Washington
Seattle PCL
https://archive.is/HDhag memorabilia collection
https://archive.ph/t8u0H Edo Vanni
1912-5-19 Spokesman-Review. Commentary for WA-ID games.
State tournament
1912-5-19 Spokesman-Review. Commentary for WA-ID games.
State tournament
1929
1937 Tacoma Johnson Paint
1937 Tacoma Johnson Paint
1938
1944 Isaacson Iron Works
1946 Bellingham Bells
1947 Bellingham Bells
1953
1954 Fort Lewis Explorers
1955 Bellingham Bells
1956 Deming's Loggers
Haughland, Oscar 1930 Fife
Isekite, Floyd 1930 Cammarano Bros. (hit hard)
Libke, Bill 1930 Bremerton
Percival, Ed 1930 Telephone Co.
Isekite, Floyd 1930 Cammarano Bros. (hit hard)
Libke, Bill 1930 Bremerton
Percival, Ed 1930 Telephone Co.
1944-7-05 Isaacson Iron Works crowned state champs
1947-8-01 Rosters with full names. Tom Quinn Sr. and Jr. with Mossy Rock. Preview.
Retells story of last year's championship Bellingham team - Dick Plank, lefty just out of HS, won 4 out of their 5 wins in relief. In 48 hours he gave up 1 run in 20.1 innings. Still throwing well today.
1948-7-23 The teams that will compete
1953-8-05 total attendance: 5548. Dick Conover won outstanding pitcher award
1954-8-12 All rosters with full names. Charlie Lau
1954-8-15 Only teams from Western Washington remain. "Little Masumi Ikeda" threw the tournament's second no-hitter.
1954-8-15 Connie Grob, Dick Stuart, Sam Esposito, and Johnny McNamara are with the Fort Lewis Explorers. Has some boxes - much better coverage than other.
Deming has four Zenders in line-up, three of whom are pros.
Lefty Pete Spasoff threw 1st no-hitter of tournament.
1954-8-18 Tournament all-star team named. Masumi Ikeda on team. Box for championship game - Fort Lewis Explorers beat Bellingham Bells 12-0.
Herb Anderson selected as MVP.
1938-7-18 Washington Browns win 10-0 as Percy Lacy k's 17 in 7 1-hit innings
1944-7-05 played three games in one day - Joe Behrman pitched in all three - two CG, one relief assignment
1937-7-26 Series: OR champs v. WA champs. Tacoma Johnson Paint 7, Portland Reliable Shoe 4. Portland now leads 2-1.
1937-7-27 Tacoma Johnson Paint 2, Portland Reliable Shoe 1. Fifth game forced.
1947-8-03 Bellingham Bells win doubleheader over Northern State Hospital Indians before 3.5K ATT. Jack Hjelmaa was on loan from Vancouver - won friends by his play. Unclear whether they'll be able to make the trip to Wichita - will not be able to privately fund trip like last year. Maybe a fundraiser - community drive?
1949-7-31 (Spokane) Lines. MG Levi McCormack won 5-2 game for East Mission Pharmacy with a 3-run HR.
1949-8-01 (Spokane) Lines. The Bells are the only undefeated team left - Spokane Pharmacy will face the Mount Vernon Milkmaids for the right to face them. McCormack won 5-4 game with 2-run single.
1956-8-13 Bellingham. Deming's Loggers 6, Bellingham Bells 4. Dick Zender is Logger manager - four Zenders in lineup.
Deming's Loggers team pic. Pic of Loggers Ron Aikens (outstanding pitcher) and Dick Zender (MVP).
Chet Johnson, veteran pro pitcher, pitched in three games in three days for the Bellingham Bells - he threw 17.2 innings without allowing an earned run overall.
Bayer, Bud 1944 1944 Forth Fighter Wing
Moen, Bob 1954 Bellingham Bells
1954-8-12 Fairchild AFB Fliers; Charlie Lau
1954-8-18 Satalich, Ad; Anderson, Herb;
1936
Bellingham City League
1947
1947-7-31 3 Zenders in Kendall Lumber line-up
Community League (Seattle)
1929
1931 6-29 standings
1927
1937 4-26 standings
Idaho-Washington League
1925 Upstairs Price 6-28 standings
1927
Brandt, Ed 1925 Upstairs Price 1926 Cour d' Alene
1925-6-28 Ed Brandt signed by Upstairs Price
1925-6-30 Earl Dunlap, top lefty of the northwest, declared to be in a class with Ed Brandt.
1925-6-28 Ed Brandt signed by Upstairs Price
1925-6-30 Earl Dunlap, top lefty of the northwest, declared to be in a class with Ed Brandt.
offered a contract by White Sox but unable to come to terms - pitched in Blue Mountain League
this year
1927-4-18 Spud Murphy umpires 1st game since last July, when he was injured by an Ed Brandt fastball.
Inter-Island League
1947
1947-8-14 Boxes, standings, Coupeville averages
1947-8-28 Ditto
Klickitat County League
1936
Northwest League (or Northwestern)
1930 Everett
1931 Bremerton 7-25 standings 6-12 .300+
1932
1933 8-26 standings
1936 8-24 standings
1937
1939
1940
1942 5-26 standings
1947 8-17 standings (close to final)
1948 8-08 standings
1950 8-13 standings
1952
1953 8-05 standings
1956 7-29 standings
Oppelt, Marion p 1936 Shelton Loggers mostly sitting on bench, but doing nicely in Tacoma City League and Aberdeen Sunset League (see sections)
Boutet, Prosser 1948
Bray, Elmer 1940
Burns, George 1937
Hofeditz, Ty 1950 Bellingham
Okeson, Duke 1941 hitting .370 w/ 11 HR in 100 AB
Postelwait, Gabby 1951
Tollefson, Rudy 1936-4-12 New manager of Tacoma Tigers
1947-5-07 Bob Trouse, Bellingham
1947-8-05 Andrew Padovan, Vancouver Luckies MG
1930-5-31 Andy Padovan back to hometown after 4 years in CA
1935-6-04 Herman Pillette throws no-hitter v. Uniteds of Vancouver Senior City League
1930-5-31 Andy Padovan back to hometown after 4 years in CA
1935-6-04 Herman Pillette throws no-hitter v. Uniteds of Vancouver Senior City League
signed to contract just a few hours before gametime
1935-6-07 now w/ Hollywood Stars - signed on strength of no-hitter
1936-4-05 league managers listed - last year w. night ball Yakima had 85K ATT
& $35K in gate receipts w/ schedule - Bremerton has announced that a $36K new park,
equipped for night ball, will be ready by 7-4
1936-4-12 Season about to open. Tacoma Junior Chamber of Commerce hopes to get 3K out to opening day game. Managers listed + roster talk.
Torchy Torrance is league president.
1936-4-14 Olympia has three players who were with the House of David last year - Frank Zoellers, Joe Bosse, and Gil Paulsen. All are former pros.
1936-6-19 AWESOME. misc. notes. Lists former pros.
"The best tossers pick up anywhere [from] a 'fin' to a 'sawbuck' in Northwest League play, with battery men scaled slightly higher."
1936-7-10 Torchy Torrance = league pres.
1937-3-18 8 of 13 players George Burns has on Yakima team are holdovers from last yr's cham tm
1937-4-20 Yakima Indians will battle against insurgents
1937-5-12 two Yakima Indians players deny rumors that they will hop to Lewiston WINT
1937-6-09 George Burns has done so much for the Yakima club - drew 90K fans last year
1937 Yakima Indians seriously good DP combo of Harrington & Ellsworth
1937-8-25 Yakima Indians bought by Yakima Pippins - best players will be retained
1937-9-15 Yakima Indians defeated by Yakima Pippins in exhibition
1937-9-16 fans are buying a car for George Burns
1938-2-10 George Burns to head new league this yr (not sure plans ever came to fruition)
1938-4-14 Yakima Pippins sign Andy Harrington - gives overview of muddled 1937 season,
when Yakima was a house divided.
1938-5-11 Freddy Hutchinson pitched a few times for Yakima, 1937
1939-6-21 Bert Middendorf throws no-hitter - first in league history - 20K
1939-8-18 Middendorf works for telephone company - Leo Taylor building fence out
of broken bats -
1940-4-19 Christy Holevas "colorful Greek"
1941-7-03 Cruisers lose 12-2 to KCM
1941-8-26 profile of Middendorf & stats for season - 176K in 118 innings
1941-8-26 profile of Middendorf & stats for season - 176K in 118 innings
1947-5-07 Babe Barberis is leader of the Seattle Travelers - roster talk, including pros.
1947-7-01 HOD was so impressed by Bell pitcher they offered him $450/month to go east with them, but he refused.
Commentary on Bell pitcher Hal Arnason.
1947-7-08 On Padovan. Yankee scout impressed by Bells. Hofeditz and Cleary Cone have superstitions.
1947-8-17 Mount Vernon Milkmaid's lineup walked out on them - recruit local players to try to
finish schedule - legality of this is unclear as not supposed to add new players after 8-01
Everett Blue Jays' 16-game winning streak snapped
1948-3-23 rumor that Andy Padovan will manage Oak Harbor
1948-7-02 Andy Padovan released by request to rejoin Bellingham
league affiliated with NBC - team leading league as of 7-01 qualifies for state tournament
1948-7-13 Bellingham loses 5-0 to KCM
1949-9-11 Four WINT clubs are up for sale; Bellingham had a bad financial experience in milb 1938-39; minor league ball "is a rich man's hobby." "Maybe a league of lower classification, say a C or D organization, might survive among Washington's smaller baseball cities and maybe it wouldn't. We doubt that C or D baseball would measure up to the semi-pro standards the Girard street faithful have come to expect in recent years."
The Bells will bring home $1587.12 for tying for 4th at the NBC. "Financially, the Wichita invasion was a costly one. the hometown drive for funds was far short of the goal and somebody may be left holding the sack."
1950-8-13 full name: Tyrus Raymond Hofeditz
1952-4-09 Bellingham uniform described
1989-9-26 Middendorf gave up pro career for steady job
1956-7-27 Bellingham. Deming-Burnaby box. Pic of Les Whittles. Chet Johnson has been signed by the Bellingham Bells - he asked for release when assigned to Shreveport TEX.
"Chesty Chet, as some of the scribes tabbed him, was the funnyman of Coast league ball, developing a comedy routine that wowed thousands of fans."
MG:
1930
Mount Vernon chatty Mickey McMahon
1940
Bellingham Andy Padovan
1952
Bellingham Andy Padovan
Northwest Washington League
1924 Everett Seagulls batting (xtra) pitching (xtra)
1925 Everett Seagulls 6-4 batting xtra 6-17x 7-16 batting
Abrams, George SABR bio 1924 Mount Vernon 1925 Sedro-Wooley
1924-4-07 50-60 aspirants for Everett team tried out on Elliott Park on Sunday - largest turnout of the week - including Averill.
1924-6-28 1st half averages. Averill hitting .200 (10 for 50). Tremblay with Bloedel Donovan.
1924-8-22 "The Elks' lineup is composed practically entirely of local talent. and is more or less intact as it started the season. The only addition made to the team during the season was Marker, left fielder, who hails from the Washington State college. Earl Swift started the season at short, as did Billy Payne in center field. When these two were traded to Stanwood, for Zeinke, Elmer Bray, who had been on the bench up until that time went to short, with Marker in left, Zeinke in center, and Averill in right. After it was found necessary to cut down expenses, Zeinke was dropped from the payroll, Averill going to center field and Shay to right.
None of the members of the team are high-salaried men, and should Tealey Raymond fail to cop the second-half pennant, a world of credit is due him for keeping the team up in the race against the other high-priced clubs.
Several prominent business men here, who have been closely connected with the league since its organization, are firm in their opinions that the league must profit by the lessons learned during the past two seasons and stear clear of high salaries in the future. A review of the files reveals that The Herald sounded a warning on this same question last spring before the opening of the season."
1924-9-22 Everett. NVG Everett team pic with full names - Averill pictured - was with Seagulls in Kelso series.
1924-9-23 Bellingham. NVG Everett team pic with full names - Averill pictured - was with Seagulls in Kelso series.
1925-7-16 Batting. Everett hitting .341 - Averill leading league with .403 average for Bellingham Tulips.
1925-7-25 Everett. "ROY GROVER'S 'Everett Seagulls have been declared champions of the Northwest Washington Baseball league by President George Downer, it was learned here Saturday when Fred Schoch, president of the Everett club, talked by Telephone to Downer. Schoch wired Downer Friday morning that the Seagulls claimed the pennant of the league.
The break has been coming for some time because of the poor gate receipts and due to the poor showing made by the Mount Vernon and Sedro-Woolley clubs. The decision to close the schedule followed the canceling of the Mount Vernon-Sedro-Woolley game game billed for Sunday at Mount Vernon."
"Following is a news dispatch carried In the Sedro-Woolley Courier of July 23:
"When the Everett baseball team notified notified Sedro-Woolley two hours before the game scheduled to be played here last Thursday that they would not come, they sounded the death knell of the Northwest Washington baseball league. President Downer was here from Bellingham selling, booster tickets: the local baseball association had made a special drive, the team had won two games and the fans were all 'pepped up.'
"A big crowd was expected, when' a telephone call was received that Everett would not come, because they thought there would not be enough of a crowd to make it worth while. And Sedro-Woolley, on a recent twilight game at Everett, had gotten $3 apiece as their share of the power gate, and had not complained."
Pic of George "Rabbit" Rumsey.
"Yesterday was "Rabbit" Rumsey day at the local ball park, the occasion being the return of the popular right-fielder of last year's Elks' team, now playing with Bloedel Donovan. "Rabbit" is the shortest player in the league, but he has a heavy voice and lots of ginger and is a sure fly catcher. "Rabbit" played winter ball in California and has made several attempts at professional ball. His main weakness is his batting, but he is hard to pitch to and often gets on base."
"Wallie Dalley, Harry Edwards and Joe Hebert are Everett boys on the Anacortes club. Harry Krause and Hazen Paton represent Everett on Raymond's aggregation. It was the first time that clubs in the Northwest Washington league have played on the Everett diamond."
(Johnny Zaepfel played short for Anacortes in the game - don't know why he wasn't mentioned.)
1924-4-20 Everett. Opening day. 1.8K ATT.
1924-4-20 Bellingham. Opening day. All boxes. 1595 - record crowd - here at Bellingham. Averill in Elks line-up.
1924-4-27 1938 ATT at Bellingham - new league record for regular season game. Averill in Elks line-up.
1924-10-05 Tacoma. Sun. Seagulls 3, Fern Hill (Tacoma City League) 1. Seagulls had a number of pros. Averill played center for Seagulls.
1924-10-20 Mon. Everett Seagulls beat the Dodgers 15-3 - the Dodgers' first loss of their barnstorming trip west. The Dodgers were weakened as several of their regular players, including "Stock, Neice, Vance, Mitchell, and Brown," "remained over at Wenatchee pending official inquiry into an altercation in a Wenatchee hotel Sunday evening."
Puget Sound League
1950 Oak Harbor Oaks
Puget Sound Shipyard League
1943
Koehler, Pip 1943
Isekite, Floyd 1943
1943-4-28 all about the managers - all are pros, all except Koehler expected to play regularly
1922 Georgetown Merchants
1942
1951 5-08 standings
MG:
1951
Sedro-Wooley Earl "Little Beaver" Silverthorn PM
1922-8-26 Dates set for inter-city series.
1922-9-23 Seattle preview. "According to the advance sale of tickets the biggest crowd to ever witness a semi-pro contest in Seattle will be out. Three hundred local rooters followed the Merchants to Tacoma last week and will be out strong for the boys to reverse the decision."
1922-9-30 Tacoma. Preview. Good attendance for first two games - biggest expected for game 3.
1922-9-30 Tacoma Daily Ledger. NVG Georgetown Merchants team pic. "The winning team will gain possession of the beautiful Kimball Gun Store trophy for one year."
1922-9-17 Tacoma. Teddy's Tigers 4, Georgetown Merchants (Seattle champs) 3. 16 innings. 1st game of Puget Sound World Series. Teddy's Tigers are managed by Ted Christian. "Curly" Coen had 19 chances at shortstop for the Tigers. Teddy's Tigers are twice champions of Spokane City League.
1922-9-24 Seattle. Line.
1922-9-24 Tacoma. Georgetown 8, Tigers 2.
1922-10-01 Tacoma. Georgetown 5, Tigers 4. "The Tacoma-Seattle semi-pro baseball title and the Kimball trophy will settle in Seattle for the coming year..."
Padovan, Andy 1951
Seattle-Bellingham League
1926
had Japanese team
Seattle War Industries League
Seattle War Industries League
1943
Spokane Amateur League
1908
1908-5-31 S-R. Standings and boxes. S.A.A.C. at 3-2.
Spokane City League
1906 Cubs
1908 Bradley Engineers
1909 Hillyard
1914 8-17 standings
1917 9-10 standings
1922 8-06 batting w/ full names
1923 9-03 standings
1924 6-30 standings League has many of the same teams as the Idaho-Washington League
1936
Churchill, Ralph p 1912 NWES 1909 Hillyard 1912 Holley-Mason
Ferris, George 1900-06 PNAL etc. 1907 Fairbanks-Morse
Grey, Joe 1912 Tacoma 3b 1917 Shea & Davis I think? catcher
Holm, Vic p 25-10 1909 Spokane NWES - born in Sweden 1907 Fairbanks-Morse 1908 U.I.W./Cubs
Holmes, C. "Ducky" 1908
Rubo, Fred (BR lists no first name) p 1907 Fairbanks-Morse
[[[[Obit (1889-1938) 1914 "boy constable"]]]] NOT HIM
1907-2-24 Powell-Sanders club dubbed "Giants" because Manager Rhodes has built a team of "exceptionally big men" such as Thorpe, Irby, Millard, Veley, Ranz, and Henning. An exception is "little Welch, last year's midget hurler."
Roster talk.
Walt McCallum's roster listed - has 15 players signed. Some full names. Has two ex-pros in catcher Whalan and 1905 Tacoma Tiger pitcher Brown, Fred. (1907-4-30 Spokane Brown an impostor - real Fred Brown in CASL and just threw a perfect game.) George Ferris will be made field captain if he signs. "Ferris has a good position with E.J. Cannon, the Northern Pacific division attorney, and will keep it rather than play professional baseball again."
E.J. Barnard, Jones & Dillingham manager, has just eight players signed and is on the hunt for more.
1907-6-10 Veley caught for Davenport; Harrison White Sox have city league battery of Joe Seaton and midget catcher McMahon. Well-played 2-1 game. Seaton pitched better than pro Klinkhammer.
1907-9-30 League president W.F. Connor has announced that on 10-13 Harry Campbell's Cubs, two-time city league champs, will meet an all-star pro team consisting of pros wintering in Spokane, with luminaries such as Tamp Osburn (Osborne), Lou Nordyke, etc.
Next Saturday (10-05) Walter McCallum's Fairbanks-Morse city league team will play the champions of the Tri-city Portland semi-pro league - the first game in a series of six for the semi-pro championship of the northwest.
1907-10-13 Final averages. The city league, which closed this season, had one of the most successful semi-pro seasons the northwest ever had. Attendance was 30,000 - an average of 1,200 for every Sunday and holiday. "One of the closest and prettiest pennant races ever seen in this city kept interest at a fever heat all the time." It ended as a two-team race between Harry Campbell's Cubs and Walter McCallum's Fairbanks-Morse club. The Cubs finished in 1st by half a game.
The pitching was much stronger than last year; the fielding was worse. The decline in fielding may have been due to a lack of spirit in the games played by the four teams out of the pennant race.
The pitching is graced by such hurlers as Mallory, Holm, Seaton, T. Goodwin, and Blue who are "good enough for most professional leagues class B or below."
"The season just passed has justified the flat statement at present that six teams are too many. The stronger players will naturally gravitate to the stronger teams because there is a larger dividend of receipts at the end of the season for those who are fortunate enough to belong to the winning teams. And there are not enough strong players to go around. Some teams must fill up with weaker players.
Plans for 1908.
A four-team league of Spokane teams is not feasible as it would be difficult to keep up interest, and it is certain that, aware of these facts, President W. F. Connor will devise some scheme whereby in another season two or three neighboring cities on electric lines will be taken into an organization similar to the Tri-City league, which has been so successful in Portland.
Coeur d'Alene, Rosalia, Colfax and one or two other nearby teams on trolley lines, which have been enthusiastic supporters of baseball in times past, are suggested as good points to establish in a league with about three Spokane teams."
1907-10-13 Johnny Parsons, last year's 125-pound amateur boxing champion, "professionalized himself by playing baseball for money in the City League this summer."
1908-3-10 S-R. League officers elected on 3-08. "The season will open April 5 and double headers will be played again this season as usual. Saturday afternoons during June, July, and August there will be one game starting at 3:30 or 4 o'clock."
The five franchises that have been already awarded are: Cubs (Harry Campbell), Bradley Engineering and Machinery (Ed Campbell), Union Iron Works (Martin Goodwin), Dodd Clothing (Harry Dunkle), and Chicago Clothing (Howard Slater).
"Hill Brothers and McGowan Brothers also had applications in for a franchise."
1908-4-14 Chronicle. Arthur Longanecker, former NWES and Idaho State League pitcher, should sign soon with a City League team - managers Howard Slater (Walkovers) and Harry Campbell (Cubs) are after him.
1908-6-01 Chronicle. Transactions. Signings of Longanecker, Vic Holm,
Ducky Holmes signed by Morty Goodwin. He played one game for the Spokane Indians last year and was 3 for 4 at the plate and 2 for 2 stealing, and was offered a contract, but refused, saying that baseball was not his business.
1908-6-17 Chronicle. Longanecker leaves the Slaters - will probably sign with an outside team.
1908-9-04 Chronicle. All-star team picked by Chronicle. Danny McCarter pic.
"There will be but four teams in the City league next year. Such is the statement of Billy Connor, president of the league. Mr. Connor says he believes that a more successful season can be had by such a move and that he will use every means in his power to bring about such a result. With but four teams in the league there will be some lively bidding for franchises, as all the teams now in the league want to remain in and in addition to this there are two business houses that are not in that will bid for places. The Chicago Clothing company, through Sol Mayer, and Jones & Dillingham have announced their intentions of trying for places in the league.
With but four teams in the league it would mean that there would be better competition, as every team would play every Sunday and in this way eliminate the necessity of one team having to go out of town on Sunday to play a game. It will also mean more money to be divided among less players, which will amount to a tidy sum in a season's playing. One less team would also mean a better class of ball, as the managers would have more players to pick from and so make their teams stronger and faster.
With four teams picked from the present five there would be no tailenders, as the teams would be so much evener that there would be a likelihood of all the teams being close enough together to make the race a hard one to pick for any fan."
1908-10-12 S-R. Managers Eddie Quinn (Spokane Indians) and Ed Kennedy (Bradleys) will play a series of games this week.
1909-3-09 S-R. VG. Preview of season. Teams, managers, etc.
1910-8-03 Chronicle. Ralph Churchill, one of best City League pitchers, released at his own request by the Gold Coin team because he wants to play with a team where he can pitch every week. Would not be able to pitch every game for Gold Coin anymore because Chris Steitz just returned from Colville, where he won 17 straight games.
1910-8-17 Chronicle. Ralph Churchill has signed with Manager Dyer's Dodd team and will be worked as soon as the ten-day waiting period expires.
1911-4-07 S-R. The Keio University team may play the Hover-Schiffner team of the City League on 5-01 - Hover-Schiffner manager = Harry B. Kingsbury.
Kingsbury has signed the left-handed outfielder Barry, who played with Varney & Somers (City League) three years ago and has been playing semi-pro ball in Alaska since.
1912-3-07 Press. Danny McCarter, new Holley-Mason manager, signed Tom Hedican, Gonzaga coach.
1912-5-14 Merton "Mert" Veley will manage Holley-Mason for the rest of the season, replacing Danny McCarter, who has left Spokane for an indefinite period. He will be field captain as well as manager, and will catch as well. The Holley-Mason team has many players from the 1911 C.M. Payne team.
1912-8-24 Ralph Churchill, local high schooler and City Leaguer, "is the sixth City league pitcher to break into the Northwestern League or higher company and make good."
Harry Campbell, who now manages S.A.A.C., signed Churchill for his championship Hillyard team in 1909 when Churchill was but 17. He was the league's leading pitcher. Churchill pitched for Coeur d'Alene as well as Holley-Mason this year.
Other City Leaguer pitchers to make good: Vic Holm and his jump ball, Vean Gregg, Joe Seaton, Harry Rush, and Lee Samuels.
"A few of the loyal City league fans are wondering if Wellington Navarre, the Holley-Mason star flinger, secured from Newport, will follow the ranks of these six pitchers. The little fellow has speed and an assortment of curves this year that he did not have a couple of years ago.
"Sailor" Roberts, catcher for the Bradleys in 1908, broke into the Northwestern league in the middle of the season. He is now catching for Missoula. Frank Daschbach, left fielder of the Bradleys, is now playing on the New Haven team in the Connecticut league. Earl Sheely, last year's third sacker for the Groffs, started this year with Spokane and was later released. He was signed at once by Bob Brown and played short for the Beavers until he broke his leg."
City League dope.
1912-10-13 Final pitching etc. Wellington Navarre was top pitcher: 8-1 record and k'd a batter an inning.
1914-2-20 S-R. Profile of Frank Kelly (Ed Kelly), signed by the Red Sox. Danny McCarter caught him for several years here.
Umpire Ralph Dodd received a telegram from the national commission saying that pitchers can't use anything but saliva on the ball - no rosin balls.
1923-1-03 Seattle offers $5K for Ed Brandt
1907-6-07 Standings, box
1907-6-13 S-R.
1907-9-08 Chronicle. Boxes.
1907-9-22 Near-final standings. Cubs - Fairbanks-Morse end schedule with fight - FM outplays Cubs but to no avail - finish 2nd.
"The clash attracted a throng such as has not seen a game at Natatorium park since the days of the old Pacific National league when it was in its prime. The big grandstand was jammed to the point of suffocation, the aisles were crowded and standing room was at a premium. The bleachers were almost entirely filled and there was an overflow on the outfield side lines. It was estimated that fully 3000 people saw the two games, which practically close the City league season, the battle for third place remaining to be decided next Sunday."
Mallory, Cubs pitcher, is called "Wizard" for his mastery. He was "wild as a hawk yesterday." "Holm was as steady as a clock, never lost his head nor control for a moment and was really never in trouble. He had a better assortment of curves than Mallory, although the latter has a fast, high-break ball that is a wonder."
McCallum told his players to wait Mallory out - leave outside the bad ones and make him work. This strategy won the game for F-M.
The Varneys made 16 errors in a 16-2 loss to Powell-Sanders. (6 innings) Seaton was on the losing end.
1907-9-29 Final game.
1908-5-31 S-R.
1911-3-26 S-R. Opening game at Natatorium Park. No box.
"Teddy Roosevelt worked the last three innings and shot them over the pan with regularity. He has evidently lost the wildness which kept him out of the big brush the past few seasons."
1911-6-18 S-R. Standings, boxes. 1500 ATT. "The Spokane city league "pot," consisting of moneys accruing from holdouts of the quarterly "splits," together with a bonus offered by the Washington Water Power company to the "Nat" leaguers, will be split three ways at the close of the season- straight, place and show, as racing parlance would have it- with the fourth club in the "also ran" division. Until yesterday the S. A. A. C. tossers had a strangle hold on the "also ran" column, but now they are within one game of dividing the "show" coin with the Hover-Schiffners, a 12-1 victory over the real estaters giving the double triangle lads relief from the exacting hoodoo and also a chance to climb toward the top of the ladder."
1912-4-07 Spokesman-Review. Boxes. Thurkettle homered.
1912-5-22 Press. No boxes but commentary.
1912-5-19 All boxes. Teams have already played eight games.
1912-9-01 One of greatest games ever seen in league played yesterday between the Telephones and the Holley-Masons - a pitcher's duel between "Smiling Lefty" Jones of the "Hello" team and Wellington Navarre, the Newport star.
"The beauty of the game was marred when Captain Veley of the Holley-Mason team refused the Telephones a runner for Gray. Kenney said something in an undertone to Veley, which started trouble. Veley made a pass and Kenney hit back, cracking the mask with his bare hand, nearly breaking it. Umpire Stingle interfered."
"The City league rule is that all balls hit close to the foul line are to be decided by the catcher." To the crowd's disgust, Veley called what looked like a double foul.
The game ended 2-2 after 11 innings.
Final batting: Thurkettle, rotund S.A.A.C. shortstop led league with .470 average. Hit in 23 of 24 games. 2nd place Magee hit 7 homers in 30 games.
1917-9-02 S-R. Boxes, standings. Pat Walsh, Shea & Davis pitcher, won both seven-inning games of the doubleheader. Danny McCarter has been appointed permanent manager of the Martins.
1917-9-09 S-R. Boxes, standings. Jimmy Condon, Martins pitcher, = Gonzaga southpaw. McCarter started game at 2b but caught after regular catcher was injured - had not caught in a long time.
"For the first time this season Clink took plenty of time before delivering the ball and he was much more effective than ever before. Heretofore Clink has always been a rapid fire pitcher."
1907-10-05 L.S. Frakes 12, Fairbanks-Morse 5. F-M, City League runners-up, totally outplayed. "The attendance was not very large." "The Portland nine is one of the fastest semi-professional nines that has been seen here. It has lots of ginger, and some star players."
Victor Holm, "probably the best semi-professional twirler in this section of the country," will pitch for F-M tomorrow.
1907-10-06 Spokane S-R. Portland L.S. Frakes 4, Spokane Cubs 3. "Wizard" Mallory k'd 17 in defeat. Fairbanks-Morse 4, Frakes 2.
L.S. Frakes = Portland Tri-City League champs. Double-header for the semi-pro championship of the northwest. Capacity crowd.
Lou Nordyke appeared for Fairbanks-Morse. Pro Schimpff pitched for the Frakes.
1907-10-12 Oregon Daily Journal. Fairbanks-Morse 8, Brainard Cubs 1. "A listless, foggy game in which 200 fans often forgot to root..."
"Seaton for the Spokane bunch had speed to burn and proceeded to wallop them over the plate until he mowed down 12 stickers."
The teams competed in a throwing & hitting contest before the game. Kruger of the Cubs won first by throwing 322' 6", and Slater of F-M won by a hit of 331' 6".
The Frakes did not play, as they were in disagreement with league management. "Secretary Smith of the league says that the Frakes wanted all the receipts, including the grandstand, for playing, while the members of the Frakes claim they asked for the grandstand and five per cent of the gate receipts, which they say was refused, claiming the league wanted the grandstand and ten per cent of the gate receipts."
1907-10-13 Oregon Daily Journal. Lines. Fairbanks-Morse 5, Brainard Cubs 4. Brainard Cubs 4, Fairbanks-Morse 2. Umpire Burnside was attacked by Slater, the Spokane 1b - and struck him on the head with his mask.
Secretary Smith of the Tri-City league claims the northwest amateur championship is still in doubt. I don't quite follow his reasoning.
preview "Judge O.J. Bandelin was the last of George Ferris' all-star aggregation of old-leaguers to arrive in the city for the game with the Cubs..."
1907-10-13 Cubs 3, All-Stars 2.
"The thing was done in the presence of some 2500 bugs, who passed through various stages of amusement, wonder, and enthusiasm."
The Cubs are "semi-professionals on a technicality" but "genuine amateurs in spirit."
The All-Stars could not hit the 21-year-old Chester Blue, who had a 12-1 record in the City league this summer. "Yesterday he had a lot of speed, a splendid break to his curves and magnificent control." Blue batted 6th.
Pro Judge Bandelin underwent joshing.
The receipts were $425, which divvied up gave about $20 to each player.
The two teams agreed to play for the receipts next Sunday.
1907-10-20 S-R. All-Stars 11, Cubs 6. Last game of the year for Spokane.
"One of the largest crowds Natatorium Park ever saw, and probably the biggest crowd that ever saw an exhibition game in the city, witnessed the spectacle."
Ferris umpired for the City League this summer.
"Counting the post-season games over $8000 was handled at the box office of Natatorium park during the last summer."
"The gross receipts for yesterday's game were $413, which, after expenses were deducted, left about $200 for each team or about $20 for each player participating. The agreement to play for all the gate receipts was dropped by common consent of both teams."
1908-10-11 S-R. Spokane Indians 12, Slaters 2. The Slaters failed to put up their $500 side-bet as promised. Indians mad. 2500 ATT.
"The Indians played with a savage determination all the way to silence forever the argument some fans are foolish enough to advance that the City League here, good as it is, is in a class with the professionals."
The Slaters were reinforced, too.
1936-5-25 Chronicle. Good pic of Thornton Murphy, Lewis & Clark 1b.
Spokane Tri-City League
1915
Churchill, Ralph p 1912 NWES 1915 Hillyard "March Hare"
1915-3-23 S-R. League talk; teams, officials, etc. Danny McCarter will probably captain the Coeur d'Alene team. He led the champion C.M. Payne team of 1912.
1915-5-15 Chronicle. Hillyard pitchers Ralph Churchill and Claude Smith placed on suspended list by manager Mert Veley for not appearing at games.
1915-6-07 Chronicle. Hillyard pitchers Ralph Churchill and Claude Smith released by manager Gerdes. Pitcher Johnny Daschbach released by manager Protto - signed with Hillyard.
1915-4-11 S-R. All boxes. "First season under new name." Downtown automobile parade for opening day. Groff sign on outfield fence.
1915-4-11 Press. Commentary.
Spokane Independent Twilight League
1948 Levitch Jewelers final batting 2nd half final standings/team stats
1949 Tombari East Mission Pharmacy 1949-9-17 injured in car accident
pic the Sedan was a fan gift
1948-5-23 Rosters w/ full names and 1st half title
1948-6-24 Levitch Jewelers will face Oakland Beavers, Negro Winter League team. Pic of J.D. Burleson, the Beavers' catcher.
1948-7-08 Levitch Jewelers won 1st half title.
1948-8-27 The Levitch Jewelers beat Chester, Inter-State League champs, 10-0
1948-9-17 Spokane Indians beat Jewelers 7-4 in exhibition game to conclude their season.
1949-5-29 Levitch has a veteran squad - Pharmacy club made up of younger players
1949-6-05 Standings and top batting
1949-6-24 3-year anniversary of the bus accident. Of the six who were injured, only two are still in baseball - McCormack one of them.
1949-7-03 Both the Jewelers and Pharmacy have been doing well on out-of-town trips; the Jewelers split with the Bonner Lumberjacks while the Druggists swept them both games; in their second game Levi McCormack won the game on the mound and hit a homer.
1948-7-11 Oscar Levitch Jewelers win North Idaho non-pro championship; Les Taylor named batting champ (8 for 18)
1948-7-25 Levitch Jewelers swept Bonner Lumberjacks - ATT of 1K and 1.2K in 1050 -seat park.
1949-8-15 Two last boxes; schedule of 112 games completed. Levitch Jewelers again won both halves - their record was 19-3-1.
1948-7-08 Dick Wouters, Levitch Jeweler.
1948-8-15 Levitch Jewelers team pic. Lost just one game - won both halves of season for undisputed mastery. Jewelers were 11-0 with .313 avg. and .962 fielding pct. in 2nd half.
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Spokane Indoor City League
Spokane Indoor City League
1907-08
1907-10-31 Chronicle. Frank Smith will sponsor team of pros.
"Mr. Smith is just a little afraid that the big fellows would not be able to class with the smaller players from the city league. When it comes to the indoor game, the older men would find that it required a great deal of agility, and Smith says he doesn't want to put a team of pros in the league and have them made a show of."
1907-11-04 Chronicle. Hill Brothers Walkover team have applied for a franchise. "This team has been organized by Louis Thiel and is composed of a number of the professional baseball players who are wintering in Spokane. The team will be backed by Hill Brothers' Shoe Store, which has planned to furnish a set of attractive suits for the players in case the league accepts the proposition."
The original plan was to have Smith's Dope sponsor the team, but Frank Smith feared the City League boys, being young and fresh, would pull away from the pros. [????]
Louis Nordyke has been hired to manage the team. It will contain such players as the three Killilays, "Bulb" Irby, Frank Suess, Bill Carney, Reniker, etc.
1907-11-06 Spokesman-Review. Billy O'Connor is president of the City League, which plans an indoor winter schedule of games to be played at the Company H Armory. There will probably be five teams: Harry Campbell's Cubs, Walter McCallum's team, which will play as the Dodd Clothiers, a team of pro players called the Walkovers, sponsored by Jake Hill's shoe store, and two other teams to be managed by E.J. Barnard and Marty Goodwin. Beginning of season is imminent.
1907-12-05 Walkovers VG team pic. The armory is at Second avenue and McClellan street.
1907-12-18 Spokesman-Review. Thiel signs two new players for his Walkovers: 2b Frank Ripley and of-sub pitcher R.H. Morrell. "Ripley is an old Chicago City leaguer, of a lot of experience at the indoor game..." Morrell pitched for Fairbanks-Morse in the City League last summer. He also has experience in the middle west.
1907-12-31 S-R. Louis Thiel will be on a six or seven-week long business trip, practically until the end of the season. Marty Killilay has been appointed temporary manager and permanent captain of the Walkovers in his stead.
"Killilay has been playing a brilliant game at third base, hitting the ball like a field, and is easily the star of the league at his position, so that in the new leader the Walkovers have a man who can execute orders as well as give them."
The Walkovers hope to stop the Iron Works' winning streak.
1908-1-03 Chronicle. Account may be biased.
The Killilays have abdicated "at the urgent solicitation of Manager Thiele, who has just appointed Ed Kennedy to the position of captain."
"The Killilays came here from the east a few months ago and secured practically the control of the Hill Bros.' Walkover team and made their authority apparent by releasing a number of the boys who had been playing in the regular City league here. This policy was objected to and it was thought best to make this change in order to get the team on the best working basis.
Kennedy should be a strong man for the position, as he has been connected with the City league for the past two seasons and has always played a strong game himself, as well as having shown considerable executive ability. He will have a strong team to start out with and should make a good showing.
The Hill Bros.' team has also put in an application for a team in the regular outdoor City league and it is stated that Kennedy will be asked to manage this team as well. The Hill Bros.' Walkover team is at present largely composed of professionals who will not be available when the outdoor season opens in the spring and there is a rumor which has been gaining considerable ground that the Cubs, Harry Campbell's team, will be taken over intact by the Hill Bros. In case this should come to pass it is likely that Harry Campbell will continue to manage the team.
At present Crist and Ripley are the only two professionals left on the team, now that the Killilays have been disposed of. Mr. Thiel, who has managed the team heretofore this season, has been obliged to leave the city and it is on this account that the change has been made in the team. When Mr. Thiel returns he will resume the management of the team and Kennedy will continue as captain of the team."
1908-1-04 S-R. Thiel has appointed Ed Kennedy as acting manager and captain of the Walkovers, superseding his appointment a few days ago of Marty Killilay.
"It has resulted in the practical desertion of the Walkover team by all the professional baseball players, Carney, Ferris, Nordyke, Reniker, Roosevelt and the three Killilays, who were picked by Thiel at the opening of the season for the indoor team. Thiel chose a team of all-star professionals for their advertising value largely, but proved unable to get along with them to the players' satisfaction and one by one they dropped out.
Kennedy now takes control of a team almost entirely different from the one that started the season and will have to fill out the vacancies left by the withdrawal of the professionals."
1908-7-24 Louis Thiel = sportswriter.
1910-2-11 Press. Louis F. Thiel = salesman. His wife files for divorce on charges that he is a 'sport,' meaning he is out late hours and spends freely. "She charges that he earns $150 per month..."
1911-3-17 Spokesman-Review. Louis F. Thiel, who held the SLC franchise, was dropped from Union Association as crooked dealings emerge.
"On a floor nearly as smooth as glass, and about as easy to play on as a sheet of ice, the Dodd Clothing company's team in the indoor baseball league swamped the Holley-Mason team in the first game of the indoor schedule yesterday, piling up 44 runs as against 21 for the hardware men. The big score was largely due to the slippery condition of the state armory floor, which made fielding difficult and good pitching almost impossible.
The game was an interesting one to watch, in spite of the one-sidedness, and the 150 or so spectators who gathered in the balcony that surrounds the big armory floor were about as enthusiastic a crowd as players or management would desire. There was little regulation baseball "rooting," the applause mostly taking the form of handclapping, while now and then a cheer would. resound from the arched armory roof. The audience was kept busy watching for unexpected developments in shape of varied acrobatic stunts performed by the players in running or fielding.
The two pitchers were the worst sufferers from the slippery floor conditions, being unable to deliver the ball with any accuracy or to maintain a standing position after having thrown the ball. The outfielders, also, had a hard time of it, as they were forced to cover a wide territory on the run, and this run often developed into an undignified slide or tumble. The base runners had considerable trouble turning sharp corners, although sliding for bases was easily practiced and often executed in a spectacular manner. It was not unusual to see a runnner slide half the distance between bases, often carrying the bag with him in a fond embrace for some distance after having reached the base."
I guess the slipperiness explains the large number of walks.
"Quimby shot the ball over so fast and with such puzzling shoots to his delivery that the professionals could do nothing with him." He fanned nine of the eighteen men that faced him.
"Something over 200 persons lined the lower row of the gallery all around, a much larger crowd than saw the opening game Sunday and went away happy. The game proved its worth in every respect and the chances are that it will grow in popularity rapidly from now on. The game is much faster than outdoor baseball and calls for just as much skill and cleverness and infinitely more speed."
1907-12-15 Chronicle. Walkovers 18, Cubs 15. The Cubs outhit the Walkovers 27-15 but lost. 180 ATT. S-R "The crowd was all for the Cubs, and rooted in regular bleacher fashion when their favorites had runs of good luck." Box + standings.
1907-12-22 S-R. Walkovers 19, Holley-Masons 18. The fielding was phenomenal, with but three errors apiece. Marty Killilay was 5 for 7 and Ferris scored five runs.
"For real, heart-breaking, stand-up- on-your-feet-and-holler excitement there have been few outdoor baseball games seen here that would have it on the indoor game at the armory yesterday. There was a big relief or nervous tension when the last Holly-Mason man was out in the ninth, giving the Hill Walkovers the game, 19 to 18, With the Hills one ahead in the last half of the ninth, two Holley-Mason men out and two on bases, and 50 or so Holley-Mason rooters jangling cow- bells, tooting hoarse horns and yelling themselves into gradual speechlessness, the big hall has seen no more uproarious scene than that which terminated the game."
1907-12-25 Spokesman-Review. Walkovers 15, Dodd Clothiers 14. 50 ATT. Marty and Eddie Killilay in the Walkovers' line-up. They made the team's only two errors. A poor crowd for a great game.
1907-12-26 Spokesman-Review. Dodd Clothiers 23, Walkovers 21. Pro Joe Seaton - city leaguer Daschbach. J. (Jack?) Killilay added to Walkovers line-up. 17 combined errors.
1908-1-02 S-R. United Iron Works 16, Walkovers 13. Quimby pitched the full game for U.I.W. 26 combined walks. Time of game 1:15. Standings. "There was a crowd nearly double the usual week night stand, including a good many players from other teams in the league, who bunched on one side of the house and rooted vociferously for the Walkovers." U.I.W. is undefeated, with 4-0 record.
Beginning this Sunday there will be doubleheaders played every Sunday afternoon beginning at 2:30. The teams which had been scheduled for Thursday will play in the first Sunday game.
1908-1-05 Preview. "Quimby, who has won most of the Iron Works' games by his bewildering delivery..."
Tacoma City League
1916 7-10 standings
1922 Teddy's Tigers 8-26 standings
1924 8-30 standings
1926 8-13 standings
1927
1930 Cammarano Brothers 2nd half standings
1933
1934
1935 Anders Florist
1937 7-27 standings
1949
1934 Pacific Match 4K ATT
Pierotti, Len Born in Italy. 23rd Street
1924-8-01 Union Oil Aristos withdrew from league because of Jimmy Claxton - return with promise
that the league constitution will not be violated any longer by the use of blacks
1924-8-30 Claxton pitching for Longshoremen like nothing happened
1927-5-03 Len Pierotti shot himself in his Black Diamond WA home after he failed to make Hollywood team. Played for 23rd Street in Tacoma City League and with Tacoma in the Timber League last year. "He was brought [to Tacoma] by I.S. Couch and became a sensation."
1930-4-20 Season preview. 12 man roster limit.
1936-4-12 Season will open on 4-27. The franchise of Anders Florist, 1935 champions, has been taken over by Beacon Oil. Oilers will be managed by Bill Libke, who piloted Florists to title. The Johnson Paint Company team has taken over the Publix Garage franchise. Managers listed.
Each club is limited to 16 players and two rookies, "the latter to be in attendance at Lincoln, Stadium, or Bellarmine High schools when the season opens." Five games will be played per week. Admission will be raised to ten cents.
1936-6-23 Love of the game drives league, not money. Players usually get about half a dollar per game.
"The best tossers pick up anywhere [from] a 'fin' to a 'sawbuck' in Northwest League play, with battery men scaled slightly higher." Semi-pro players who can't make the NW grade can forget about making money by their ball.
Good league gossip.
1936-7-24 Good stuff
1922-7-25 Box, standings.
1922-8-25 Standings, box.
1927-5-02 Ledger. Box, standings.
1922-8-26 Dates set for inter-city series.
1922-9-23 Seattle preview. "According to the advance sale of tickets the biggest crowd to ever witness a semi-pro contest in Seattle will be out. Three hundred local rooters followed the Merchants to Tacoma last week and will be out strong for the boys to reverse the decision."
1922-9-30 Tacoma. Preview. Good attendance for first two games - biggest expected for game 3.
1922-9-30 Tacoma Daily Ledger. NVG Georgetown Merchants team pic. "The winning team will gain possession of the beautiful Kimball Gun Store trophy for one year."
1922-9-17 Tacoma. Teddy's Tigers 4, Georgetown Merchants (Seattle champs) 3. 16 innings. 1st game of Puget Sound World Series. Teddy's Tigers are managed by Ted Christian. "Curly" Coen had 19 chances at shortstop for the Tigers. Teddy's Tigers are twice champions of Spokane City League.
1922-9-24 Seattle. Line.
1922-9-24 Tacoma. Georgetown 8, Tigers 2.
1922-10-01 Tacoma. Georgetown 5, Tigers 4. "The Tacoma-Seattle semi-pro baseball title and the Kimball trophy will settle in Seattle for the coming year..."
1949-4-30 pic of Kay Street battery - Pete Sabutis & Hal Schimling
& City League skippers - George Wise & Gus Paine
Tacoma Industrial League
1920
1931 final averages - vg
Haughland, Oscar 1931 Teamsters (championship series)
1931-8-27 Profile of "Handy Andy" Nelson, 48-year-old pitcher still going strong. He survives with wile. Has been pitching in Tacoma for 28 years. Pro career possibly shortened by gunshot wound. Just won game in championship series
1920-7-04 Daily Ledger. Box, standings. Johnny Larson got a freak homer in the 4th when the ball lost itself in a stack of outfield grass. Al Libke at catcher for Northern Pacific Railroaders.
Tacoma News Commercial League
1910 5-21 standings
Timber League (called Southwest Timber League in 1933
1926 8-13 standings
1928 8-20 standings
1929 Grays Harbor Twins
1931 Kelso Timber Wolves
1934
1938
1954
Balsano, Lou 1926 Tacoma 1929 Tacoma 1930 Tacoma Tigers
Abrams, George see SABR bio1926-1929 Everett Seagulls
Flagstead, Ira 1933 Olympia 1934 Olympia also MG. Note from Missoula.
w/commented 1st half stats
1931-8-19 As the schedule seems to be breaking up, Kelso will probably represent Timber League for state championship playoffs
1932-9-12 Clay Brown, Longview 1st baseman, may be declared ineligible - if so, games will be forfeited to Tacoma who will then be second half champs
1936-7-21 "Lyle Knapp, Chehalis fireman, is staging a comeback with the Raymond Seagulls of the Timber League. Knapp is one of the team's top hitters, just as he was with the Chehalis Moose a decade ago."
1954-4-10 (non-league) McChord Defenders, including Ikeda, combine for no-hitter. Three pitchers go three innings each.
1954-8-12 Masumi Ikeda with McChord Defenders.
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Valley League
1916 7-10 standings
Vancouver Senior League
1943
1944 6-19 standings
Clarkson, Reg good - not sure why his career was so short 1944 Arrows
1943-9-12 Torgeson has stolen home in 3 straight games Bells were 20-1-2 at home
1944-6-19 Daniel Holden has complained that the left field fence at Girard street is too close
Padovan, Andy 1944
1944
Bellingham MG: Joe Martin
Play-offs:
1945-9-11 Bellingham 9, A&Q 6
Finals
1945-9-12 Norvans 9, Bellingham 3.
1945-9-14 Norvans 9, Bellingham 0. In play-offs, Ray Orteig has 4 W, 64K, 38.1 IP, 9R, 24H - much better than Joe Faria
1945-9-11 Bellingham 9, A&Q 6
Finals
1945-9-12 Norvans 9, Bellingham 3.
1945-9-14 Norvans 9, Bellingham 0. In play-offs, Ray Orteig has 4 W, 64K, 38.1 IP, 9R, 24H - much better than Joe Faria
1945-9-16 Norvans 8, Bellingham 3. 1500ATT
Pics:
1945-9-15 Casey Jones & Ray Orteig
1945-9-15 Casey Jones & Ray Orteig
Western Washington League
1941 2nd half standings
Claxton, Jimmy 1941 Casinos loses 0-10
1941-5-31 "Floyd Isekite, leading southpaw in the Western International last season, was whacked out of the box by the Casinos in the sixth inning of his first start in the Western Washington circuit, a loop supposedly several notches below the W.I. Pitching for the opposite colored boys was Jimmy Claxton, a veteran of 49 years.
Washington State League
1910
1910-7-21 after 48 days in jail fined $150 & released left to join NWL Tacoma
Pros:
Pros:
1908-4-12 Garfield (Grammar School League) team pic. Seems to have been much taller than the other boys on team.
1908-7-07 Pitcher for Argonauts, champions of Spokane Intermediate League. Beat Vancouver HS team 17-6. Described as 14 years old.
1914-6-13 Married. "Is now in business with his father, a joint partner in the Central Machine shop."
1941 Lake Washington Shipyards 1942 Universal Printers Seattle City League
1943 Everett Puget Sound Shipyards
Libke, Bill 1922 Fern Hill ss - Al Libke at catcher - Ed Keisel w/ Northern Pacific in 1920 Industrial League
Longanecker, George p p 1909 Wenatchee local box 2 1909-11-23 Wenatchee. Formerly manager of Wenatchee Theater - is going to NY to visit his parents. 1910-4-01 G.A.Longanecker - considered one of the strongest semi-pro pitchers in the Inland Empire but pitched little ball last year. Has signed as Twilight league ump. Managed the local theater for a year. 1910-6-01 Wenatchee. A.G. Longanecker, formerly of this city, is one of the umpires in the Twilight league in British Columbia..." Made controversial call re fact that players must be wearing uniform to get into game - called for police protection. Was about someone pinch-hitting for Wheezer Dell. 1910-11-03 Wenatchee. Listed as one of umpires in league next year.
1910-12-05 Wenatchee. "George Longanecker, Wenatchee lad who will do umpire duty in the Northwestern League next season, was nearly engulfed in a race riot in San Diego, California, the other day while umpiring a game between the Leland Giants, colored, of Chicago, and the San Diegans. The dusky lads balked at one of George's decisions and when they refused to stand up to the plate Longanecker called four balls on four straight batters and forced in the winning run. The Lelands thereupon quit the field."
1912-11-01 Chronicle. "Harry Ostdiek and George Longanecker will leave Spokane this winter and open a bunch of real bowling alleys in Kalispell, Montana. The two local baseball men are great fans of the winter sport and have been looking around for some time trying to locate in the northwest.
Last year Ostdiek bought a billiard and pool room in St. Maries and made good in fine shape and figures he will be able to repeat this winter in the bowling business. The interest in the game in Kalispell is good and the local pair expect to get their drives in working order as fast as the workmen can lay the wood."
1913-4-29 La Grande. Contract issues w/ Union Association.
1914-7-27 Chronicle. Longanecker tells how bad Helena and Butte have supported ball this year. One game at Helena began with 7 paid admissions in the stands. In Butte on 7-05, admissions totaled $35.
1914-7-28 Boise. Released by the Union Association when the UA went from six teams to four - now the league has just two umpires. League president's explanation: other two umps are married.
1915-4-15 Chronicle. George Longanecker - VG pic. Umpired one year in the Northwestern League and several more in the Intermountain League. Has lived in Spokane the last few years. Will manage Lewiston in the Montana State League this year. 1918-3-18 Billings. Opened up-to-date bath parlors with wife in the Babcock-Selvidge Building.
1918-6-20 Billings. Profile - began career with a semi-pro team in KS called the Sox - was 13-2. Cartoon of him.
Middendorf, Bert 1945 C.T.O.P. in Puget Sound tournament
Seaton, Joe p NWES two-way 1907 Harrington White Sox
Veley, Will c 1907 NWES 1907 Davenport
Johnson, Bob 288 MLB HR 1952 Tacoma Brewers
Teams
Seattle
Daniel Dugdale profile.
1934-3-14 Killed on 3-09. Pic. Born in Peoria, 1865-10-24. Was a batboy for the Peoria Reds in 1878 - all but one of the players went to majors - included Old Hoss Radbourne. Radbourne made a catcher out of Dugdale when he had him catch him in warm-ups.
Daniel Dugdale profile.
1934-3-14 Killed on 3-09. Pic. Born in Peoria, 1865-10-24. Was a batboy for the Peoria Reds in 1878 - all but one of the players went to majors - included Old Hoss Radbourne. Radbourne made a catcher out of Dugdale when he had him catch him in warm-ups.
1907-5-14 "Charles Roadnight, chairman of the athletic committee of the board of directors and athletic captain of the S.A.A.C., has decided to resign from board." Thinks club is not supporting sports. "The resignation of Roadnight is not the first from the same cause. Dr. Luhn and Billy Connors are two others, and, it is claimed, there are more to follow."
1908-1-04 The S.A.A.C. has offered the use of Cook's Gymnasium for the amateur indoor league, as the Armory is booked up. S.A.A.C. has a team in the league.
1908-12-17 Manager Vollman, manager of one of the S.A.A.C. indoor teams, has signed Roadnight. Roadnight played a few games last year. Used to be one of the premier indoor players.
1900-7-07 Stanford 31, S.A.A.C. 9. Connor at catcher. Review of player stats. "Iron Horse" Stopher.
1900-7-07 Stanford 31, S.A.A.C. 9. Connor at catcher. Review of player stats. "Iron Horse" Stopher.
1901-4-14 S.A.A.C. 5, Spokane NWES 2.
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Spokane Indians
1911-4-07 S-R. "The boys are all saying nice things about the work Bob Bracken is doing for them. The ex-fighter has the science of massage down as fine as any "osteop" in the business, and he knows what a sore muscle is. "He can knead the kinks out better than any rubber I ever saw in my life," said Lou Nordyke. "Why, the big leaguers ought to draft that guy."
1911-4-07 S-R. "The boys are all saying nice things about the work Bob Bracken is doing for them. The ex-fighter has the science of massage down as fine as any "osteop" in the business, and he knows what a sore muscle is. "He can knead the kinks out better than any rubber I ever saw in my life," said Lou Nordyke. "Why, the big leaguers ought to draft that guy."
Washington Browns
1938-6-15 lose 4-3 to Susanville
1938-8-06 lose 9-4 to Provo Tramps
Began in 1936 as touring team of college players from Mississippi, called St. Louis Blues. Returned in 1937 to base operation in Yakima and become the Washington Browns. 1938 was final season.
had HOF Bill Foster, brother of Rube Foster, in 1937.
Davis, Piper 1938
1910-7-30 Army tournament, including 25th Infantry.
1942-9-26 Fort Lewis Warriors. Star pitcher is black: Ford Smith.
Misc.
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1908-6-01 S-R. Kettle Falls team pic. Have lots of old Inland Empire stars. Have Kavanaugh, the old Palouse Giants' catcher.
1908-9-04 Chronicle. Spokane Hazlewoods team pic. Won 18 out of 25 games this season. Have Eddie Grigware/Gregware, future City Leaguer.
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