Monday, October 23, 2023

Michigan leagues

 State tournament
    1926

    

Battle Creek Civic Recreation Major League
    Gulledge, Bill p 1932 MSVL 1941 Post Products

    1941-5-27

Detroit Baseball Federation
    1929 Tool Shop (AAA)
    1947

    Blanchard, Bruce 1940 Puritan (class C)
    Drinkert, Edward c career .139AVG 1929 Henderson
    Ebranyi, William 1936-39 D, 1944 AAA  - convicted felon 1940 Checker (NBF game) 
    Pankratz, Bert c 1929 Fire Department batted 4th - is 9 for 13 1930 FD

    Bertoia, Reno 
    Schemanske, Fred p - 2 for 2 for 1923WSH 1929 Gabel-Risdon

    1930-5-04 VG. Season opens today - games listed. Pic of Tony Dugray, Tool Shop pitcher-catcher. The DBF has 34 teams in five leagues. Lists last year's champs. Pics of Stephen Parker and George Moran, the DBF's secretary and president.
    Lists some big and minor leaguers who once were Detroit sandlotters.
    Lists every class A champ from 1915-1929. 
    Profile of Hubert Johnson, once a drum major, now supervisor of all Detroit sandlot baseball.
    More teams are yet to open their season. 
    Now 38, George "Lefty" Tanner, once a top midget pitcher in sandlot ball, will attempt a comeback. He won 10 straight games for Quality Clothes in 1923, but when the entire team was disqualified for harboring an ineligible player Tanner and some of the other players quit permanently.
    1931-7-05 The Henderson team has quit the league because of dissension among the players. Pankratz, newly appointed DFD manager, has signed several of its players - among them pitcher Artie Houtteman, father of the future big leaguer. The AAA league is thus reduced to eight teams. 
    1940-10-29 MVPs of each class given awards - pics of all. Bill Ebranyi is given highest honor -             class A MVP award.
    1947-5-04 rosters of Class A clubs + pics of managers
    1947-8-20 receives indefinite suspension
    1947-8-23  Ebranyi suspended for a year for spiking player

    1929-5-05 Tool Shop finished 2nd in city championship to Checker Cab last season. Gabel-Risdon wins 20-1 - opposing pitcher goes the distance.
    1929-7-14 Boxes + lines for games below A.
    1929-7-21 A and AAA boxes. (I infer: A and AAA correspond to the NBF classifications.)
    1929-7-28
    1929-8-25
    1930-5-04 Opening. 30K watched 40 games - including 20K at the six diamonds of Northwestern field. Action pic. Season first listed. 
    There was a 46-2 game in class A.
    1932-6-12 Catcher Jim Selegan swallowed his chew as he rounded the bases after homering
    1933-8-20
  
    1947-7-06 5K ATT - only line scores - also action pic. Has list of all scores. 

    1934-8-18 Firemen's Field Day at Navin Field. Tivoli Brewery beat the Firemen 11-5 before 13K fans.
  1929-10-20 Benefit double-header for Mickey Arlein, Fort Street 3b injured in tourney at West Baden, IN a few weeks ago. Fort Street were A champs. 

    1931-7-15 (Battle Creek) Regal Finance AAA team pic - will play Postum. Lists plenty of ex-pros and ex-major leaguers, including Bobby Veach.

    essay on 1949 Windsor Canadians Ebranyi played with - has summary of illegal activities
    1956 yearbook for 42nd anniversary of organization
    Jim McDonnell SABR bio - a bit of a summary of league

    
Detroit City League

    1914-8-16 S&S loses 5-0 to Philadelphia Phillies

Detroit Manufacturers League
    1914 8-16 standings
    1915 Studebakers


Detroit Masonic League
   1914 8-16 standings 8-16 batting Walker has 16 sb in 7 games

    Lisk, Joe 1914 Zion (26 sb in 8 games)

    Lathers, Chick former Tiger  1914 Palestine

    Chick Lathers pic 1914

Detroit Railroad League
    1927


Flint City League
    
    Hoskins, Dave SABR bio of-p * 1941-44, 1947 
    GenealogyBank has Flint Journal

Grand Rapids City League
    1915

    Dutmer, Joe p I think 1915 Houseman & Jones lost 10-0
    Payne, Leo "Doc" epic milb hitter 1915 Greulichs 4 for 4

    1915-8-07 Players with state semi-pro teams will be banned from City League games beginning 8-08 - Leo Payne, with St. Johns earlier in the year, is one of two exceptions to rule.
    1915-8-08 Standings, lines. 

     1915-1-28   "Dr. James Ardiel is fighting hard to save Leo Payne, American Express company driver, from becoming permanently crippled. Payne is a well known local athlete and is an expert indoor baseball player. He was injured by his own sleigh last Monday evening when it passed over him after he had fallen.
    Three X-ray pictures of the injuries have been taken and they disclose a serious condition of the lower spine, some of the vertebrae being injured. Payne cannot walk at the present and he is suffering considerable pain. Another X-ray examination was made Thursday morning at Butterworth hospital. Payne was to have played indoor baseball the night he suffered his injuries."
    1915-6-28 1b for St. Johns team - nearly drowned while canoeing with lady on lake. 
    1916-1-18 "Leo Payne of Grand Rapids, switchman for the Grand Rapids and Indiana, was struck in the forehead by a door of a refrigerator car and knocked unconscious. He will recover." 
    1917-5-21 W/pic. One of two Grand Rapids men with railroad experience who "have entered the ranks of the Sixth railway regular enlisted engineers reserve corps for immediate service in France."
    1917-12-12 Letter from Dick Wyman and Sergeant Leo Payne, Grand Rapids boys who enlisted last spring. "All the local boys are in Company C of the Sixteenth engineers." They are "somewhere in France."
    Company has established a good baseball team - beat the Harper Hospital team of Detroit 9-1 a couple weeks ago. "Leo Payne, well known as a first baseman with the champion American Seating Company, was in the game." 
    1918-1-01 Brief letter w/ same pic from Sergeant Leo Payne. 
    1919-5-13 Steve Ocker and "Doc" Payne, recently returned from overseas, have been signed by the Harrison Reds. 1st team nickname "Doc" used?
    
Michigan Tournament
    1952

    1952-7-18 tonight two undefeated teams will clash when the St. Joseph Auscos play the Grand Rapids Black Sox. 

    1952-7-17 St. Joseph Auscos 7, East Chicago 0. 

Southwestern Michigan League
    1952 6-30 standings
    1954 6-28 standings

Pros:


St. Joseph Auscos
    1953-6-24 batting


MLB:


Fisher, Red 1924 St. Joseph  of-MG - and CHW scout
    Grimm, Grand Rapids star, will probably pitch for St Joseph - is this the Carroll Grimm who later managed Battle Creek Postum?
Miller, Elmer two-way for 1929 PHI, but with obscenely bad control
        1929 Postum 1930 Postum  1929-9-25 233 in bowling
Terwilliger, Dick p 1930 Battle Creek Postum Postum = Kellogg Cereal related

milb


Cerney, James ss 1927 Kelloggs
McMillan, Herman p 1927 Kelloggs threw 16 straight scoreless 1928 Kelloggs
Payne, Leo "Doc" epic milb hitter 1927 Postum  1928 Kelloggs 1929 Kellogg P-M
 1927-4-04 Last year "divided the season between a conductor's job on an interurban in Michigan and playing semipro ball. Unknown to Payne, several men who played against him in the semipro games were on the ineligible list of organized baseball." 1929-2-12 k'd 19 in 7 innings in indoor game.

1927-5-16 For their fifth year Postum and Kellogg will renew their city championship battle. They will play a 13 game series this year. Rosters listed with full names.

1926-6-19 Kellogg 8, Postum 2. Kellogg won second straight game in city series.
    Kellogg team pic. 
1928-9-16 Postum 5, Kellogg 4. 3K ATT. Pics of Carroll Grimm and Bill Kline. In the regular season the teams were 7-7 v. each other. Postum won their "little world series." 

1929-8-05 Phillies will play Battle Creek; Battle Creek civic recreation league players will be looked over by Phillies. Include future DET backup catcher Reiber, Frank "Tubby"
    Grimm, Carroll, former pitcher for Lansing CENL, is manager of Postum. Will receive $1000 scout-fee if Elmer Miller is kept by the Phillies for more than thirty days. Postum played to 1.2K ATT yesterday without a house in sight.

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Comstock, Ralph SABR bio also w/ Toledo Rail Lights 1919-20  1919 Detroit Maxwells during practice grandstand caught fire - players turned fire fighter and put out the fire, without much damage

1914-8-15 (Saturday) Detroit Free Press
    Commercial League, Manufacturers League, Masonic League, Oddfellows League, Railroad League
 1914-8-15 some misc. scores
 1914-8-16 (Sunday)
    Telephone League
1914-8-16 many misc.
1914-8-23 City League + misc. 
1914-8-30  misc. 
1914-8-30 more
1914-9-13 Urban Shocker beats Canadian All-Stars
1915-8-14 (Saturday) various standings, leagues
1915-9-19 Brooklyn 2, S&S 0. 
1923-7-08 (Sunday)

City tournament
    1914-8-16 rosters listed
    
    Barber, Frank at least 120 pro wins
    Hendershott, Vern 1914 Liberty
    Maurer, Mike  1914 St. Louis

    games at Packard Park. 

    1914-8-16 St. Louis 8, Euclids 1. Liberty 8, Timken Detroit 5. 
    1914-8-23 Packard 8, Grand Laundry 3. Wandersee 2, Alerts 2. 
    1914-8-30 Alerts 4, Wandersees 2. 
    1914-9-06 St. Louis 4, Liberty 0. Alerts 5, Packards 2. 
        Mike Maurer, St. Louis, threw 1-hitter. 
    1914-9-13 Alerts 6, St. Louis 3. 

    1914-8-16 pic of Mike Maurer and Frank Barber

    1915-8-15 preview - Detroit Amateur baseball federation - teams playing for who shall represent Detroit against Cleveland. Lists former pros. Says last Sunday the game in Cleveland had 20K fans, and the two pitchers were major leaguers. 
    1915-9-06 games yesterday were rained out - will play today. Davey Jones will play with Euclids. 
    1915-9-07 more rain
    1915-9-13 Cleveland game had more than 50K fans. 
    1915-9-18 preview. 
 
    Blanding, Fritz * p Euclids

    1915-8-15 Grand Laundry 4, S&S 2. Peerless 6, Gurney Giants 3. 
                    Edelweiss 4, Imperials 1. St. Anthony 7, Heart of All 3. 
    1915-8-22 Sheriffs 18, Wayne Amaranths 1. Euclids 11, Liberty 3. 
    1915-8-29 Edelweiss 2, Sheriffs 0. Euclids 4, Peerless 0. 
                      Grand Laundry 5, St. Louis 2.
    1915-9-12 Grand Laundry 3, Edelweiss 0. Grand Laundry 3, Euclids 0. 
                       Edelweiss 7, Studebakers 6. 

    1915-9-19 doubleheader played at Packard Park. 4K ATT. 
            Grand Laundry 1, White Autos 0. White Autos 5, Grand Laundry 3. 
    1915-9-25 at Cleveland. 23K ATT. White Autos 5, Grand Laundry 1. 


   1915-9-18 pics of three Cleveland White Autos stars

    1916-8-13

https://arkbaseball.com/tiki-index.php?page=Julian+Ware Black player who played for Sault Ste. Marie independent team in 1904.
1928-8-12 10K see NYFD beat DFD 
1929-8-26 beat AAA semi-pro team
1930 team pic
        

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