https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn83045782/1914-12-27/ed-1/seq-17/#words=Akana
https://ourgame.mlblogs.com/the-pcl-and-the-color-line-f3033b00ed55
Tuesday, October 31, 2023
Walter McCredie wanted to integrate PCL in 1914
Hume Le Prince Battiste
Black (mixed-race) - deaf-mute
1914-5-23 with Helena Senators - 1914 Helena Senators BR stint not listed on either BR or Shadowball
1914-6-26 with Edmonton Eskimos 1914 Edmonton BR stint not listed on either BR or Shadowball
article says Calgary players are former teammates
1915-5-15 (WA) for Springdale, beats Colville 7-6
"When a ball team has the pitcher crippled, and the catcher, first baseman and an outfielder go fishing and then auto 45 miles before the game, as was the case in the Colville team last Sunday, it is no wonder they could not win."
1915-7-03 beats Colville 3-0
1919-1-03 joins Goodyear Mutes in Akron
1919-6-26 for Minden, loses 7-6 to Loomis (NE game)
1920-7-01 for Minden, loses 4-3 to Hastings Grays
1921-5-12 beats Wilcox 10-2
1921-6-30 faces team with Averill who is not Earl Averill Sr.
1921-7-22 for Minden Wildcats, loses 2-1 to Blue Hill - play by play
Albert "Smiley" Clayton
NOT Zachary "Smiley" Clayton comment clarifies:
my dude is Albert "Smiley" Clayton - (1904-69)
"Albert is the one pictured in the 1946 Oakland Larks uniform, I believe the image is from the Oakland Museum. Albert “Smiley” Clayton was born in Kansas. He and Foy Scott were longtime teammates from the Reno, Nevada area (1933-35 Scott Motors of Reno, 1936-37 Verdi Nine, and 1938 Reno Brewery teams) with Jimmy Claxton. The three integrated these semi-pro teams. Albert went on to play for the California Eagles and finally the Larks with Scott. He was a well-regarded power-hitting catcher in semi-pro circles. Seems Zach stayed east of the Mississippi. With great respect, Ty Phelan."
my dude is Albert "Smiley" Clayton - (1904-69)
"Albert is the one pictured in the 1946 Oakland Larks uniform, I believe the image is from the Oakland Museum. Albert “Smiley” Clayton was born in Kansas. He and Foy Scott were longtime teammates from the Reno, Nevada area (1933-35 Scott Motors of Reno, 1936-37 Verdi Nine, and 1938 Reno Brewery teams) with Jimmy Claxton. The three integrated these semi-pro teams. Albert went on to play for the California Eagles and finally the Larks with Scott. He was a well-regarded power-hitting catcher in semi-pro circles. Seems Zach stayed east of the Mississippi. With great respect, Ty Phelan."
1926-4-06 apparently also boxer
1926-5-24 playing cf - hit 5th HR of season - in Central AZ League
1926-6-28 lose 24-10 to Commercial League All-Stars
1926-8-02 Phoenix Colored Giants - 3b - hit HR
1927-4-25 with Phoenix Colored Giants in Central League - beat Ray-Sonora 7-2 as pitcher
1929-6-16 with Phoenix Colored Giants
1931-8-20 leading Phoenix Colored Giants with .418 average - team has won 21 and lost 4
manager of the club
1931-8-23 will play Southern Pacific Lines for state championship - says Clayton has hit 16 homers
1931-8-24 yesterday Phoenix Colored Giants beat S.P. Lines 13-11 - Casa Grande Stars have challenged Giants to match - Clayton yet to decide whether he will refuse
1932-9-02 catcher-pitcher for Scott Motors
1935-4-19 Scott Motors
1936-5-24 Reno Garage catcher - hits triple - they defeat St. Louis Blues
1937-9-25 "Reno-Susanville athletic war continues Sunday"
1938-6-12 Bud Beasley's catcher for Susanville, beat Washington Browns 4-3
1938-6-19 lost to Washington Browns 7-6
1938-8-28 beat Fallon 16-14 - Fallon has lefty 2b
1938-9-4 beat Alturas 13-5, Beasley & Smiley Clayton both homer
1943-4-12 opening game of California Eagles - defeat Cincinnati Rookies 8-5
after Clayton hit 3-run HR in 10th
1944-8-13 for California Eagles - homers and doubles
1945-9-23 Pierce's Giants beat SP Stores
1948-6-05 California Tigers won Raimondi Winter League
1948-6-12 with California Negro Tigers - team has won 27 of 32
1949-6-03 California Tigers
Willie "Tat" Mays played with California Tigers
West Coast Black Clubs
https://shadowballexpress.wordpress.com/tag/california-eagles/ lots of pics - lots abt Pierce Giants
an embarrassment of riches
1943-9-16 California Eagles will play two games v. Oakland Oaks - roster given
Saturday, October 28, 2023
Ernie Lindemann
1906-10-06 With Elizabeth Stars, beats Chatham 5-0
1911-8-27 Wins 9-0 for Plainfield
1912-8-25 Wins 27-7 for Plainfield - made six hits, three of which were long enough for home runs if he had cared to run - a cartoon of him - "big blonde German"
1917-8-05 Wins 10-3 for Chippewas over College Points- hits home run
1904-7-03 has violated contract with Toledo - teams banned from playing against him
1906-4-30 to pitch with Brightons
1906-8-30 Lindemann now with Loughlins - part owner
1908-7-13 Hussey accepts challenge from Brightons for five-game series
1908-9-01 Al Farmer filling in at catcher for Brooklyn Superbas
1913-5-27 Lindeman-Hohman battery praised. Ridgewoods broken up by ban on Sunday baseball - since death of Al Farmer, Lindeman only pitches w/ Hohman
1913-5-29 Al Farmer is dead
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
Tuesday, October 24, 2023
Bud Beasley
1937-5-23 pic giving prize to kid
1938-10-30 pic as half-back
1941 pic w/ Mike Salinsen
1942 pic in action of throwing
1954-6-29 pic good profile - only grandfather playing in WINT
lives in Reno, divorce capital "That Reno's kind of a seaport town, what with the tied running in and the untied running out." (groan)
1935-9-14 named U. of Nevada freshman football coach
1937-11-17 Reno town team organized, first club game in Reno in years. Beasley is a long, accurate thrower of spirals.
1937-8-15 Chism Ice Cream pitcher, lost no-hitter with two outs in 9th in game v. Camp Reno soldiers
1938-6-12 pitching for Susanville, beat Washington Browns 4-3
1938-6-19 lost to Washington Browns 7-6
1938-8-28 beat Fallon 16-14 - Fallon has lefty 2b
1938-9-4 beat Alturas 13-5, Beasley & Smiley Clayton both homer
1939-5-30 beat Stockton Amblers 3-2
1939-8-01 in softball, leading league in batting. In baseball, to pitch for Sierra Royals against Kansas City Monarchs.
1939-8-02 W/ Sierra Royals v. House of David
1939-9-24 With Reno Garage, will pitch against Southern Pacific Stores, semi-pro champs of Oakland tourney- visitors may bring PCL players
1939-9-24 defeated SP Store 6-3 - have beat them three times this year so could claim unofficial championship - prob. could have won if entered Oakland tourne
1941-4-27 opened season by beating Ogden Reds of Pioneer League 2-1.
1941-6-04 shutout league-leading Lovelock club 8-0 - struck out 13. "The durable southpaw had the batters on edge with his "psychological" windup and continual throws to first..."
1941-6-07 "rocking chair wind-up"
1941-6-10 Sierra Nevada League teams making offers to Beasley. some opinions as to the fittingness of this alt pretty interesting
1942-4-23 team getting put together
1942-5-01 Threikel, Beasley, & Capriotti to recruit players - club will use Jack Threikel's park
1942-6-23 scoreless streak at 29 in relief outing
1942-7-23 usually the king of the dugout jockeys, Beasley has been silent for the last week - laryngitis
1942-8-07 Reno Garage batting
1945-7-08 idol of Sacramento fans - has rooting section devoted to him - "clowning and eccentric wind-ups wow fans"
1945-7-26 "specializes in 'psychologizing' opposing batsmen with crazy windups"
1946-3-01 got nice raise - talks of how San Francisco Seals are making nice $$$ by having spring-training in baseball-mad Hawaii
1946-8-26 "Dick (Kewpie) Barrett, Portland's roly poly pitcher, did an excellent job imitating Bud Beasley's delivery. And the next inning Beasley appeared on the first base coaching line with a pillow inside his uniform, which gave him the general appearance of Barrett. The fans got a big kick out of the comedy."
1953-6-21 pitching for Threikel's Cubs, beats SP Stores
1947-5-23 Reno Silver Sox to hold night for him
1947-5-29 Bud Beasley Night
1985-4-25 "Mr. Educator" - party for his 50th year as a Nevada "coach-teacher-friend"
"in those early years, Beasley would take off summers and pitch" in the PCL. "Known as 'the clown prince of West Coast pitchers', left-hander Beasley was noted for his humor and sly diamond tricks..."
Casey Stengel said "When I was managing the Oaks Beasley drove me crazy."
"in those early years, Beasley would take off summers and pitch" in the PCL. "Known as 'the clown prince of West Coast pitchers', left-hander Beasley was noted for his humor and sly diamond tricks..."
Casey Stengel said "When I was managing the Oaks Beasley drove me crazy."
1985-5-09 profile/pics
2004-7-20 Obit w/ pic makes front page
2005-5-18 "Foundation to carry on Bud Beasley's legacy of helping kids"
2015-8-30 same pic as in obit but in color - anecdote abt PCL days
https://elementaryschools.org/directory/nv/cities/sparks/bud-beasley-elementary-school/320048000432/
https://elementaryschools.org/directory/nv/cities/sparks/bud-beasley-elementary-school/320048000432/
Dakota Leagues
https://attheplate.com/mallards/biogs4.html Baseball bios of Minot Mallards, MANDAK
Man-Kota League (Manitoba-Dakota)
1913-5-16 League reorganized; schedule given. Old officers re-elected. "Each team will pay its own expenses when away from home and take the gate receipts for home games. This forces each town to support its own team."
1913-5-30 (Bottineau Courant) Lines
1913-8-11 Waskada's winning streak is snapped at sixteen as former major leaguer Marvin Peasley, pitching for Hartney, defeated them 4-2. "famous Waskada team of pros."
Dakota League (D)
1921 BR
1922 BR
Dakota League
1923
Brandt, Ed 1923 Aberdeen Doing great - after he left Seattle, discouraged that he wasn't getting a chance, Seattle sold him to Aberdeen.
South Dakota League (D)
South Dakota League (D)
1920 BR w/final standings
1920-7-11 (Sioux Falls) Standings. Play by play for one of Sioux Falls' games over weekend - boxes for both. Lines for other games. Paul Shiely, one-armed umpire, has been a disappointment - Perry Werden was brought out to coach him but it did no good.
Bismarck
1921-5-02 Work done for team & field
1928-4-13 Team is getting new uniforms.
Minot
Bismarck
1921-5-02 Work done for team & field
1928-4-13 Team is getting new uniforms.
Minot
1919-7-31 Shirley beats Donnybrook 1-0, k's 14. Minot lost to Berthold 4-3 in a 20-inning game. Shirley then beat Berthold 7-5. "Several auto loads of Minoters went to Berthold to lend the Minot boys their support, something like a hundred from this city attending."
1921-2-17 "H. H. Hester of Glasgow, Mont.,was in Minot several days endeavoring to lease the ball park and to secure control of a base ball organization for Minot for the coming season. Mr. Hester formerly managed the baseball club at Great Falls, Mont., and visited Minot last summer as a member of the Glasgow ball team. Mr. Hester while here endeavored to secure monthly subscriptions of $1200 from the businessmen, promising to give this city a good brand of league baseball, but was not certain that he would be successful."
1921-2-24 "Baseball enthusiasts in Minot and other sections of the Northwest, will be very much pleased to learn that we are going to enjoy another season of first class baseball, and they will also be glad to learn that the prospects are bright for Minot to have a much stronger team than she has ever had.
At a meeting held recently, H. H. Hester, well known baseball baseball manager, was selected to manage the Minot team this year.
"Minot businessmen will sign up for $1100.00 a month to support this team for five months.
Arrangements are now being made for the use of the baseball park and the games will start early in May.
"Mr. Hester is capable of giving Minot the best baseball team in the state. He has had the experience and he is the right kind of a man to manage the team. He comes here with the undivided support of the city.
"Minot players will be given every opportunity to make the team. We have a number of strong players residing in the city and unless something goes wrong with any of them we may expect to see Ted Shirley, Bing Worner, Ira Rush, Jim Henessey, Billy Kline, Almer Morris and others on the diamond.
"Mr. Hester figures on getting two or three men direct from the coast league. His present plans are to play three series a month at home and one series in one of the other towns. As Fargo, Bismarck, Valley City and Devils Lake together with other cities will have especially strong teams this year, there will be no trouble in giving the fans some mighty good games. Jack Twiford, who managed the local team last year, is behind Mr. Hester and his team for this season.
"Mr. Hester has had a good many experiences with baseball. He managed the Great Falls, Mont. team in the Northwestern League and the old Union Association for four years. He managed the Salt Lake City club in the Coast League and Union Association. He managed the Phoenix, Ariz. club in the Rio Grande league and was manager of the Outlaw Copper League at Ray, Ariz."
1921-5-19 (Minot) Minot beat Rugby twice last weekend; Brandt and Kutina were the Rugby pitchers. Minot has now won five straight games.
May not be long before major league scouts are looking over the Minot sandlots.
1921-6-02 The Minot team drove to Bismarck Saturday morning for a series of three games, "but owing to very heavy rains from Turtle Lake south to Bismarck, the games were called off. The Bismarck team accompanied the Minot team to this city for three games."
1921-6-16 Minot was 2-1 v. Bismarck in Bismarck; a total of 2400 attended the games.
1921-6-23 Beat Leeds 1-0 then lost to Leeds in a close game. Undeservedly small crowds,
1921-7-14 Minot team has decided to keep playing through the end of the season. H.H. Hester has relinquished management of the team.
"The local team has not had the best of luck in several ways except that distinction of being the only team in the state that has not lost a series to any team. Fargo is the only team that stands even on the games played with Minot and Valley City has taken some 5 out of 7 games from Fargo. Minot has won from Leeds in the two games played and they have defeated Cando and Cando has defeated Devils Lake in the series played. Bismarck won only one game out of the six played with the locals. As to the money taken in at the gate, there have been several things that have worked against the local management. Decoration Day was a total loss. The games here the Fourth with Grand Forks were a fizzle as they brought no team at all, after giving absolute assurance they would give the locals all they wanted. All the first class players from there were out playing with other teams the 4th and they brought anything they could find from stenographers to farm hands, who would wear a suit. Then a counter attraction kept the crowd away till the game was over when it was pulled off west of the city at 3 p. m. instead of 1 p. m.
"Joe Moore, the popular "big fellow" has assumed the duties of managing the team and there is no doubt that he will get the fans' support and that all will be satisfied."
1921-7-21 (Minot) Went 2-2-1 with visiting Calgary Black Sox. Also beat picked team from the reservation 12-6.
1921-8-18 (Minot) 1st annual Rotaries-Kiwanis game raises $150
1921-9-01 "Joseph Moore, manager of the Minot baseball team, and Billy Hille, one of the popular players, have been given places on the Minot police force and it is probable they will be here next year when the baseball season opens. Moore is the best all-around ball player Minot has ever had."
1922-6-15 On 6-18 "Shirley Day" will be held at Dorman's ball park for Ted Shirley, popular pitcher of Minot for the last six [alleged] years." He's off for California next week and this will be his last game with the local team.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/125571556/irving-victor-wallace Includes obit. Was a very cool guy.
1921-9-07 (Grand Forks quoting Minot) Irving Wallace, 19-year-old catcher for the Burlington Independents, eight miles from Minot, circled the bases in 13 seconds on labor day.
1921-11-03 (LA Times) Irving Wallace, who played with the Burlington Independents of Minot this year, is now in our midst, looking for a ball team.
1922-1-08 Has signed with the Daring White Sox, a traveling team that operates out of St. Louis. Will receive $1,250 a month + expenses.
"From Los Angeles, comes the report that "Speed" Wallace, a former Burlington, N. D. lad, has signed up with the Chicago baseball team for a series of 110 games during the coming season at a salary of $1,350.00 per month and expenses. Wallace recently broke the world's record for base running.
"Irving Wallace, who is known on the coast as "Speed" Wallace, is the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. James Johnson of this city. He is at present attending college at Los Angeles, Calif., taking an electrical course, in which he has shown considerable proficiency.
"Wallace is a famous athlete. His record for running broad jump is within six inches of the world's record.
"The special news report from Los Angeles to the Independent, sent by Correspondent H. Collins, is as follows:
"Los Angeles, Cal.-Sid Meely has returned to Chicago, with plans fulfilled. The results of his visit, we lose two summer prospects.
"Before leaving Meely announced that he had signed Hugh Helman and Speed Wallace for a series of 110 games. Wallace to catch and Helman to cover second.
"The deal for Wallace surpass any so far this season for a junior player. He is to receive $1,350.00 and expenses per month. It is understood he is also to coach base running and to make two exhibit runs each week.
"They are ready to report May 1st."
1922-5-18 Has returned from Long Beach. "has been taking a course at a California technical school during the winter months." Due to a fractured leg, "Speed" Wallace cannot fulfill his engagement with the St. Louis baseball team this summer. Son of Mrs. H.A. Kluver of Burlington.
1922-9-07 Has equaled the record of 13 seconds around the bases he set in LA, this time on the Burlington and Minot fields. Stopwatches and judges all attested to his time. He also ran the bases in 15 1/3 seconds in full catcher's armor.
1923-3-20 (Bismarck) Drove a Chevrolet from Minot to LA; 3100 miles covered in 122 hours without stopping. Wallace claims he slept only two hours - even this mite was made possibly only by the presence of a relief driver. "The average rate of travel was 25.4 miles per hour, which means that terrific, death defying speeds had to be made wherever possible."
His nickname is given as "Speed," and he is described as a professional race driver.
1923-6-03 (Long Beach) Irving Wallace, once of this city, drove 2000 miles from Long Beach to Minot in three and a half days; ahead of railroad mail time. Drove a Star automobile.
1928-3-05 "Minot, N. D., Mar. 5.-(AP).-Revelation of his acceptance of the managership of Charles Paddock, famous runner, was made in a letter received here by Irving Speed) Wallace of Minot, from Brownsville, Texas.
"Paddock is to meet Wallace in southern Texas in the near future, and together they will cover various colleges and universities, both of them appearing in exhibition runs, and Paddock giving lectures.
"Arrangements for Wallace to become the manager of the famous sprinter were made here a few months ago when Paddock appeared in this city on a lecture tour."
1928-4-04 Says that Speed Wallace is the manager of the top sprinter Charlie Paddock - and that Wallace has entered the Bunion Derby. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-American_Footrace
1928-4-25 Progressing well on his own personal Bunion derby - averaging over 50 miles a day. Running from Perryton, TX to Bismarck, ND.
1929-3-26 Narrowly escaped serious injury in a car accident outside of San Antonio.
1939-5-20 Profile + pic.
1944-10-04 Pic. His juvenile novel "Mystery in the Tropics" is in many libraries; best-selling.
1959-11-16 At funeral of Senator Langer.
Bandelin, Oscar p-of 1900 Sioux Falls Canaries. 1900-8-13 Recalled by Minneapolis.
Blanford, Fred c 1899 Sioux Falls 1900 Sioux Falls Canaries
Boardman, Charlie p 1929 Bismarck Grays Lost 10-0 to Cuban HOD. "hasn't pitched 15 innings of baseball in the last 12 months" known as batter 1930 Bismarck Independents
Bandelin, Oscar p-of 1900 Sioux Falls Canaries. 1900-8-13 Recalled by Minneapolis.
Blanford, Fred c 1899 Sioux Falls 1900 Sioux Falls Canaries
Boardman, Charlie p 1929 Bismarck Grays Lost 10-0 to Cuban HOD. "hasn't pitched 15 innings of baseball in the last 12 months" known as batter 1930 Bismarck Independents
https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/Charlie-Boardman/ VG
Kutina, Ed p 1921 Fargo 2 - v Minot 3 - v. Minot
Kutina, Ed p 1921 Fargo 2 - v Minot 3 - v. Minot
1921 search
Starnagle, George c - 1g with CLE 1899 Sioux Falls 1900 Sioux Falls Canaries 1.2K ATT - great game - two combined errors in 11 innings. 125 Flandreu rooters came to game on special train - bet freely.
Starnagle, George c - 1g with CLE 1899 Sioux Falls 1900 Sioux Falls Canaries 1.2K ATT - great game - two combined errors in 11 innings. 125 Flandreu rooters came to game on special train - bet freely.
1900-8-13 Starnagle offered Minneapolis contract at $150/month - refuses to stay with local club.
team not same as 1900 Sioux City Cornhuskers (WL)
1900-9-18 End of season banquet for Sioux Falls Canaries. Says where players are going - they are all going to their respective homes. One will join a theatrical troupe which is touring.
Idaho Leagues
Alfalfa Valley League
1920 Boise 5-17 standings + play by play. 7-05 standings
1920-7-15 After clinching pennant Boise players do not care about remaining four games. Manager Cordes is annoyed. He is arranging post-season games with S-I and Snake River League clubs. He requests all players be at ball park by 5 today for a panorama to be taken of the team.
Boise Valley League
1908 Boise Shamrocks 7-09 standings
1908-6-10 league organized.
1908-7-04 Shamrocks will appear for first time in new uniforms in today's game. A number of S-I players will appear in the lineup for Nampa.
1908-7-09 Shamrocks and Boise Athletics will play game for purse of $200
1908-7-30 Falk Mercantile will like to join
1908-8-16 Shamrocks called champions; roster listed.
1908-6-21 attendance of several hundred
Hecla Mining League https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hecla_Mining
Hecla Mining League https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hecla_Mining
1927
1937
1930-6-02 Mel Ingram will direct league
1930-7-04 Ingram's Hecla team will play Missoula today
"The Coeur d'Alene has always been a red-hot sports town, with fine baseball teams, good scrappers, and able athletes in other activities."
"Mining town rivalry of old will be exemplified this afternoon as Butte and Wallace clash to determine which should play Missoula for the title."
1931-6-13 12 game series for $100 prize will be played between Mine, captained by Charles Bonata, and Mill, captained by Mel Ingram.
1937-9-26 Attendance of 13K for seasons 24 games.
"Approximately 50 per cent of the league's roster are high school or college players, coming to Burke for the vacation period only." Some college and HS players listed.
Games are played in Hearne Park, a $12K stadium built in 1927 and named after Bill Hearne, "old-time miner and ardent sportsman." Dimensions: 375 to left, 325 to center, 280 to right. Seats 1K.
Gonzaga alumni have played important roles in league. Mike Pecarovich helped organized league in 1927; Mel Ingram has been Hecla recreational director for four years, including the last three.
Jake Messner, an old pro, has won the league batting title for times; other winners are listed.
"Some $1200, 50 per cent of which is contributed by mining employees and 50 per cent by the mining company, is divided each year among players of the leading teams. Since first place takes the lion's share, the excitement stirred up in the last week of play is easily imagined."
Close pennant race this season.
"Each year the Hecla firm spends some $2000 to operate the league. Admission at all league games is free to all comers, company, employees and otherwise."
Hecla All-Stars won Idaho-Montana semi-pro competition. Lack of funds prevented team from traveling to Wichita.
Pic of Hecla All-Stars & Mel Ingram.
Idaho-Oregon League
1948
Idaho-Washington League
1925 Upstairs Price 6-28 standings
1927 7-08 standings
1935 Beavers
1936 8-04 top 6 batters
Trekell, Harry 1926 Cour d' Alene 2 1b-MG
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
1926-8-03 Profile + pic of Smith, Sad Slim who owns a franchise in the league which is named after him. Interesting story.
1936-4-25 Bohemian Brewers roster listed. Includes Mel Ingram & Herb Anderson, who was 22-3 last year for the eastern House of David .
"City officials have installed diamond equipment on the new field for all leagues playing there during the summer season. Contracts were let Friday for construction of a stadium roof, to cover the 3,500 seats."
1936-7-11 Herb Anderson bought by Lewiston from Bohemians, manager Denny Walsh announces.
1936-9-17 League MVP voting
1936-7-11 Mel Ingram. Will not be able to play with Bohemians again until August - his work at Wallace does not let him away for weekends.
1936-5-24 Spokane Chronicle. Local boxes, standings. Bohemian Brewers, which beat Coeur d'Alene twice in the doubleheader, did not make a single error in 16 innings. "Officials said the feat was the first of its kind recorded in at least five years of league play."
Idaho-Washington Mines League
1939
Murphy, Art PCL/.412 in UTID in 1927 - now 41 1939 Wallace Miners 1b
Naslund, Hugo U. of Minn. catcher 1939 Wallace Miners
Ingram, Mel pinch-ran 3g for 1929 PIT 1939 Wallace Miners MG. Spent several years with House of David.
Northern Idaho League
Northern Idaho League
1924
Bonner, Al 127 pro wins 1924 Kellogg loses 9-1
Fitzke, Paul 1924 Cour d' Alene played 1 g w/ Indians in 1924 - in PCL until 1943
North Idaho tournament
North Idaho tournament
1948 Spokane Oscar Levitch Jewelers
1948-7-12 (Cour d'Alene) 1K ATT, boxes, all-district team named.
1948-7-12 (Spokane) Oscar Levitch Jewelers win North Idaho non-pro championship; Les Taylor named batting champ (8 for 18.) Boxes.
Southern Idaho League - very little coverage 1908-10.
1907 5-06 standings
1908
1909 Nampa
1910
1911 Buhl 8-06 standings
1912-1915 did not play
1917 6-28 standings
1918 did not play
1919 Rupert final standings (for 3 top teams) final 2nd half standings
1920 Buhl Paul & Oakley dropped out early in season. 8-09 standings
1920 Buhl Paul & Oakley dropped out early in season. 8-09 standings
1921-22 did not play
1923 Jerome
Bartholemy, Al 1919 Paul MG-c
Evans, Rube 1919 Rupert
Osborne, Johnson Hit .295 in 77 games for Oakland in 1923 but had .883 fielding as outfielder
died 1924-10-03
1919 Rupert - led league in home runs
died 1924-10-03
1919 Rupert - led league in home runs
Reppy, Gay p five separate cups of coffee in AA - in only full pro season was 13-11 for
Johnson Walter 1907 Weiser league schedule ends 7-14 - at end Walter's contract shall expire and he will go to Washington DC 75 shut-out innings 7-27 leaves for DC
Pillette, Herman 1919 Paul hired for a game
Stroud, Sailor 1919 Rupert
1919-9-15 Paul team pic. All but three of the players are from Portland.
1919 Rupert pic - champions of Idaho
https://attheplate.com/wcbl/1909_1.html 1907 note
bio of Rube Evans - brought emery ball with him in time with Rupert which was not appreciated
1907-4-13 nicknames of the clubs. Team rosters listed. Plenty of pros.
1908-3-08 Harkness, the big Californian, has contract to pitch for Boise.
1908-3-12 about forming a new league, of lesser quality.
1908-4-09 Mountain Home had good club in S-I last year; should organize a team again this year.
1908-5-28 scores.
1908-6-04 Boise team incorporated - $25,000 of stock issued. The players signed for stock.
1908-6-13 Directors of Boise club called into court for failure to pay for baseball uniforms. Prominent business men among the directors. Amount due: $260.35 to H. Seller & Co. Boise's team may need to disband. If Boise drops out of S-I the league may die.
1908-10-04 Since the days when John McCloskey managed Boise we never had so good a team until our current Boise Shamrocks. "Hundreds of dollars have been expended to import men here to play one or two games a week in the Southern Idaho League"
1909-7-22 picked nine will play Nampa.
1910-4-21 opening games 4-24.
1911-5-11 league organized and schedule given.
1911-7-25 league contains keen rivalry and good ball. Awakening interest in baseball.
1911-11-03 W.E. May died 10-30 of typhoid fever.
He managed the pennant-winning Buhl club this year.
1916-5-04 Twins Falls places its trust in Kelly, former NESL pitcher who was marvelous last year.
1916-5-11 schedule ad for opening game
1916-9-19 Shoshone was winner of first half, Twins Falls was winner of second half. League is determining whether championship series will run three or five games.
1916-9-21 Series will be best-of-three. Ruled that no player can play in series who did not play one game for team during season. Rupert attempted to convince the league to overturn the games in which Robinson played for Twins Falls against Rupert, which would had given the 2nd half championship to Rupert. Robinson had been signed by Twins Falls at the beginning of the season and Rupert wanted to buy him for $40, and even though Rupert did not pay the money Robinson played a time with them before coming back to Twins Falls. The league ruled this was no cause for forfeiting.
1916-9-30 Jerome of S-I will play Glenns Ferry at Elywhee Festival.
1917-2-22 Buhl is considering filling the vacancy in the league left by Kimball. (they did not)
1917-7-11 league died. Twins Falls disbanded - only three teams left. The remaining three teams will attempt to find a fourth, and if they succeed a new league will be instituted. (seems like they failed)
1919-8-22 Burley's averages during trip to Boise.
1919-8-24 1200 fans - Rupert 2nd half champions if they beat Burley next week, Burley first half champs - series to be played between 'em
1919-9-05 Report on Rupert players.
1919-9-26 Pitcher Alexander of Paul signed by Sacramento
1919-10-05 big article in Salt Lake Tribune on report.
1919-10-11 Burley Herald corrects error in article.
1920-2-26 The Rupert team will be financially aided by the Commercial club. Rupert has a deal pending with a PCL team for a battery.
1920-5-08 Ad for game between Burley of S-I and Blackfoot of Snake River. Tickets are 75 cents.
1920-8-25 Report of doubtful veracity that Bill Gleason, former S-I catcher, has joined Pittsburgh NL.
1921-1-02 "The Buhl baseball team had $45 in the treasury after all expenses of the season were paid, according to report of Joe Boyd, manager. The team won the championship of the Southern Idaho League, and claims the championship of the state by virtue of victories over Boise and Pocatello, champions, respectively, in the Alfalfa and Yellowstone leagues.
"I heard the other day that there has been some talk of having a Southern Idaho League next season, and right here let me say, that if the fans won't patronize 25-cent baseball, played by boys that don't get anything but abuse for their services, I can't see how a team that has paid players on it is going to make good." By 25-cent baseball the author was referring to the local league, whose games were unfairly unpatronized.
1922-3-31 league organized. Nothing else showed up for it in search for "Southern Idaho League."
"Each team will be allowed to import two men but salaries at limited to $75 a month, thereby making jobs one big item in getting men." Interesting - would have to provide a job to draw a player.
"Each team is to contribute $50 to a season's purse, hung up for the pennant grabbers and chasers. The winning team is to get $200 of this amount while the runner-up will drawn down another $100. Each team is to post a $300 surety bond that the season will be completed."
1923-5-25 schedule.
1923-7-27 Game ad. Admission: 35 cents.
1909-4-25 scores of opening games. 100 rooters accompanied Emmett on road game.
1916-5-14 Twin Falls 4, Kimberly 3. 15 innings.
1916-5-15 Rupert 7, Burley 5. 700 ATT.
1917-5-06 opening
1919-8-14 box!
1919-8-24 box
1919-8-31 Burley 7, Rupert 5. 1800 ATT - largest crowd of season.
1920-5-16 opening: three games. Burkley 4, Oakley 2. ATT 700.
Buhl 10, Paul 8. Attendance 3000. "A special train brought the Paul team and about 500 Paul fans to the opening game. Two bands, representing Buhl and Paul, furnished music between innings and helped root for their favorites.
former MLB Chick Fraser is manager of Jerome.
Western Idaho League
1923 Emmett 7-23 standings
1923-7-22 misc. player news.
State tournament:
1948 Nampa
Coursey, Del p (I think) 1948 Nampa turned pro at 25 and was good in C
1948-7-28 tournament all-star named
1948-4-21 Hank Matsubu signed by Payette.
Pros:
Bandelin, Oscar high minors good two-way 1907 Sandpoint Probate judge in Sandpoint - dominated in relief.
Howell p 1907 Vancouver NWES 1907 Coeur d'Alene shutout Sandpoint
Longanecker, Arthur p 1905 Moscow shutout Palouse Giants 4-0. Caught by Bodie. 2 1906 Moscow Threw first five innings of combined no-hitter with "Terrible Teddy" Roosevelt. 1907 Moscow 1-hitter 1908 Wardner-Kellogg 2 box
Osborne, Tamp p stabbed manager in 1910 1907 Wardner (Spokane)
Osborne, Tamp p stabbed manager in 1910 1907 Wardner (Spokane)
Veley, Will c 1907 NWES 1907 Coeur d'Alene
1905-7-14 Spokane Chronicle. "Ralph Dodd has returned from Moscow and Palouse, where he has been umpiring the championship series between those clubs and Ritzville.
Dodd has been keeping his eye on the pitchers, and his opinion of the twirlers in this section of the country is certainly interesting.
Dodd classes Longanecker as the best pitcher in the Inland Empire. He points out that the Moscow boy has won every game he has pitched, and has been delivering beautiful ball all the time. Dodd classes him high, and says he is the star of the district.
In speaking of the other pitchers, he says that Rush, [sometimes called 'Terrible Teddy']Roosevelt, Greggory, Middleton and Pugh are all good, but they have all had their victories and their losses. Dodd says Middleton is one of the best twirlers, but has never been given the best of a show, as he always has to play some other position when not pitching. Dodd says Middleton is the best first sacker in the Inland Empire, and one of the best hitters in the country.
Rush Is Good.
Rush, says Dodd, is pitching great ball and doing effective work and is one of the strong twirlers of the Inland towns. Greggory of Ritzville and Pugh of Reardan have also been doing great work. Dodd believes the Inland Empire has the best bunch of twirlers this year that have ever performed in eastern Washington and Idaho."
1907-9-23 "The Wardner manager deputated Frank Smith of this city to represent him in making arrangements with the City league officials, and a conference between the president and managers after yesterday's games resulted in the consent of the City leaguers to give up their second scheduled game and turn over the field to the Wallace and Wardner teams at 3:30.
Manager W. S. Brainard of Wardner writes Mr. Smith that a special train of eight coaches will come down from the Coeur d'Alenes with a band and rooters' brigade to give Spokane people a spectacle of rooting and enthusiasm that hasn't been seen this way in years. Remembering the famous Idaho day, in June, 1904, when Boise and Spokane played before over 7000 wildly enthusiastic people in the morning and afternoon, it may readily be believed that the Idaho fans mean what they say."
"MULLAN, Idaho, Sept. 22.-Hickey, the pitcher of the Mullan baseball team, is having a considerable amount of difficulty in collecting the wages he claims to be due him for his services and threatens to bring suit against the baseball association of the village to recover $350. At the close of the season Hickey presented a bill for this amount, representing his pay still due at the rate of $350 a month, but this was considered too much since Hickey did not pitch all the season."
1908-4-28 S-R. Grangeville ID fans have pledged $200 a month for a ball team. Will enter a league - other teams listed.
1907-9-29 Wallace and Wardner played to a 5-5 tie before 3.5K fans in a game for the championship of the Coeur d'Alenes. The crowd was a din - the stands were excited. "Not since the days when Boise used to draw such a tremendous following from the Coeur d'Alene districts and northern Idaho when its team played the Indians at Natatorium park have these historic grounds ever seen such a jam of excited, noisy fans as packed almost every available square inch of the stands yesterday afternoon."
"A big delegation of rooters accompanied the Wallace and Wardner teams from the Coeur d'Alenes and did some vigorous and unique rooting. They brought along a barrel of money to bet on their favorites, and betting in the stands was lively."
1915-8-02 Caldwell has arranged three game series with Twins Falls, supposed to have one of the best teams in Southern Idaho.
1920-7-04 Pocatello Indians sign two new players
1920-7-27 Barney Kerns has resigned as manager and Fallentine has resigned as catcher; they have been replaced by Bill Rose and former Coast-Leaguer Bill Gleason.
drawing of him
1907-8-25 Spokane S-R.
"Baseball in the Coeur d'Alenes has probably seen the most exciting season this summer ever known before in the history of that region of intense living. The spirit of speculation and thrift that carries into that country men with the natural spirit of sportsmen best finds its expression in a baseball team, and with their customary pride, they will be satisfied with nothing but the very best that money can buy.
drawing of him
1907-8-25 Spokane S-R.
"Baseball in the Coeur d'Alenes has probably seen the most exciting season this summer ever known before in the history of that region of intense living. The spirit of speculation and thrift that carries into that country men with the natural spirit of sportsmen best finds its expression in a baseball team, and with their customary pride, they will be satisfied with nothing but the very best that money can buy.
Recently "Tamp" Osburn, one of the pitchers of the Spokane league team. received something like $175, it is reported, for having pitched a game for Wardner against Wallace. On this game alone something like $3000 changed hands. In winning. Osburn was presented with a big slice of the winnings of several individuals.
The success of the Coeur d'Alene team against the Spokane Indians in an exhibition game at Coeur d'Alenes last Monday may be taken as a fair example of the development of the game as played by the "brushers" in the Idaho mining section. While Coeur d'Alene might not be able to repeat the trick once again in a series of a dozen games, and certainly have no reason to think it anything more than the baseball luck that happens to minor league teams every year in exhibition games with the big leaguers, yet the tabulated score indicates that the semi-pros. actually outplayed the Indians both at the bat and in the field and it's just as well to let it go at that.
Wallace and Wardner are perhaps supporting a team that costs them as much money as any class C or class D league team in the country. From reports, their salary list must run upwards of $1000 a month alone, and players in these mining camps always make a big bit outside of their salary by a brilliant play in a game that will win for some of their excited backers a good sized bet put up on the game.
Full of Many Fast Players.
Among the crack players in this country who are now making good money and who are playing good ball, at that, are Chris Steltz, formerly with Boise in the old P. N. L. and recently with Fresno of the Coast league; Ralph Kreitz, the brilliant red-headed catcher for the Colfax team, the winners of the trolley league pennant, and four other members of that team: Bill King, two years ago with the Northern league as a star pitcher; Clyde Parks, a southpaw who was offered a contract from three of the Northwestern league teams and who jumped a contract with Edmonton to play with the Rosalia Trolley league team, and many others.
One of the fastest teams in the Coeur d'Alene country was the St. Maries team, which was made up very largely of college boys on their summer vacation. This team, with Parks pitching and Percy Thompson catching, was almost unbeatable. Parks is probably one of the best young southpaws the amateur and semi-professional game has ever produced around the Spokane country, and would probably make good in any team in the Northwestern league if given an opportunity. He has a splendid assortment of curves and excellent control for a young left-hander. His speed is great, and while a physically small man, he seems to have great natural strength and endurance.
Kreitz and Dudley, from the Wardner team, were given a tryout with the Seattle league team and Dudley was taken to Butte. Reed, an all- round utility man, who was Colfax's star pitcher, is now being given a tryout with Russ Hall's Butte team.
Coeur d'Alene's Record.
The Coeur d'Alene team, which defeated the Indians, has had a varied career. The merchants of that city formed a stock company early in the season, and raised nearly $5000 to pay players for the summer. They landed Hansen, a southpaw, who was worked in one game by Russ Hall for Butte; Howell, who was released by Vancouver: Trager, a terrific batsman, who worked two or three games with the Seattle team; Kruse, a center fielder with the Three-Eye league two years ago, and other star ex-leaguers. They have won the big majority of their games, but have been beaten by Wallace, Wardner and St. Maries, Parks once shutting them out.
The excitement and enthusiasm that have attended some of these games make the rooting accorded a Northwestern league team look like a lawn social. It is vastly more on the order of a college football team's trip to the enemy's country. Two or three special coaches are loaded down with yelling, noise-making individuals, who never let up in their demonstrations once the train pulls out of their home depot until, after the game has been played and won, the same coaches pull back into their home city and the voices are simply worn out.
The betting fever runs high. The home fans will bet their last cent, borrow from the baby's bank, wager their jewelry and give orders on their coming pay check. If you beat any of those teams on their home grounds you can clean up the town. Thousands of dollars have been won and lost on a single game.
The St. Maries team has disbanded. but the Wallace, Wardner and Coeur d'Alene teams are still in the furor of a hot series among themselves. A trip up into this country to see one of those games would be well worth one's while, for the novelty and refreshing enthusiasm of it alone, if not for the very excellent quality of baseball the teams put up."
1907-6-13 Ritzville 3, Coeur d'Alene 1. Howells homered and k'd 13 in loss.
1907-6-13 Ritzville 3, Coeur d'Alene 1. Howells homered and k'd 13 in loss.
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