Central League
1926 Ludlow & G.-H. Armco 8-9 standings 10 teams in league
1927 Times-Star
1926-4-10 Opening day is tomorrow. Bob Bescher, former CIN stolen base star, will play for Springfield. Ludlow were 1925 champs.
1926-11-10 clubs returning for next year - league made $40 profit
1926-5-31 Cincinnati Enquirer. 3K ATT.
Viox, Jim 1927 Ludlow
1927-8-21 Wee Willie Gutzweiler, diminutive portsider & one of top pitchers in league
lost to MLB Jim Beckman 1-0
Larry Jacobus
1928-2-08 *loses right eye* relied mostly on spitball
https://www.newspapers.com/search/?date=1926&keyword=%22central+baseball+league%22
Indiana-Ohio League (D) (BR says Ohio-Indiana but incorrect)
Indiana-Ohio League (D) (BR says Ohio-Indiana but incorrect)
1907 BR (No info)
1908 BR (Stats)
1907-7-15 (Richmond IN) Portland manager Lewis Hunt and Richmond manager Jessup have been working to form league.
1907-7-20 Richmond. Meeting of managers. "Mr. Kling stated that he thought league ball would increase the gate receipts in every town from thirty to forty per cent and all the managers agreed with him."
Box for Richmond-Van Wert Friday game with an attendance of 100.
1907-8-17 (Indianapolis) Lewis Hunt has allowed two hits in 28 innings - eight in 54 innings. Threw 19 straight hitless innings.
1907-11-22 Richmond. League has balance of $80. Shows umpire expenses. Lists how much each time contributed.
1932 Dayton Marcos
1934 Richmond Lincos
1939
1940
1941
1942 Middletown Armcos
Bloebaum, Buddy in one pro year hit .281 in MSVL at 29 (1932) 1942 Middletown Armcos
Bass, Dick 1937 Richmond Kautskys post-season
Mackiewicz, Felix 1942 Lafayette Red Sox
1935-8-06 first names given for Indianapolis Sterlings - Russ Paugh is formerly of the Indiana University, and had a 20-2 record last year - Sterlings have a 14-3 record so far
1936 Joe Kelly, Richmond Kautskys
1935 Russ Paugh pic, Indianapolis Sterlings
1935 Jimmy Tobin/ Norman Babock, Sterlings
1935 Indianapolis Sterlings team pic w/ full names
Weeb Ewbank Pro Football HOF - played most years - Middletown 1942
Finals
1942-9-20 Armcos 4, Red Sox 3. 1500 ATT.
1942-9-27 no game
1942-10-04 Armcos 6, Red Sox 3. Red Sox 10, Armcos 8.
1942-10-11 Armcos 9, Red Sox 2. line score
Interstate Semipro/Baseball Association (based in Cincinnati)
1916
1916-2-07 15 teams in new organization.
1916-3-03 There are now 22 teams in Class AA Interstate Association.
1916-3-30 Meeting 3-31. Teams must pay $10 now, other $15 on 5-01.
1916-4-01 Two new teams joined. "Because nearly every team entered in the league so far represents a certain community, the Interstate may become the real Community League of [Cincinnati]."
1916-4-08 Rules are ordained concerning the hiring of umpires.
1916-7-27 Elimination series will start soon. The Ludlow White Sox will oppose the famous Brookville team, and a large crowd is expected.
1916-9-15 Norwood may play the Cleveland Strollers.
1916-10-24 Meeting. Hamilton Krebs team is suspended until it pays its $85 fine for persisting in using pitcher Herrmann, a crime it had already been fined for before. Twelve teams will receive $85 for share in gate receipts.
Over a span twenty games over which the comission had control, there was a total attendance of 57,136 and total gate receipts of $15,166.02. Expenses were $2,576.54. The Amateur Commission received $958.40 as its share, the winning club received $4,965.01, and the losing clubs received $385.21. The Norwood club received $610.15, the Norwood players received $405.09, the NBF received $156.45, and the Cincinnati class AA received $1,131.96.
+ details about park rental.
1916-8-17 Sunday's scores, with standings.
1916-8-24 Sunday's scores.
1916-9-07 Sunday's scores.
K.I.O. Semi-pro Association
1919
1922
1924 8-04 standings
1927 Greenfield
1928
1929 Cheviot
1931 6-07 standings
1934
Boehler, George 252 pro wins 1930 Lawrenceburg born & died in Lawrenceburg 1931 Harmony
Geary, Bob 189 pro wins 1929 Harmonys
Jacobus, Larry 176 pro wins 1929 Armco 1930 Middletown
Kopf, Larry 1931 Middletown long-time P-M
Pott, Nelson 1929 Cheviot as outfielder 1930 Cheviot
White, Red aka Buck MLB 1909-11 1928 Cheviot 1929 Times-Star
1922-4-22 Outfielder Kenneth Hogan, lately releeased by the Reds, will remain in Cincinnati and play with Price Hill.
1922-7-08 In effort to prevent players jumping, KIO will fine deserters $25 and is barring the officials of other leagues from their games. Leagues like Blue Grass League are trying to take away their players.
1922-8-12 KIO will take 5% of 3 final games & divide evenly among the 22 other teams. This has always been the KIO custom.
George Diehl of the Potters, who will face Price Hill in finals, has been pitching for Cincinnati amateur & semipro teams for a quarter century but is still a force to be reckoned with.
1923-6-23 League president John Dugan found that Joe Neale is ineligible to play in the championship series beginning 7-01. Under NBF rules he is ineligible because he played with Reds thru September 1922. Hack Farrell of the Potter is ineligible under the same rule.
K.I.O. releases, umpires, and teams listed.
1924-7-20 second round of championship series produces surprises
1926-3-18 p.5 TSN. Comello and Hunter, young infielders from Cincinnati, are trying out with Indianapolis AA. They both belong to the "K.I.O. Independent League, an organization which of late has sent many young players to the ranks of Organized Baseball. It was from this same league that Johnny Hodapp graduated to the Indianapolis team, making good in his first attempt."
1929-10-16 Wee Willie Gutzweiler again - beats MLB Joe Heving 1-0, runs scoreless streak to 19IN
Reddington & co-workers consider Wally Kopf & Viox as logical candidates for MVP
1934-2-05 Second reorganization meeting. Ten clubs admitted to league; six have announced their managers.
Cincinnati Enquirer has the boxes
Cincinnati Enquirer has the boxes
1922-7-08 Kirby "Red" "Buck" White, Price Hill regular pitcher, possibly the oldest local semipro pitcher.
Final
1922-8-13 Price Hill 10, Potters 2. No box. (Cincinnati Post.) 2.7K ATT. George Diehl touched for 23 hits. Price Hill has signed, under NBF rules, three new players, who may play for them in the NBF tournament but not the local series.
1923-8-26 Bellevue 3, Potters 0. No box. (Cincinnati Post.) Buck White shutout Potters; Potters have not beat him in seven years.
1922-5-07 Vic Johnson, Price Hill, one-hits North Bend.
1924
8-31 Before 10K, Gardner-Harvey beats Ludlow 4-0 behind masterly pitching of spitballer Al Leake
Ludlow was previously undefeated having won 19 straight games
9-07 Ludlow wins 2-0 Neal "King" Brady has his day
9-14 Gardner-Harvey wins 5-3 Leake wins own game with triple - Ludlow protests
protest turned down league pres wrote to both Heydler & Ban Johnson asking what they would do under same circumstance
Price Hill
1922-8-05 Has 19-0 record; scores listed for all. Have scored 200 runs and allowed 46.
Frederick L. Hoffman upholds the decision of John Dugan, K.I.O. president, to ban Rush Meadows and William Kuhlman of Oakley for having played a game for a Blue Grass League team, July 20. Under NBF rules players who have played in OB after June 1 are ineligible.
1922-8-07 Price Hill has won 20 straight; has not lost a game all season. Just now, ended championship Dreams of Oakley by beating them 6-0 before 5K fans at Redland Field. Oakley played with two players declared ineligible for KIO play because they had played for a Blue Grass League club in July.
1922-9-15 Five members of Price Hill, semi-pro champs of greater Cincinnati, were on the world champ 1917 Norwoods. The five: Buck White, Gus Kellerman, Harry Champlin, Gordon Weil, and Lee Witter. (Witterstaetter) Other NBF info.
Michigan-Indiana League
1935 La Porte Coalers
1946 St. Joseph Auscos
1947
1948 Lafayette Red Sox
1949 St. Joseph Auscos 8-30 standings 8-30 batting commented final batting
1950 folded mid-season.
Cyrulewski, Arthur (Art Cyrul) p vg 1949 St. Joseph Auscos
Orphal, John p 1949 Fort Wayne defending national champs - lost 18-4
Orphan, Hugh p 1949 Fort Wayne
Orphan, Hugh p 1949 Fort Wayne
Brewer, Chet 1949 Michigan City Cubs
Fields, Wilmer Negro League pitcher - of in AAA 1952 1949 St. Joseph Auscos 2
Flanigan, Ray 1949 St. Joseph Auscos Baseball in Wartime
McCoy, Benny 1946-48 St. Joseph SABR bio
Thomas, Walter NLB p-of
1948-9-10 St. Joseph. Commented Auscos stats. They were 10-4 in non-league games. Only four Auscos hit above .300 in 42-game league schedule. Some full names.
Playoffs begin today.
1948-9-23 South Bend. Studebaker local no. 5 finished season with 40-36 record. Was 20-22 in league schedule and 17-10 v. black traveling teams. 1st year in M-I League - was doormat of 1st half but did much better in 2nd half.
1948-10-19 Muskegon. Frank Ververka was 17-5 for the Benton Harbor Buds. On Sundays he pitched for Chicago Heights in another strong semi-pro league, with whom he was 20-3. [That other strong semi-pro league was the Greater Chicago Semi-Pro League.]
1949-8-19 Joe Bestudik stole show in pre-game individual contest - made three incredibly accurate throws from center to home. Wilmer Fields was less accurate but had one longer throw so was given 1st. Felix Mackiewicz showed good breeding by bringing gloves left on field into dugout with him in flight for shelter from the rain.
1949-9-09 Because Augie Hixson is hurt and players cannot be added to roster for play-offs, the Lafayette Red Sox may have to play in W-I playoffs without a catcher. Joe Bestudik will probably have to catch. (And he did.)
1949-9-10 St. Joseph Auscos will play Benton Harbor Buds in 1st round of play-offs. Prize of $1000 for playoff winner.
1948-9-19 Lafayette beats Studebakers before 3K fans to win championship.
1949-5-11 South Bend. Lots of Studebaker pics. Pic of four batters: 2b Danny Callan of Florence NY, of Denny Aeschliman of Wauseon OH, MG-ss Ray Scott, and Walter Thomas, veteran of last year's team.
Pic of three pitchers: Don "Burrhead" Evans, Tommy Demark, and Orinthal (Andy) Anderson. Pic of MG Ray Scott, former AA, who last year hit .267 with 14 doubles, 4 triples, and 4 homers. (source?)
1949-9-10 Wilmer Fields, Ross Jones, Mack Stewart.
Fort Wayne NBC champs 1947-50. Terrible record in M-I in 1949.
essay on 1949 Windsor Canadians very informative.
Northern Kentucky League
1929
1929-10-16 post-regular-season - Golden Rods have both MLB Joe Heving on mound and brother MLB Johnnie Heving behind plate. They lose 1-0 to Lawrenceburg, to the pitching of Wee Willie Gutzweiler - Heving behind the plate did not outdo Lawrenceburg's Tom "Red Hart"
1931
Burris, Roy .296 1928MSVL at 27 -only year as pro. 1931 Akron.
1931-7-15 (Battle Creek) Postum will play host to the Akron Firestones of the O.I.P. Akron finished 1st in the 1st half of the league with a 20-4 record. They have three heavy hitters, two of them 200 pounds.
Ohio-Pennsylvania League
1926 Akron General Tires (1st half 14-0) 9-02 standings
1927 Massillon Agathons enlisting big guns for Ohio championship General Tires batting
1928
Burdick, Johnny p 13-11 1929 Akron CENL 1928 General Tires Playing under name of Johnny Knell
Ketchum, Charlie 1926
Kelly, Eddie 1926 setting pace w/ 11 HR - has turned down many pro offers since 1921
which are detailed - a good position in the city/semi-pro = lot more money
1926-4-14 Erie roster filling out
2nd no-hitter and 3rd shut-out in eight days - has play by play
1927-6-05 Press. Pics of four Northside Traders, including Bimmy Steele. O-P talk.
1927-8-16 Beaver Falls Elks had 22-2 record in 1st half - first class roster listed
their pitcher who had chosen to remain semi-pro has beaten 14 major league teams: Elvin Hilty
1926-7-12 (Pittsburgh) boxes.
1927-6-11 Press Boxes, standings.
1926-6-11 Post. Boxes, standings.
1928-6-17 Akron. Local boxes. "Knell [Burdick] and Ed Kelly, Goodyear employes who were declared unsatisfactory for the Goodyear team, made up the winning battery for Generals in the second game."
"Iglasias, now playing under the name of Hickey," is at short for the General Tires. Your guess is as good as mine.
1926-9-19 Akron. General Tires take both ends of doubleheader from the Homestead Grays. Ketchum won the first game. 4.5K. The General Tires' last appearance.
Elvin Hilty
1919-7-26 Irwin loses 2-0 to Elmer Knetzer of Allegheny Steel
1919-9-14 Pitcairn, Pennsylvania Railroad - k'd 13 in 6 innings
1921-8-21 story of his discovery.
1922 pic as of 8-20 has 35 wins, 6 losses - of 6 defeats, two were against MLB teams
1924-6-22 "One of the old-timers who isn't far from the bleachers is Elvin Hilty"
says he worked in the railroad shops
says he worked in the railroad shops
1926-9-05 has 15-2 record pitched little in 1925 - had boils
called through two years ago when lost some games - has come back fully
1927-6-12 has shutout the league-leading Agathons twice "ace spitballer"
1928-4-22 signs with Coshocton Regulars of Eastern Ohio only pitcher to defeat Homestead Grays 4 times in season
1928-5-14 "Count"
1928-7-08 suspended indefinitely from Coshocton & league twice did not come to pitch
1930-6-05 w/ Pitcairn - Ollie Carnegie in his outfield - loses 5-1 to Altoona Works
1964-8-13 McGraw & Mathewson tried to sign him for $175/month
1968-8-13 GREAT RESOURCE - lots of memories - would get $75/g - says he worked as plumber
now 73
Ohio-West Virginia League
1923 9-03 standings
1923-7-29 The players manager John Olzeski of the Dillonvale Indians has gotten. He thinks his team is better than when it won the Ohio Valley League pennant in 1922.
Doctoring the ball is illegal in Ohio Valley - Rube Evans was ejected for it while pitching for Youngstown Valley Oils.
Southern Indiana - Southeastern Illinois Association (Si-Si Association)
1916
1916
1916-7-20 huge controversy over Warmoth obtained release under pretense of going to play with Terre Haute
Tri-State Amateur Association
1946
Niemes, Jack 1946 Deer Park Turf And Field 16K, 3H in 1st game since return from Navy.
1946-6-03 Trailmobile is only undefeated team - their star pitcher is Billy Adkins, a 15-year old high school sophomore. Adkins will face Niemes.
1946-6-23 Niemes beat Adkins 6-2.
Tri-State Federation
Tri-State Federation
1926'
1926-9-26 Standings for the elimination series of the Tristate League, Miami Valley League, and Millcreek Valley League.
Western Ohio League
1924 7-14 standings
1924-9-18 Urbana Eagles 5, champ Greenfield Athletics 3.
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