Thursday, July 27, 2023

Arizona leagues

History of Phoenix minor league baseball


Arizona State League
    1924 Mesa Jewels  9-29 standings No play-off series
    1925 Mesa Jewels 1st half batting split season 10-08 standings
    1926 Miami Miners

    Antista, Tony 1925 Nogales
    Menges, Billy 1925 Mesa + Miami
    Seaman, Bryce 1925 Mesa 1925 led U. of AZ batters 1923 ditto had played as a pro 1921-22
    Vigare, Felix 1924 Mesa 

     Baerwald, Rudy 1925 Globe

    1924-9-28 Mesa Jewels.
    1925-10-25 Mesa Jewels. Had 21-14 record.
    Miami Miners 1926 pic

    1924-9-28 Review of league's first season. Attendance was improved around league. Supported by fans and business men, the teams were able to import players. 
        Fall and winter ball will be experimented with here in the valley this year. 
    1924-10-03 Ad for series between Mesa and the Juarez Internationals, champions of MX-NM-TX.
    1924-10-04 Preview for Mesa-Juarez for championship of the Southwest. Juarez has won 27 straight games.
    1924-10-05 Tom Burke, former Miami 1b, league's leading hitter, homer record holder, and MVP, will play today for the Juarez Internationals v. Mesa.
        Mesa beat Juarez 15-2.
    1924-10-08 Yam Ornelas and Tom Burke, Miami players, are heading to the Imperial Valley of CA to play winter ball there.
        Phoenix Tigers manager is trying to organize a winter league.
        Former Phoenix Tigers manager makes all-star team.
    1924-10-10 Mesa has been invited to play in Southern California.
    1924-10-29 Mesa lost for the first time in its tour.
    1924-12-28 The Mesa Jewels are sponsored by the Mesa Athletic Association.
\    1925-3-31 Two Jewels players signed with Raleigh PIED
    1925-4-12 Rosters with full names. 
        President R.J. Spiers is optimistic for opening. 
        Previews for opening tomorrow.
        Profiles of members of Phoenix team. REALLY GOOD.
        Also brief profiles of Nogales players. Team was organized a few weeks behind the others. Financial contributions came from Nogales and Sonora. "Nogales has never had a losing team because the fans have supported baseball too loyally to permit such a condition to exist. There are 20,000 or more people in Nogales from whom the Internationals draw their support. The Spanish speaking part of the population of the two cities of the border are baseball fans of the most enthusiastic type."
        Fred "Hook" Jackson is "originator of 'tequila ball,' which starts well, gets dizzy and wobbles home."
    1925-8-18 Mickey Shader received a blackhand letter telling him to get out of town for his dirty baseball. Must've been a joke or a nut; Shader plays immaculate ball. He recently won his fifth shutout, incidentally.
    1925-8-31 (Nogales) Schedule for rest of season.
    1925-9-02 Eddie Carlson, local sports fan, recently went on a trip to the coast. He saw a few PCL games and he considered the AZSL not too far below them.
    1925-10-08 Mesa will play Nogales today to break their deadlock for 1st place.
    1925-10-12 (Nogales) Mesa and Globe agreed to play a championship series.
        Rudi Baerwald held that Ross Lyall, Mesa 2b, was eligible for the state league even if he was on Fort Worth's retired list.
        League president does not consider Nogales' protest of Lyall. This means Nogales will disband as they have no hope. 
    1925-12-25 League meeting will be held 1-03.
    1926-3-04 Mickey Shader and Tiny Leonard will arrive today in Globe to help prepare for the season.
    1926-3-22 Nogales' roster for 1926 is almost complete.
    1926-4-02 Rosters with full names. Managers listed. 
        Profiles of Nogales team members. Lists player itineraries. Players from all over.

    1924-11-04 The Glendale Greys will play the Phoenix Tigers with ringer pitchers like Freddie Fitzsimmons and Herb Hall.

    1924-10-12 Mesa 18, L.A. United Parcels 3. (report taken from LA Times)
    1924-10-19 Mesa 4, Kern River Standard Oil 2. 

    1925-8-30 (Nogales) Nogales boxes only. 
    1925-9-06
    1925-10-04 Last game of 2nd half.
    1925-10-08 Mesa 14, Nogales 5. H.G. Bush of the Foworth Bush Lumber Company of Mesa offered the Jewel players $10 for every run they scored, which added to a tidy sum. Play by play. 
        
        1925-10-14 The game on 10-11 drew 1.2K fans to Globe park and another 1.2K-1.5K watched the progress of the match on the Phoenix Republican Wonder Board.
        1925-10-19 Preview. All businesses and offices will be closed in Mesa from 3 to 5 at time of last game: solidarity.

    1925-10-11 Globe 5, Mesa 1. Less than 1K ATT.
    1925-10-12 Mesa 3, Globe 2. Play by play. 
    1925-10-18 Mesa 4, Globe 2. Pbp. 
    1925-10-19 Mesa Jewels 9, Globe Bears 0. 
        "Receipts for the series, according to unofficial announcement, were approximately $2,605. Globe will take all of the $1,070 taken in at the two games played in Globe and Mesa will take the entire proceeds from the two games on the southside, according to the agreement between the two clubs for the series. Sunday's receipts at the Mesa park were $1,170 and yesterday's receipts approximately $465."

Tri-Copper League 
    owned by Ray Consolidated Copper Mining Company source
    many players from PCL, RGRA, also some from Trolley League
    1916 Ray Mines (won both series) 6-9 standings 9-29 final often has play by play
    1917 Mill  Ray Miners batting final Ray 1st series

    Critchlow w/1916 Milwaukee 1917 Smelter
    Munsell, Emmett 29-12 in 1915 between PCL&TL 1916 Smelter
    Tobin, Joe 1916 1917 Miners
 
    Carisch, Fred 1916 Smelter MLB 1903-23 - played in Dakota leagues in last years
    Hall, Herb 1917 Mill ringer for post-season series

    Cates, L.S. league pres. in 1916 - instrumental in bringing top players to AZ
    Hosp, Franz 1916 HR won ball game - got choice of $5 hat or suit
    1915 Mesa with averages from last year


    1915 championship series

    1916 post season series Mine v. All-Stars
        10-08 Mine 2 All-Stars 1 

    1914-10-01 Phoenix & Silver City about to play series for championship of AZ & NM
        Herb Hall, etc.
    1916 Flame Delhi signed with Ray rather than report to KC
    1916-4-28 baseball issue w/ picture and bio of every player in leagues WE WANTS IT
    1916-6-23 Herb Hester leaves to manage NWL team gives bio of Hester - will be replaced by                 Thomas         Downey - Delhi also learning civil engineering - Delhi has 6-2 record
    1916-8-04 Miners managed by Beaumiller "GOTT STRAFE HESTER" (God punish Hester)
    as opposed to "Gott Strafe England"
        Hester censured by Seattle Times for bad conduct as MG of Great Falls
      1917 Ray Miners have scattered at closure of season Herb Hester MG - Bromley has three contract         offers 

    1916-6-23 emery ball banned after Johnny Lush started using it
    1918-3-22 Jack Roche wishes he hadn't jumped after league went kaput
    1919-6-18 Ray team is reorganized

Warren District League
    1918



    1918-3-26 Gil Pittman is captain - pilot-  of Junction Briggs

State tournament:

1933-7-23 Rosters listed. 

Etheridge, Bill 1933 Tucson

Pros: 

Seaman, Bryce 1920 Phoenix Oilers 2.2K ATT. 11 innings
Waldschmidt, Wallie  1917 Junction-Briggs (box gives RBI & batter K)




reports from the Tombstone Epitaph






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