy roster described.

    1943-7-22 Navy team pic. 

Copper League
    1914



    Blomer, Jay solid in mid-minors starting at 30 in 1946

    1940-6-24 Profile + pic of pitcher Barbola, Mike. (Barbolla) Tells tale of signing. 

    1939-3-19 Rosters with full names.

    1937-7-04 All-star ballot for all-star game between City League and Muny Twilight League all-stars. Pic of Willie Roberts, Texas and Pacific (Muny) pitcher.
    1942-7-10 All-star ballot with full names for all-star game between City League and American League players. Two days left to vote.
    1944-6-14 Two All-Star teams of 16 picked to face each other in War Bond fundraiser; rosters listed, with some full names. Biggest crowd of season in FW expected.

    1940-4-21 Talk, standings, today's schedule. Otis Pillows pic.
    1947-5-18 Talk, standings, today's schedule. Jay Blomer called former sandlot hurler.
    1946-4-08 "Cullen Horton, mound starter for Worth Clothiers Sunday, expects his brother, Claude, back from Korea soon." 
    1946-5-05 Preview - standings for Major City League & Industrial League. Pic of Pete Morales, Motorola (Industrial) shortstop.
    1946-5-19 Preview, standings - pic of Andy Minshew.
    1947-8-29 Benefit game for the ill Bear Tracks Greer will be held between Texas Motors and Reid's Firemen of Boyd. Rosters listed, with full names.

    1946-4-28 No boxes but four pics, incl of Mike Barbola, who's been pitching since 1937.
    1946-5-05 (Evening 2-Star edition) Boxes, standings. 3K ATT in Industrial League game.
    1946-5-05 Lines. Pic of Jay Blomer.
    1946-5-12 Boxes, standings.
    1947-5-25
    1947-7-20 Boxes. Busby won 6-2. Two undefeated teams finally lost.

Fort Worth Amateur Championship
    1935 Dairyland Creamery
    1936
    1944
    1946 Texas Motors
    1947  Texas Motors


    1936-8-15 Semis preview.
    1947-8-23 Final preview. Texas Motors v. Poly Independents preview. Full names listed.

    1935-8-18 Dairyland Creamery wins title, beating Walk-Over Shoe
    1936-8-15 Box.
    1947-8-24 Box for final. Texas Motors 5, Poly 4. Jim Busby, "weakened by the loss of 17 pounds after a recent tonsilectomy," fainted briefly in the 7th inning but remained in the game. Seven of the Texas Motors' players attend TCU, and two of the Poly Independents will enroll this fall.
    TM will play the Dallas champions.



Fort Worth City League (Major City League)
    1919 6-16 standings
    1926
    1936 Brandts
    1942 Worth Clothiers 7-26 standings
    1946
    1947 5-15 stats

    Appleton, Roy p - TL, VG low minors 1919 Chevrolet Motors
    Blomer, Jake "Jay" "Lefty"  p - only became regular pro at 30 1943 Convair Bombs 1946 Convair Bombers
    Hexemer, Leon 1926 according to DitD played for Montgomery Ward. Also Bisbee AZ & KKK.
    Hunnicutt, Wyman 1939
    Short, Asa debut in TL at 27 in 1930 - did okay 

    
    1919-6-15
    1919-6-21 Joe Pate will pitch for Chevrolet if Jake Atz doesn't make him hurry up & come to Dallas
    1919-6-22 Pate did not pitch.

    1939-7-12 10K attended the 3rd annual Star-Telegram all-star amateur game. Pics. Vince DeVaney pitched the full game for the City League all-stars because one of the other pitchers had a sore arm and two others didn't show up. The two teams made five errors apiece. Otis Pillows = submarine right-hander.

    1918-8-03 Restriction on players under contract to NA team lifted. Now players in FW coming from disbanded leagues can play. Chevrolet team admitted in place of Armour - has Appleton and former Houston Buff Lindy Hiett.
    1926-9-26 North Side & South Side all-star teams will battle today. 
    1939-7-12 Pics of three players. Preview of Major City League v. Industrial Commercial All-Star game. 8K fans expected for free game. McCoy, Jim .145 1940 ETXL in Industrial-Commercial line-up. Plenty of full names. Asa Short is I-C substitute catcher. City League AS manager = former pro Wisrock, Buster
     1940-7-29 Fort Worth Clothiers has won 2nd half title with seven straight victories.

    1940-7-29 VG pic of Asa Short, who joined the Fort Worth Clothiers four weeks ago and has been hitting .400+ since. He has been one of FW's leading sandlotters for four years. 
     1942-7-10 Pete Morales, Texasteel 3b. 
        1943 Consolidated Aircraft

Fort Worth Muny Twilight League
    1936 Veihl-Crawford

    Horton, Claude p - turned pro at 26 1936 Veihl-Crawford

Panther City League
    1935 Dairyland Creamery
    1936 Texas Electric Service

    Altizer, Quentin p - pro debut at 27 - good in TL 1944 Dallas Karlen Brothers
    Horton, Claude p - turned pro at 26 1935 Dairyland Creamery


    1944-6-13 Standings. Previews. Les Mallon pic - he may appear for Karlen Brothers.

    1944-6-13 Boxes.

Gulf Coast League (D) 
    1926 BR

        Frazee, Don 1926 Corpus Christi Seahawks not listed on BR
 
    1926-5-03 league will be a developing ground for young players. 
    1926-5-12 San Antonio's amateur clubs are bleeding stars to the Gulf Coast League. 
    1926-8-07 Paul Flynn, Austin HS catcher, is going to try out for Kingsville. 
    1926-8-23 Edinburg replaces Victoria. Edinburg has been playing in Rio Grande Valley League and is currently playing Brownsville for its championship. Both Victoria and Edinburg players will play for Edinburg club. 
    1926-8-24 Judge Landis will investigate league.
    1926-8-25 "The Gulf Coast League has demonstrated that professional baseball does not pay in a small city. Victoria had a similar experience in the Southwest Texas League but it was thought that with a lower salary limit and a more compact circuit that another league team could be maintained but that was not the case and it probably will be many years before Victoria enters such a venture again...
    It is not surprising that league baseball should prove unprofitable in towns like Victoria, Corpus Christi, Laredo, Beeville, Mission, and Kingsville when cities like San Antonio, Waco, Austin, Beaumont, and Galveston have lost money on professional baseball. Not until this year has San Antonio, a city over 200,000 inhabitants, made any money out of its club, and the only reason for its success this year is that it has a winning team." 
    1926-9-02 Edinburg's series with Brownsville came to no decision. 
    1926-9-13 Victoria Rosebuds have been playing good ball since withdrawing from league - have steamrolled the finest semi-pro competition. In the Gulf Coast League championship series Edinburg has won two games and Laredo has won one. Edinburg qualified because it replaced Victoria when Victoria withdrew, and Victoria won the first-half title. 

East Texas Oil Belt League
    1935


    Tuero, Oscar 1935 Magnolia

Hill Country League
    1930
    1931
    1932 final standings
    1933
    1934
    1935
    1936 Fredricksburg Giants final standings
    1937-1940 did not play
    1941
    1942-46 did not play
    1947 Camp Stanley
    1948 Stonewall Pirates
    1949 Fredricksburg Giants 8-31 standings
    1950 did not play (?)
    1951 Fredricksburg Giants final standings
    1952 Boerne White Sox
    finis

    MLB Hugo Klaerner 1932 Fredricksburg etc. 1948 Seipp 
    
    1932 newspapers w/ scores: Kerrville Fredricksburg Llano

    Pictures:


    Hugo Klaerner
    https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/K85L-F81 Alfred was his father

Houston

1923-8-05 Benefit game to be held for Nig Anderson.

Houston city championship
    1922 Humble


    1922-9-26 Humble, Oil League champs, beat Admiration, Community League champs, 2-0 in a pitcher's duel between "Chuck" Taylor and "Lee" Ellis. 3 combined errors. Babe Holt played a great game for Admiration. Fred Ankenman was one of the umpires.

Houston City League
    1911 8-7 standings
    1912
    1913
    1914
    1915
    1916 5-7 standings
    1917 Texas Company Team

    Slataper 1916 ETXL 1916 Union National

    1916-5-07 Houston Boosters traveling for a game

    1911-8-06 game played under protest because Texas Company has Southwest Texas Leaguers in line-up. 

    1917-9-16 Pic of Texas Company Team, pennant winners. Good write-up. Team was 15-3.

Houston Cotton League
    1921


 Houston Commercial League
    1921 

    Zapalac Peden

News-Tribune cup
    1932


    York, Tony Irene native  1932 Elk Antlers

    1932-7-18 Waco. Two boxes, other commentary. 

Rio Grande Valley League
    1926


Rio Grande Valley League
    1947
    1949 became Class D
    1949-9-27 Manuel Otal, founder of Merchants, died in car crash

South Central Texas League
       1940 Luling Sports final team batting
       1941 Schulenberg rosters

    Hampton Conn 1939 Seguin note
    Fred Scheske 1940 Gonzalez note
    Valigura, John 1940 Luling 1941 Hallettsville 

Texas Valley League (D) 
    1927 BR

    
Tri-County League
    1932


    York, Tony Irene native  1932 Irene

    1932-7-24 Waco. Irene just beat Italy 24-7. Roster listed. Carlisle Littlejohn, who is home for a few days, hit a grand slam in his first time at bat. 
    1932-7-26 Waco. Irene inaugurated new park by beating Brandon 10-3. Carlisle Littlejohn homered. 
    1932-9-22 Waco. On 9-25, Irene will play the Waco Drycleaners. Irene will have Willie Burt, WA 1b; Carl and Carlisle Littlejohn; Red Biggers, AZTX; Harvey Ballew, TL; etc.

Valley League
    1925 8-23 standings




Pros:

1943 WAAF lots of pros 

Berly, John

        1921-11-30 Will have to undergo surgery - benefit game will be played for him. Hope to raise $50-60.      search 16K 1921-5-05 Pitched for 36th Infantry in France.
        1927 San Diego 800 ATT for exhibition v. Corpus Christi Seahawks (TXVL)
        1929-3-27 Fed officer reportedly taken for a ride by Mexican rebels 1929 Mexican All-Stars
        1929
Jolley, Jim Lockhart native. Solid WL. 1919 Lockhart 14-1 9-05 W/Jolley unable to pitch Lockhart lost game which is part of series for championship of Southwest Texas 1920 Lockhart (team is being organized) won game Games are profitable as fans are coming from as far as 100 miles away
Meitzen, Bob p 1937 Lumbermen 16 at the time

MLB:  

Kane, Harry 1913 El Paso

King Ranch Cowboys team



1910-5-07 El Paso Herald. From Mexico, staying in the Orndorff hotel is the Cananea team - full names listed. 

(1908-5-11 El Paso Herald. Cananea 14, El Paso 6. Saturday - Cananea forfeited. T. Whaling pitched for Cananea. 
    Boxes.



Victoria Rosebuds

1954-6-20 Outstanding baseball attraction of the year: Rosebuds will play the Plymouth Oilers of Sinton in a benefit game for Pete Bluntzer, local HS football coach stricken with polio.
    NBC Southern Divisional Texas Championship tournament will begin 7-30 at Sinton.
1954-7-15 Plymouth Oilers stats

1954-5-27 Pic of Norwood Lange, tall right hander from Brenham. Won 7 and lost 1 for Sam Houston State, Lone Star Conference champs. 
    He attended tryout for Houston Buffs last summer and was offered contract, but declined to continue his education.
    Lists the 1953 NBC Southern Sectional top teams and all-star team.
1954-5-31 Pic of Tex Aulds, veteran catcher.
1954-6-27 Pic of Jack Trench, 25-year-old Plymouth Oilers manager. Oilers' roster has become much younger since their 1951 national win - youth movement. They draw good crowds - 300 or 400 a game.
1954-7-25 Plymouth Oilers team pic. Trench, Jack

1954-5-27 Opening day for Rosebuds. Gonzales Indians 8, Rosebuds 0.
    Gonzales fan has long speech about how the Rosebuds always put players in weird positions.

Waco Dons
1946-5-09 Waco Dons beat Texas Motors of Fort Worth 17-0. Mike Barbola, Motors' pitcher, was great with Camp Wallace in 1944, both in the Waco state tournament and the Houston Post tournament.

Pics

1939-9-10 Dummy Collins, Seven-Up Bottlers pitcher 

Pedro Barbosa
One-armed first baseman 

1954-5-12 Played well in wins for Monterrey v. Lockhart Eagles and Austin Braves.
1954-5-27 Pic.
1954-5-31 Has box for one game. 800 ATT to see Monterrey Sultans beat Lone Star Athletics and Victoria Pearl Eagles, most of whom came out to see the one-armed Barbosa. Barbosa got a hit in the second game.
1954-6-20 Popular drawing card for Monterrey Sultanes - they will play Victoria Pearl Eagles.
1955-7-03 W/pic. With Monterrey Sultanes. Will play Victoria's Lone Star Athletics, who have 22-9 record. Barbosa has allegedly refused numerous pro offers.
1955-7-08 Is currently hitting .338
1956-7-14 Austin's Century Club, managed by Tom Guedea, will play Monterrey. Has 10-1 record v. semi-pro teams from TX and Mexico.
1956-9-02 With Monterrey All-Stars. Victoria Pearl Eagles have recruited two Big State League pitchers for four-game series with All-Stars.

Ira "Pat" Townsend

1916-5-10 Of Weimar - has gone to pitch for Jourdanton this season.

Corsicana Independents (News dates listed.)

1932-5-06 No errors listed but won 20-2
1932-6-07 2, 9, 1 SHO
1932-6-14S 5, 16, 2
1932-6-28 1, 9, 1
1932-7-05 5 errors, 34 innings, 4 games
1932-7-26S 2, 9, 1
1932-9-02 2, 9, 1
    17 errors in 86 innings over 10 games - an error rate better than any team in the 1932 AZTX. (I looked fairly hard but could only find these games.)
    
    1933-3-28 Meeting today
1933-4-25 0,9,0. Beat Purdon 2-1.
1933-5-09 1,8,1. Lost to Purdon 5-4. 
1933-5-31 5, 9, 1. Lost 5-3 to Frost. Bob Burns lost. preview Bob Burns has been well known locally for 20 years.
1933-6-19 11, 6, 1. Lost 17-16 to Garrett.

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