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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