Provincial championship
1932 Class B: Smith-Airline of North Vancouver
1932-9-25 Smith-Airline of North Vancouver team pic. W/ full names.
Vancouver Interassociation Baseball League
Vancouver Interassociation Baseball League
1908
1908-3-30 There will be three classifications - Senior, Intermediate, and Junior - and about a half dozen will play in each league. Teams which wish to enter must apply & pay by 4-11. Age limit is 16 for Junior and 18 for Intermediate.
1908-7-09 Charges against players made at last night's league meeting. It is illegal for teams to play on Sunday, and this rule will be applied to individuals. Those who have played Sunday baseball, in Blaine or against the Chicago Bloomer Girls on Dominion day, may be disqualified. The issue will be decided by the British Columbia Amateur Athletic Union.
Vancouver Commercial League
1920 stats
1936 Asahis
1937 rosters
1936-9-14 Asahis 7, A.&Q. (Arnold & Quigley) Cubs 2. The Asahis won the best of seven series 4-2 - 2 additional games were tied. Asahis won title before an overflowing crowd at the Powell St. grounds. Amby Moran (NHL) umpired.
The Asahis will begin a best-out-of-three series with the Ioco Imps, Terminal League champs, today.
Vancouver Senior City League
1920 stats
1923 stats
1926 6-26 standings
1928 final stats
1929 stats Miron won 2nd straight batting title
1930 stats final batting
1931 stats
1932
1934 Arnold & Quigley
played touring Tokyo Giants
1936 Arrows
1928-8-11 Sun. Very good pics of league leaders, including of Miron. Miron led league with .343 average.
1930-8-23 Sun. Final averages - very good. Pic of Jimmy Watters, one of the league pioneers, who led the league with a .356 average. Watters pic.
1935-4-15 Bellingham. Vancouver baseball boss Bob Brown will direct work on Bellingham diamond.
1935-4-16 Bellingham. Ralph Wilkie, Bellingham Model Truck manager, has closed an agreement with Bob Brown, Vancouver baseball leader, in which the Model Trucks will be the fifth team in the Vancouver Senior League. Will also play in the Northwest League.
1935-6-01 A ton of misc. interesting info
1935-6-01 also + misc. info - Pat Shea before 1st game only threw 4 warm-up pitches & walked 10
1935-6-22 importations discussed
1935-7-06 "Earl Lewis calls Ray O'Dell a 1:30 hitter" - a guy who hits well in batting practice
but not in games - various stuff, including abt umpires
but not in games - various stuff, including abt umpires
1935-8-03 a recounting of screwy player antics
1935-8-06 Ernie Paepke a manager
1935-8-24 Sun.
"Coley Hall waited for Boyd Staggs the night of the Athletic park mob scene, at the gate. Couple of hundred people waited too. Staggs was challenged but refused to fight, said Hall was too tough.. When they were talking out on the street Hal Houghland came up and said he started the whole rumpus so he should be the one to be punched, but luckly for Hal, maybe, Coley and he are really great pals... Incidentally it was an officer of the law who prevented renewed activities in the street, after the game. So between Gerry's dancing and our ball players, don't we have our street scenes...
"Coley and Frank Hall and Boyd Staggs were suspended for one game. However Staggs' game was last night and the Hall boys have to cool off during the first playoff game Monday, which makes it tough on the Athletics... Ed Henry was made manager of Uniteds, in their last game, over Johnny Nestman Earl Lewis is shooting in the high 70's on the golf course. His boss, Archie Arnold, is fighting that fussy stomach again... Thank for the hat, Ed Irvine ... Harry Coglan, prexy of the ball league sends a card from New Orleans where he says there are a lot of ball players with color... Billy Adshead played softball for Jones Boys against the rules of the Senior League which may cause some fussing..."
1935-8-31 Lodi is writer's pick for MVP - "In fact, Mussolini will probably be sending for him soon to be squishing the Ethiopians out. He'd likely to do it single-handed." 'kay. Learned to bunt w/ Vancouver
letter: "The enclosed is the left hind foot of a rabbit shot by a cross-eyed, red-headed, colored gentleman at the full of the moon, in a Mormon cemetery, at midnight of Friday the thirteenth, on the grave of a left-handed Swedish pitcher, who was clubbed to death by his manager for stealing second with the bases full. Wear this and you will go out and take four straight from the Homes."
1935-10-05 A pic with Daro Lodigiani ("Lodi") and Marcel Serventi with Oakland
1935-11-05 pet quotes of varying people - including some from the league
Game ad - games are every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 8:00, and Saturdays at 2:30 and 8:00.
Ads from team sponsors Arnold & Quigley (A.&Q.) and United Distillers Ltd. (UDL).
Pics of Roy Holden (of the famous Holden family) and Pat Thomas.
First half schedule listed. April 24 through June 30.
Ladies attend all games free. Admission: Grandstand, men 35 cents; pavilion, men 25 cents, children ten cents.
(1936-9-08 Arrows 9, Athletics 6. Athletics 6, Arrows 5.
1935 pics incl Dario Lodigiani,
1935-5-05 Boxes. Pic of Charlie Miron. Pitchers thought they did not need to worry about him - his ages and waist line have so increased - but he was 5 for 5 yesterday. He is in his 18th season of senior ball.
Lodigiani and Serventi were farmed out by Ossie Vitt.
Two Holdens in Arnold & Quigley lineup.
1935-5-17 Bellingham. Box. 2K ATT at Bellingham's first night game. 11 innings.
1935-6-04 Herman Pillette throws no-hitter v. Uniteds of Vancouver Senior City League
signed to contract just a few hours before gametime
1935-9-13 News-Herald. Playoff stats.
(1936-9-08 Arrows 9, Athletics 6. Athletics 6, Arrows 5.
1936-9-14 Athletics 7, Arrows 4. Athletics took 3-2 lead.
1936-9-16 Arrows 19, Athletics 9. Series decided. Arrows hit four home runs.
Coley Hall, the Arrow boss, promised his players 12 beers for every home run they hit. Ha.
Charlie "Big Cholly" Miron was released earlier in the season by A.&Q. - hit two of the longest homers ever hit at Athletic Park last night. Drove in six runs. His second homer "landed on the roof of a house on the south side of Sixth avenue."
Good Charlie Miron pic.
1923 pics1935 pics incl Dario Lodigiani,
Ed Henry 1935-7-06
1935-6-01 Andy Padovan/ Hal Weinker
says Nat Bailey signed Lodigiani (& others) on CA scouting trip
Vancouver Senior City League
1943 stats
1943 stats
1944 6-19 standings
1946
Clarkson, Reg good - not sure why his career was so short 1944 Arrows
Edy, Roswell .346 1939WINT 1944 Arrows
Holden, Daniel started as p, became of - played till 1960 1944 St. Regis
Orteig, Ray 1939-58, mostly in PCL - as position player 1945 Norvans 2
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
1945-12-31 "lion-hearted throwing of rubber-armed Joe Faria" Zane Hickok hit in 15 straight
1945-9-11 Bellingham 9, A&Q 6. Playoffs.
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. 1500 ATT
Padovan, Andy 1944
1945-9-15 Casey Jones & Ray Orteig
1944
Bellingham MG: Joe Martin
Vancouver Terminal League
1931 stats
1934 7-24 batting Asahis have more than 2x as many stolen bases as any other team - fielding percentages are all around .950.
1935 stats Kaz Suga Final standings
1936 Ioco Imperials (Imps)
1935-5-18 Bellingham. Bellingham Furniture Manufacturers team picture.
Pros:
20-4 with 1903 Spokane PNAL - died mid-season of septic endocarditis. Barely 21 years old.
1903-7-22 Vancouver. Called King Nichols. Single - lived with parents in SF. Details of death.
1901-6-22 Upcoming games.
1900-7-08 Victoria Amities 8, Nanaimo 5.
Very enthusiastic crowd.
1901-7-07 Victoria 8, Tacoma Greys 7. "Hallowell and Hodge, the Tacoma battery, were recently released by the Seattle professional club in the Pacific Northwest League."
"The team will wear their new uniforms in next Saturday's game. The color is a light fawn, blue stockings and trimmings, with the letter 'V' across the breast. The uniforms will be up to date and looked very neat on the field."
"Possibly the most amusing feature which accompanies a baseball match is the vast amount of gratuitous advice thrown out to the players from the concourse of spectators." Provides samples.
1901-8-18 Victoria 14, Chehalis 7.
1901-10-20 Victoria 6, Ladysmith 2. Benefit game for manager of Ladysmith, who was killed in Extension mining disaster.
1902-7-06 Victoria 18, Port Angeles 1. 500 ATT.
1903--04+7-05 Port Angeles 9, Victoria 4. Victoria 22, Port Angeles 2.
1904-7-10 Sedro-Wolley 12, Victoria 5.
McQuade ss cup of coffee in PCL 1908 Victoria Wonders - also spelled McQuaid?
"Victoria was represented by President Leonard A. Wattelet, who has done much to make semi-professional ball popular in the island city...
Victoria will get several players from other clubs."
1910-11-08 It is likely that today the Royal Athletic Park will "pass from the hands of the Royal Park Association into the control of the syndicate which is supporting the professional ball nine."
The park has never been a financial success.
1910-12-06 Team has seven players sewn up. Two new additions signed by Eddie Householder who scouted in California for several weeks.
Wattelet has played with Victoria for three years and run the club for two. It is due to his efforts that Victoria has acquired "the advertising incident to baseball. That feature alone is worth thousands of dollars to a city."
Victoria has play by play for all games.
Northwest League did not have balanced scheduling - some teams spent 70% of games on road, some at home.
Pictures of all the players - Johnny Williams & Jack Roche. Very good resource.
Both Surphlis and Wattelet died in WWI.
Vancouver
1935-8-24 Sun. "Who Remembers???"
"An afternoon at Powell Street grounds in 1904 when Babe Shock, pitching for Everett, beat Les Harvey, Vancouver's barber-pitcher, 1-0 in exactly 55 minutes for the full nine innings..."
"The afternoon at Queen's Park when George Paris (so they said) pulled a gun at the door of the Vancouver dressing room when irate Salmonbelly fans chased a Vancouver player off the field.
When John McCloskey was manager of Vancouver's first professional league baseball club and he saw his first lacrosse match at Recreation Park between afternoon and evening ball games. "Why do they bother with them sticks? Why don't they use axes?" he asked...
When Umpire Lou Mahaffey was "mobbed" as he left Recreation Park and Vancouver gained fame by having the incident recorded in the Reach Baseball Guide. .. And the day that Ira Harmon pitched all 18 innings of a doubleheader and won both from Bellingham. Tealey Raymond and Johnny Burns playing as sweet second and short in 1905 for Bellingham as Tinker and Evers did for Chi. Cubs. Hausen, a catcher brought from Utah by Manager Dickson in 1907, getting a homer over left field fence his first time at bat-and nary an- other hit in three days..
And not in Vancouver but of Vancouver:
John McCloskey, sitting in front of the elevator of a Spokane Hotel checking in his players at 11 p.m. on the eve of a "crucial" game. Every man filed past into the elevator-all but three went down the back fire escape and back to where they got a pint-and-a-half "pail" for a nickel.
That's a long way back Hal, but I hope your readers will enjoy them. A PUBLICITY SHUNNER.
1951-1-20 Charlie Miron pic. Beginning to play softball.
1962-11-21 Miron pic + profile. And his memories. He is now with the fire department, along with other former players.
1962-11-23 Victoria Times Colonist.
"It is so easy for an old gaffer like me to wonder out loud what fun the kids of today have that comes anywhere near matching the fun kids of OUR day used to have, that I try to avoid the subject.
But a spread on the sports page of The Vancouver Province a day or so back plunged me so deeply into a nostalgic bath, I'm compelled to talk about it, in an effort to dry my self out.
The central figure (and what a figure!) in this story was none other than Charlie Miron.
Name mean anything to you?
If it does, you were probably a member of the nickel club at Vancouver's Athletic Park nigh unto-and I mean this-40 years ago.
The nickel club (it had a more formal name, I'm sure, but it was the nickel club to us members) consisted of boys 14 or under who were admitted to baseball games for the price of five cents per each.
This was accomplished by having a membership card, duly signed by a parent or guardian. By producing this card, plus five cents, us kids were privileged to sit in the left-field bleachers and indulge in unrationed hero worship. As you've guessed Charlie Miron was my hero.
In fact, he was the corporate (and corpulent) hero of most of the nickel club. For Charlie Miron could hit that ball. Boy, could he hit that ball.
Also, he could miss hitting the ball with a swing almost as exciting as one of his towering home runs.
If you want to know what kind of a hero Charlie Miron was, let me tell you about the day Babe Ruth turned up in the park as a member of a touring team headed for Japan.
The Babe (maybe this was in the script, but we didn't think of such things in those days) took a three and two count, then pointed to the centre-field pole and banged one out of the park.
Amid the general cheers of the adult members of the audience, small mutterings could be heard in the nickel club section.
The general concensus was, Ole Charlie coulda hit it further.
Charlie Miron, of course, was not the only hero who earned the adulation of the nickel club. We cheered impartially for every team, we laughed insanely at the antics of Norm (Bananas) Trasolini, we tried to imitate the enigmatic, small smile of Lefty Kaye, and jumped up and down every time the Nestman brothers started or ended-a fight.
Just as a matter of curiosity, I'd like to hear from other old gaffers like me who think "those were the good old days" when admission was a nickel at Vancouver's Athletic Park.
I'm quite sure the fun the kids of today have at least matches the fun kids of OUR day used to have but there's no tax on dreaming, is there?"
1945-3-01 Capilano Stadium - burned down 2nd time in 20 years. Miron etc. watched in quiet desperation. 1st fire was in 1926 - Bob Brown said that baseball resumed in three weeks with temporary stands.
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