State tournament
1926
Battle Creek Civic Recreation Major League
Detroit Baseball Federation
1929 Tool Shop (AAA)
1947
Blanchard, Bruce 1940 Puritan (class C)
Bowers, Archie MSVL p 1930 Tool Shop
Ebranyi, William 1936-39 D, 1944 AAA - convicted felon 1940 Checker (NBF game)
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.)
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
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
Detroit City League
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
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
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
Terwilliger, Dick p 1930 Battle Creek Postum Postum = Kellogg Cereal related
milb
Cerney, James ss 1927 Kelloggs
milb
Cerney, James ss 1927 Kelloggs
Kimball, Sol aka Kimble 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
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.
Prough, Grover 1b 1927 Kelloggs 1928 Kelloggs 1929 Kellogg
https://www.newspapers.com/search/?city=Battle+Creek&county=Calhoun&date-end=1930&date-start=1930&keyword=%22elmer+miller%22®ion=us-mi
https://www.newspapers.com/search/?city=Battle+Creek&county=Calhoun&date-end=1930&date-start=1930&keyword=%22elmer+miller%22®ion=us-mi
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"
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.
milb:
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
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.
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.
Grand Laundry 5, St. Louis 2.
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
https://arkbaseball.com/tiki-index.php?page=Julian+Ware Black player who played for Sault Ste. Marie independent team in 1904.
https://www.newspapers.com/clippings/?user=6041036%3Arkuske Pic.
Detroit Fire Department
https://www.newspapers.com/clippings/?query=baseball&user=437159%3Adfdsheryl
Detroit Fire Department
https://www.newspapers.com/clippings/?query=baseball&user=437159%3Adfdsheryl
1928-8-12 10K see NYFD beat DFD
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