Honolulu League
1908-7-12 St. Louis College.
Oahu Senior League
1911
1912
1912-11-07 B. 2nd half final batting. Steere Noda hit .517 - 2nd place batter, Dave Desha, hit .370. P.A.C. fielded .948.
1911-7-03 Star. It's the custom for league games to begin a quarter of an hour plus late, but it's a bad custom. New umpires Lani Lemon and C.E. Wayne umpired well yesterday.
1911-5-21 A. Boxes, standings. "at times, it seemed as [though the] grandstand would be kicked to [pieces] by the stamping of the fans." Play by play for the first game, which lasted 14 innings.
Joy caught for the Star club.
"There was one objectionable feature yesterday, and that was the way a few malihinis yelled at some of the players and the umpire. These newcomers should learn that in Hawaii we do not make remarks about the color of any man. We live happily enough together, and men of all nationalities, ereeds and colors manage to respect one another and act as friends. Yesterday some of the would-be witty malihinis, and at least one oldtimer shouted out things to a colored man who plays on one team. It showed the ignorance of the witty (?) grandstand spectators, and annoyed people who take no stock in what color a man is."
Honolulu League
1917
1917-4-22 B. Fort Ruger Giants 4, All-Japanese 1. Asahis 4, Pacifics 2. Nushida/Zenimura with Asahis. Fort Ruger Giants are Oahu-Service League team.
Pacific League
1918 Asahis
1931-4-27 B. 1918 season recap. Rosters with full names - scores listed.
"The Oahu Athletic park was finally dismantled and the baseball center then moved to Moiliili field where the new Pacific league was organized.
The Asahi club was also reorganized and the team joined the Pacific league. The revamped team was coached by the old Asahi catcher, George Y. Murakami. Kenso Nushida, the "boy wonder", was the leading pitcher and Shinichi Yoshikawa was the catcher."
Honolulu League
1921 Chinese Final stats
1922 All-Chinese Final batting Final fielding
1923 Final stats, standings Good batting/fielding - no pitching
1924 Wanderers
1925 9-05 batting
1926 VG Final stats
Duchalsky, Jimmy p solid in III 1922 Braves pitched two games in one day - one with Braves, one with Hawaiian Pines.
1921-10-10 A. Final stats. Inman led with .439. En Sue hit .300. Markham was 3 for 8. Final standings.
1922-9-29 B. Duchalsky led the league with a .419 average - En Sue finished 3rd @ .358. Bushnell and Inman with Waikiki - Inman hit .345.
1924-8-31 A. Batting.
1925-9-05 B. Batting - not quite final. Fred (Denny) Markham, Norman (Juju) Markham, and Herman Markham all with All-Hawaiians.
1926-8-31 B. VG final stats. N. Hoopii, Pat Gleason, Fred Vickery, Ed Low,
1921-8-09 A. En Sue rebuts criticism of Chinese team - says he's been playing for 25 years - they're not in it for money.
1921-10-13 Hilo. En Sue was supposed to accompany the Honolulu boys but at the last moment wasn't able to get away due to business. "En Sue is one of the most popular ball players in the Territory and is to Oahu what Sam Spencer has been to Hawaii."
1922-9-23 B. Writer picks all-star team; with head shots. Johnny Williams selected as pitcher. Duchalsky is one of three utilities.
Honolulu League schedule suspended for one month in middle of season to play Stanford. Locals may have been too good for mainlanders, even. May have been underestimated.
Inter-island series was a big success, financially and sportingly. Will probably become annual. Expenses of $2000 but well worth it.
1922-9-30 A. 12-year-old Henry Oana picks all-star team.
1924-5-30 B. Profile + pic of Kin Luke, Chinese manager - mastermind of local baseball. Kin Luke is 34. Modest, he gives the credit for his team's success to Chinese catcher/field leader Kan Yen, but Luke is in charge and advices Yen.
"Kin Luke was born in Honolulu and attended Kaahumanu and later a private Chinese high school. He played baseball in school. It was in 1910 that he became the captain of the Chinese Athletic Union junior team, which won the title that year in its league. In 1911 he was manager of the Wah Mun school team. Though only a captain of the 1910 team he really handled the management as well, so that he has been managing teams for 14 years. From 1912 to 1916 he continued managing the junior Chinese team with excellent success. In 1916 he joined the senior Chinese team winning pennants for for them in 1918-20-21-22 and 1923. In 1919 the Chinese played only in the first series and then dropped out. Urges Trip
Kin Luke has never been away from the islands and scores of his friends who know his inherent ability as a baseball general have been urging him to go to the mainland and spend some time studying the game from the players' bench. With the grounding that he already has he could easily develop into one of the Chinese by heavy margins, under the American Flag. His judgment is beyond question and his ability to pick the moment for attack is uncanny.Local teams, even when leading the Chinese by heavy margins, never feel safe as they do with other teams. That's because the little Napoleon on the bench is apt to fool them at any moment."
1925-5-12 A. Baseball war between Hawaii and Honolulu Leagues. Honolulu League has deferred taking action on the resignation of the Braves, Wanderers, and Asahis.
Honolulu League have scheduled Braves-Wanderers for second game Sunday, the same day the Braves and Wanderers are supposed to open the Hawaii League season at Moiliili field. Since the two teams have already resigned from the Honolulu League and joined the Hawaii League, it seems the Honolulu League is over-optimistic.
If the Wanderers and Braves don't appear for their Honolulu League game, they may be forced to give up their equities in the circuit, which amount to $600 between them.
President: Fred Patterson.
""The Honolulu league knows full well that the Wanderers and Braves have tendered their resignations to the league to take effect immediately. They also know that the same two teams are scheduled for the opening game of the Hawaii league Sunday at Moiliili field and will be unable to fulfill any other engagement on that date.
"They have made this move to hurt the Wanderers and Braves in the eyes of the public and to forcibly expel them from the league in the event that they fail to appear for their game. It is also intended to prevent them from obtaining their equities in the league when they do finally withdraw."
While the Honolulu Baseball league was in session yesterday, the trustees of the Kauwela Land Trust, controllers of Moiliili field, met and highly endorsed the management of the field by J. Ashman Beaven. Efforts to obtain Moiliili field for Honolulu league games failed when the Kauwela trustees voted to stand back of Beavens and his actions in the conduct of the park.
NO CHANGE AT MOILIILI "There will be no change in the status of Moiliili field," said H Stuart Johnson, trustee, and manager of Honolulu Rapid Transit after the meeting of the board of trustees yesterday.
It is hoped that we can soon get a larger field for baseball and football contests but until then we will operate Moiliili park through Mr. Beaven. We hope to see a new field constructed soon but we feel that until that time we must continue to keep Moiliili park going The park has been operated by Beaven in a satisfactory manner both to ourselves and to the majority of the public."
1926-7-17 B. Kin Luke, All-Chinese manager, will retire - baseball is interfering with his business.
1921-8-28 B. Boxes, standings. Thomas Shibe, half-owner of the Philadelphia Athletics, watched the games at Moliili park on Sunday. Much impressed by Yamashiro.
Inman and Nolan fought in the ninth of the 2nd game, delaying the game 15 minutes. Two husky police officers grabbed Nolan. Inman wore shin guards and chest protector for the fight - some fans say he shouldn't have removed his mask.
The first game lasted 2 hours and 39 minutes and the lights were turned on in the grandstand for the last inning of the second game.
1921-9-25 A. Box.
1922-5-21 B. Boxes, standings.
1922-6-04 A. Boxes. Ed Low beat Duchalsky 3-0 in duel.
1922-9-03 A. Boxes, standings.
1924-8-30 A. Boxes.
1924-8-30 B. Writeup - doubleheader - no boxes. Standings.
Ezra Crane, University of Wisconsin player, has signed with the Wanderers
1924-9-01 B. Writeup but no box. Wanderers have clinched pennant.
1924-9-01 A. Boxes, standings. 4 more games scheduled thru 9-28 but league race is essentially through.
1924-9-07 A. Boxes.
1924-9-14 A. Box.
(1925-7-20 B. No boxes.
1922-10-15 A. All-Chinese 2, All-Hawaiians 1. 15 innings. All-Hawaiians primarily Braves players. En Sue scored both of the Chinese runs.
All-Hawaiian League
All-Hawaiian League
1954
1954-1-17 A. Lines. Opening games.
American Legion League
1970 Holsum Bakers
1971
1971-8-25 A. Holsum Bakers of Honolulu beat Upper Valley of Selah WA 11-2 in opening game of American Legion Western Regional Tournament.
Bankers League
1925 1st National Bank
1927 Final batting
1929 Treasurers
Markham, Fred "Denny" c 1929 Treasurers
1929-7-27 B. Picks all-star team. Pics Denny Markham as 2nd team catcher - "Although he has lost lots of his spryness and batting eye, he was dependable and used uncanny judgment to work his pitcher."
1929-8-11 A. Treasurers team pic, with full names. Denny Markham.
1929-6-12 A. Boxes, standings.
1929-6-22 A. Boxes, standings.
Businessmen Senior League
1939 T.H. Davies
1939-3-24 B. All-star team picked. Goro Moriguchi, Johnny Mintus, Joe Takata,
Chinese League
1930
1939
1948 Crown Life
1949 Rico Giants
1930-4-19 A. Mun Lun is latest team to join. Season will open 4-27. Kin Luke is league president. Senior League players cannot pitch, but a max of two each per team can play other positions.
1948-1-17 B. Kam's Express favored for 1st round. Dan Lau won the 1941 Commercial League batting title.
1948-3-27 B. .200+ batting. Robert Wai, former UCLA player, led league with .485 average (17 for 35).
Crown Life Insurance Giants and Chinese Amateurs (1st and 2nd half winners) will begin three-game championship series at 2:30 today at Cartwright Park. Joe and Tommy Kaulukukui are on the Giants and Dick and Eddie are on the Amateurs. "The quarter [of brothers] are versatile performers, playing all positions, and each a fine hitter."
1949-1-08 B. Will open season 1-09. Preview. Rico Ice Cream consists of last year's champion Crown Life club.
1949-4-11 B. Ching's Contractors hold dinner party after successful season - won 6 and lost 2 to finish 2nd. Have three brothers: James, Thomas, and Albert Kam.
1950-3-10 B. 300+ batting. James Kam is leading with .524 - 11 for 21.
1949-3-13 B. Lines. Standings - Rico Giants have clinched championship with 7-0 record and one game to play.
1940-10-02 B. "The Honolulu Chinese baseball team will now be known as the Honolulu Chinese Athletes, or HCA.
This was the result of a meeting held Sunday at the home of Albert Lai. The decision is the climax of three years of successful campaigning in various baseball leagues of Honolulu under the leadership of Albert Lai, popularly known as "Buck":
In 1939, they captured the championship of the Honolulu Chinese Junior Baseball league and last year were runner-ups in the Chinese Baseball league.
They also placed fourth in the Lanikila league last year in their first venture into this fast league.
The purpose of the club is to "promote and encourage Chinese youths to participate in baseball and other sports." With the development of good Chinese baseball players as its main objective, the club also aspires to be able to place its athletes in competition in other sports such as basketball and tennis eventually."
Commercial League
1920 Hawaiian Pines
1921 Standard Oil Final batting
1922 Hawaiian Pines
1923
1924 Hawaiian Pines
1925
1927
1928
1929 Honolulu Iron Works Boilermakers
1931 Final stats
1934
1935
1939
Duchalsky, Jimmy p solid in III 1922 Hawaiian Pines 1923 Hawaiian Pines
Shaw, Ted p 1930-32 NLB 1935 Mutual Telephones
1921-7-26 B. Final. .275+ and team stats. En Sue hit .281, Bushnell .308. 20 game schedule - 11 teams.
1925-3-14 A. 300+, team stats. A handicap of Standard Oil is its pitchers' staff. It has had to pitch the veteran Johnnie Williams for five straight games.
Charlie En Sue leading league with .533 average (8 for 15)
Liberty House has .950 fielding.
Moriyama, Charlie Luis, Ornellas, Vickery, Bing Whitnell, Camacho
1927-3-05 B. .211+ batting. Harry A. Yim is official scorer. Joseph (Jumping Joe) Gerdes, University of Hawaii outfielder, is leading league with .524 average. Team stats. Louie Camacho.
1929-3-23 B. Commented stats.
1929-4-20 B. Final, commented. Yorio ("Take-take") Waketake, University of Hawaii center fielder, led league with .425 average (17 for 40) and also led with 12 stolen bases. Known for beating out bunts with sheer speed.
Only six homers were hit all season - Arthur Nobriga of the Deans hit two.
Lists league total stats - .936 fielding average.
1930-4-13 A. Called Senior Business Men's League.
1931-4-18 B. 200+ batting, team stats. Mutual Telephone has .966 fielding percentage.
1931-4-24 B. Final stats.
1939-3-24 B. .250+. Al Duarte, Bill Wedemeyer, Ted Shaw, Peppy Moniz. Standings, preview.
1922-5-16 B. Hawaiian Pines team pic. "Honolulu Commercial League"
1927-5-25 B. Hawaiian Pines = Hawaiian Pineapple Co. Won 2 of 3 games on Kauai. Team captain is Lim Young - manager is "Pete" Levey. Had a "swell trip" - the people were kind. Ed Low pitched two games in two days, winning one and losing one.
1928-4-28 B. All-star team picked. Henry Oana at 3b, Ed Low at p.
1927-7-19 B. Praise for Henry Nye and his champion Treasurers. They finished 8-1 - won 2nd pennant in three years.
"Many baseball teams representing business houses obtain financial support from the concern which they represent. Every bit of equipment is purchased for them, entry fees paid, etc. Not so with the Treasurers. They dig up out of their own pockets to keep their athletic teams in competition. This is true of their volleyball and basketball teams as well as the baseball squad. There is no financial return whatever from the games.
Many of the players on the Treasurers team are oldtimers in baseball. Some of them have played fast baseball in years gone by but they cannot quite make the grade in the senior league now. They get a great deal of enjoyment out of playing in the Bankers' league, entering the race just for sport's sake and not for any reward."
1929-4-16 A. All-star team picked. Sammy Guerrero was 2nd best pitcher. "Soldier John" Sanborn, Pines, was also good. "Kaiser" Tanaka best catcher. Arthur Nobriga 2nd best 1b. Teddy Nobriga top 3b.
1934-4-25 Bulletin. League all-star teams selected. Manuel (Kahuku) Rodrigues, Rapid Transit pitching star, was first team pitcher. None compared to him. Called Business Men's League
1935-2-19 B. Rapid Transit team pic, with full names. Coached by Earl (Liko) Vida. Manuel Rodrigues is pitcher.
Pic of coach Vida with manager McClurg.
"Earl Vida, a veteran pitcher of many seasons, showed the boys he can still dish it out when he pitched his Rapid Transit team to a 4-1 victory over the Shell Oil nine Sunday.
Vida pitched the entire 10 innings and held the Shell batters to three hits.
The Rapid Transit catcher says Vida had a world of stuff on the ball, just about as good as he ever twirled. At one time during the game he pitched 27 curve balls in succession, and throughout the game he tossed an underhand ball that had the opposing batters puzzled.
The effectiveness of Vida's pitching is shown not only in the fact that the Shell men got only three hits, but also in that he is credited with striking out 10 men.
Vida is a smart pitcher who takes care of himself. He puts just enough into his pitches to get effectiveness, but uses no unnecessary motions, such as wear down so many less experienced pitchers."
1920-3-28 A. Box. Team pic of Liberty House team, which represents American Factors. Harry A. Yim is its manager. Crowd described as "screaming, howling"
1922-6-04 A. Hawaiian Pines 7, Standard Oil 3. Pines won championship. Season now over. Duchalsky won for Hawaiian Pines - also pitched for Braves that day. Barney Joy umpired.
"The biggest gathering of baseball bugs that ever graced [Makiki field]" attended the game. "Every seat on the stands was taken and the field was spotted like an army of men at rest after a long hike. In addition, there were a hundred automobiles parked around the field."
1923-2-03 A. League opener. Duchalsky beat Ed Low (Liberty House) 2-1 in 14 inning pitchers' duel. Duchalsky struck out 24 batters - Low 16. 1K ATT.
1929-3-10 A. Write-up. "Juju" Markham homered - first homer of season. "Rusty" Blaisdell is Liberty House Merchants MG.
1929-3-10 A. Boxes.
1935-3-03 Star-Bulletin. Descr. Standings.
1935-3-03 Talk, continued. Allen Andrade, Pat Gleason,
1935-3-03 Boxes. Hans Pung, Kerr.
Financiers' League
1921
Hawaii Baseball Congress
1948
1950
1951
1948-3-27 B. "Honolulu's four racial circuits, which wind up their respective schedules over the weekend, boast all the available senior talent in the city."
The "four racial circuits" - Winter, Chinese, Japanese, Puerto Rican - will be represented by their champions at the Hawaii Baseball Congress, which begins 4-04.
Sunday previews for all the different leagues.
1950-4-25 B. VG stats for .350+. 14 teams competed.
1951-4-10 B. Opens tonight with doubleheader at Honolulu Stadium beginning at 6.
1949-4-10 B. Boxes with full names. Injuns 13, Ramblers (Puerto Rican League) 0. University of Hawaii 10, Moiliili (Honolulu AJA) 3. Hirota with U of H - Wally Yonamine with Moiliili.
Hawaii Junior League
1929
1931
1940
Hirakawa, Kiyomi 1936-37 Japan 1931 Aiea Hi-Flyers
1931-4-18 Bulletin. Manuel Cordeiro leading league with .515.
1940-7-09 Star-Advertiser. Averages. L. Kasparovitch is 1-for-3 for Indians (Braves?)
1929-3-10 A. Write-up. Manuel Rodrigues Oana pitched for Jimmy Markham's White Sox.
1929-3-10 A. Boxes.
1929-4-15 A. Write-up, standings. Earl Vida's Gimlets are 5-0. Teddy Nobriga pitched.
1933-3-26 A. Standings, boxes.
Hawaii Puerto Rican League
1947
1949 Ramblers
1971-72 Final stats
1974-75 Final stats Len Sakata 2nd @ .444
Hudak, Ron 1964 Cardinals missed no-hitter by one out
Kasparovitch, Len 1964 Holsum Hawaii
DeSa, Joe 1978 Hui Paani team won 21-0.
Matias, John became starter in MX 1964 Cardinals
1964-2-07 A. 300+ and pitching. Kasparovich is 2-0 with 0.64 ERA.
1964-3-27 A. 400+ and top pitching. Kasparovich is 5-0 with alleged 9.77 but probably 0.77 ERA.
1975-2-21 A. 1st round top stats.
1950-1-04 B. Season opens 1-10 at Lanakila field. Will have ten teams - had eight last year. Johnny Matias' Ramblers are defending champs. Matias is the Ramblers' top pitcher.
On opening day "the usual Puerto Rican orchestras will be on hand for ceremonies at 9."
Teams and managers listed. A few players listed (with full names) for each team.
1964-1-08 B. Season opens 1-10 at Lanakila field.
"The league will dedicate the entire 1964 season to the memory of slain Honolulu policeman Andrew Morales who was a catcher for the Athletics for several seasons."
Managers listed; John Matias Sr. manages the Cardinals and Cris Mancao manages Holsum Hawaii.
Paco M. Rivera is league president.
1947-1-31 B. Season schedule.
1949-3-13 B. Commentary, standings. Johnny "Lujack" Matias, Rambler manager and right-handed pitcher, won his 5th game to take the championship. Henry Matias homered. Ramblers have 7-0 record - three other teams at 4-3.
1952-1-13 A. Writeup for opening games. 3.5K ATT. Johnny Matias won and made three hits.
1964-2-02 A. Lines. Standings.
1975-2-23 A. Box.
1978-1-22 B. Lines.
1978-1-29 B. Writeup. (In addition to lines on prev. page)
1978-2-12 B. Lines.
1978-3-19 B. Lines.
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Hawaii Reach League
Hawaii Reach League
1929 Final batting
Honolulu League
1972
1972-6-11 B. Kuhaulua k'd 17.
Honolulu Spalding League
1925
1926
1934 City and County
1935 Shell Oil Final batting
Kameda, Tadashi p - solid (Ted) "Big Train"
1926-6-27 A. 1st series final batting. Charles Fernandez began with the Doles before moving up to the All-Hawaiians of the Honolulu League (senior division)
1935-8-17 A. Final batting. Four game season. Joe Jacinth, Shell Oil outfielder, won his 2nd straight batting title. Ted Kameda hit .556 (10 for 18.) Collie Souza hit .421 (8 for 19.) Shell Oil hit .351 - Oahu Sugar hit .164.
1935-8-18 A. Shell Oil team pic, with Kameda and Souza.
1935-8-18 A. All-star team picked. Ted Kameda and Goro Moriguchi are first-team pitchers. Kameda pitched every game, striking out 48 batters in four games.
Shell Oil were Robert Irvine's team.
"For three seasons Bob Irvine tried in vain to get in the money in various leagues. He started in '33 with nines in the Businessmen's and Reach leagues with fair success. Last year he again entered the Reach loop and in entering the Spalding league for the first time he bowed to Jimmy Mundon's crew in the last game of the season to lose the title. This year he went at it in a big way with a combine in the Commercial league, but after a strong start, he faded down the home stretch. He then tried his luck in the Reach league again with the same results as before, but when the Spalding loop rolled around he made a determined effort to go places and was rewarded with a trophy for the first time."
1925-8-30 A. Boxes. Henry Oana with Chinese.
1935-8-11 B. Final standings, writeup. Shell Oil beat Mine Craft 27-0. Lefty Fastnacht pitched for Subron Juniors.
Inter-Island Series
1924 Wanderers
1939
1924-9-20 A. Boxes, play by play for innings with scoring.
Thousands of fans at Molilli park in series opener.
1924-9-21 A. Boxes, play by play. Wanderers 7, Maui 6 in title game. Lefty Paschoal, 18-year-old boy wonder of the Valley Island, was the top pitcher of the series, having pitched two brilliant games in two days. Game will be remembered for a long time. Offerson, the "Silent Swede" from Shafter, drove in the winning run.
(1939-9-04 B. Boxes. Kauai 5, Wanderers 3. Kauai 4, Hawaii 3. Maui 3, Wanderers 1. Wanderers were Hawaii League champs - represent Oahu. Keith (Jonah) Cruikshank started for Wanderers in Saturday loss- replaced by Buster North. Pat Gleason at 1b.
Fred (Cowboy) Hasegawa batted 5th and beat Wanderers.
Wanderers eliminated.
1955-7-04 A. Boxes. Red Sox 7, Maui 1. Kauai 4, Asahi 2. Braves 4, Hawaii 3.
International League
1935
1937 Lido
1938 Nippon
1936-5-09 Wanderers have team in league to season youngsters. "Each team represents a different race." Hawaii League realize International League's importance.
1936-5-17 Star-Advertiser. Team pic of George "Rope" Rodrigues' Lido team. W/ full names.
1938-8-27 B. Braves about battery of Sammy Guerrero and Charley Luis - battery for Braves in their big-winning days - will face Nippons of International League in exhibition. Nippons have the Kameda brothers.
1935-5-10 All Puerto-Ricans 10, Wanderers 5. Lido Cafe 3, Hawaii Sons 2.
Bill Inman is Wanderers leader.
1938-8-28 B. The Nippons of the International League beat the Braves 3-1 in an exhibition. It's true that the Nippons made all their runs off the archaic battery of Sammy Guerrero (36) and Charlie Luis (37), but Guerrero pitched well.
Lanakila League (Lanikila)
1940
1940-2-11 A. Writeup. Opening games. James Kam with Buck's Bake Shop.
Oahu Plantation Athletic Association League
1946 Ewa
1949 Ewa
1950
Nozaki, Melvin 1950 Waialua
Jo, Shingo p 1949 Ewa
1946-7-14 A. Waialua team, which finished 3rd, will make a three-day tour of Kauai. Roster listed, with full names.
1949-4-10 B. Boxes with full names.
"Lee's four master traveled more than 350 feet to left field while Itamoto placed the pill in the Tenney swimming pool some 325 feet away."
1948-6-05 B. Ewa won championship. Boxes.
Ewa team pic, with full names.
1950-5-28 B. Box (one of 2), standings. First round closed.
Oahu Plantation Portuguese League
1940
Rainbow Invitational League
1976
1976-10-10 B. Lines.
1976-11-07 B. Lines.
1976-11-07 A. Lines.
Stadium Invitational League
1946
Correa, Eddie (Tuck) p 1946 Amarillo 1946 Waikiki
Hirota, Jun c (Jyun) 1946 Waikiki
Kasparovitch, Len 1946 Truckers
Mancao, Cris p 1961 PCL 1946 Waipahu
Moriguchi, Goro 1946 Waikiki
1946-1-20 B. Writeup. Cowboy Hasegawa, Melvin Nozaki, a few Kaulukuis.
Winter League
1935 Final standings
1937 Mint Cafe
1947 Maid-Rites
1948
1950
1954
Azevedo, Bill .296 1946 PION 1947 Trojans 1948 Maid Rites
Correa, Eddie (Tuck) p 1946 Amarillo 1948 Acme "Tuckalo"
Hirota, Jun c (Jyun) 1947
Kasparovitch, Len 1948 Maid Rites is 6-2 1954 Petrous Service
Mancao, Cris p 1961 PCL 1954 Royal Beer
Neves, Ernie if "Sparky" 1947 Truckers 1954 Royal Beer
North, Herbert "Buster" p 1936 Japan
Souza, Charles (Collie) 1946 Amarillo 1948 Truckers
Ching, Percy if 1948 W&F Plumbing
1937-3-28 Advertiser. All-star teams picked. Lots of good info. Albert Nobrega and Johnny Freitas were coach and manager of Mint Cafe. Mint Cafe were formerly the Kalihi-ukas. Coconut Grove Inn was led by Carl Machado.
1937-4-10 B. Buster North will pitch for Wanderers. Pitched creditably in the Winter League conducted by the Braves management.
1947-1-31 B. Team pic of Kalihi Pirates, Wanderers' farm club.
1947-3-07 B. Truckers are favored to win title. MG Jimmy Wasa (2b) and Ernie (Sparky) Neves are the top island double play combination.
1948-3-27 B. Roster picked for Winter League All-Stars, which will compete in Hawaii Baseball Congress. Players listed, with full names.
League managers are: Len Kasparovitch (Maid Rites), Sparky Neves (Acme), Joe Correa (Dragons), Russian Cabral (Plumbers), Russ Vierra (Cardinals), and Walter (Dutchy) Olsen (Truckers.)
1950-2-24 B. Indians team pic. Ernie Neves is MG; Peppy Moniz is coach.
1935-3-03 Star-Bulletin. 3K ATT. Manuel (Kahuku) Rodrigues pitched for Punahou and Andrade played right field. Box.
1935-3-03 Talk, continued.
1937-1-24 Bulletin. Lines. "Buster" North pitched for Coconut Grove Inn.
1937-2-21 Advertiser. Standings, talk. Johnny Sanborn is Kaimuki manager. Leonard (Buck Lai) Espinda is pitcher.
1937-2-21 Boxes. George "Rope" Rodrigues, Lido Cafe coach, celebrates his 33rd birthday today. Rodrigues also leads the Pipe-Electric Shop team of the Pearl Harbor Civilian League.
1947-2-05 B. Brief writeup.
1947-2-05 A. Boxes. Boxes have full names.
1947-2-23 A. Boxes, standings. Goro Moriguchi with Vets.
1949-3-13 B. Writeup, standings.
1954-1-17 A. Opening games. Lines. Pic.
Interscholastic League
1927
1934
1949
1950
1972
Castillo, Len (called Ben by BR, incorrectly) 1972 Iolani
Luna, Dawin p St. Louis
Matsuoka, Doug p (Mitsuo) 1949-50 Iolani
1927-6-03 B. Final batting. Henry Oana, St. Louis Cardinals 3b, led league with .485 average (16 for 33)
1934-4-30 Batting/
1949-5-24 B. Final stats. Final standings, box. 3K ATT, largest of season.
1950-5-19 B. Final stats
1934-5-22 All-star team picked. St. Louis team has won 22 straight games going back to 1932.
1972-6-09 B. Gipaya signs pro contract with Pirates. Pic. Had a 1-3 record in three seasons with St. Louis.
1927-5-03 B. Sambo Takahashi Mills catcher - Bozo Wakabayashi McKinley pitcher. Judge Desha is leader of the Kamehameha Warriors.
1927-5-03 A. Mid-Pacific team pic.
1927-5-24 B. "Lefty" Paschoal pitched for St. Louis College. Oana at 2b, Nobriga in left. Kumulae pitched for Punahou.
1929-5-24 A. Box.
1972-3-28 B. Lines. Pic of Len Castillo covering home on play at plate.
1941-4-18 A. St. Louis College team pic, with full names.
1941-5-21 A. St. Louis College team pic, with full names. Harry Castro, Herman Wedemeyer.
Oahu Interscholastic Association
1971
1971-4-28 B. All-star first team picked - pics incl. of Lenn Sakata, who hit .385 for Kalani. All but one player is Japanese.
State High School Tournament
begin:
1959 Baldwin Bears
1962
1972
1973-5-08 B. Describes three outstanding performances in the 15 years of the tournament's history. Glenn Oura, chunky Baldwin right hander, started and completed all three games for the Bears in 1959. The next year, he threw a one-hitter against Ka'u, a no-hitter against Kauai, and pitched 11.2 innings to beat St. Louis in the title game. 51.2 innings, 29 hits, and six earned runs in two years.
And that it was why no pitcher is allowed to pitch more than 15 innings in the three-day tournament anymore.
Oura later starred as infielder at Boise State.
Len Castillo threw 19K 2-hitter last year.
1962-5-18 B. 1b-p John Matias hit four homers for Farrington Governors. Matias pic. 3K ATT. One box.
1972-4-27 B. Michael Gipaya k'd 16 in his first complete game of his high school career. Gipaya pic. Tournament record is believed to be 19K, set by Len Castillo last year.
1972-4-27 A. Gipaya was 0-0 with "astronomical" ERA in regular season, but solved his control problems at a good time.
1905-11-03 Gazette. Ewa team will play Diamond Heads at Kapiolani Park next Sunday.
"All the plantations down Ewa way swear by the team and are willing to back the nine for large chunks of currency which will be brought to town on drays drawn by mules on Saturday next."
Tours of other islands
1940-7-03 Hilo. All-Chinese arrive for annual 4th of July games v. Hilo Senior League teams. Will play four games. All-Chinese team pic, with full names.
1946-7-03 Hilo. Braves will play doubleheader on fourth of July. Hilo's interisland Fourth of July baseball series, dormant during the four war years, will rise again.
1946-7-04 Hilo. Braves took both ends of doubleheader before 2500 paying customers. No boxes.
1954-1-11 Hilo. Wally Yonamine All-Stars win 9-0 - Charley Luis and Harry Kitamura combine for no-hitter of Hawaii All-Stars.
Armed forces
https://chevronsanddiamonds.org/2023/11/14/victory-dive-navy-baseball-in-paradise-through-championships-and-tragedy/
VG - about Subron Four - has good pics, full names - good pic of George "Nig" Henry.
VG - about Subron Four - has good pics, full names - good pic of George "Nig" Henry.
Let go of "Dolphins" nickname in favor of "Sub Pac" in 1948.
The deserter player was with them - detailed account.
https://studiogaryc.com/2023/03/10/dutch-raffeis/ Dutch Raffeis - kinda legendary - also in Panama
Armed Forces League
1953
1953-8-05 A. Writeup, standings. SubPac and Coast Guard tied at 36-14 with four games left to play.
Army Championship Series
1924
1924-9-10 Play by play, box. Series tied 2-2. Louis Camacho and En Sue umpire.
Hawaiian Army Departmental Series
1935
1940 Hickam Field
1941 Hickam Field
1941-9-13 A. Series stats. Catcher Salamone with 11th Group is not NYC Bill Salamone. Pics from game #3.
1935-8-17 A. Big box. 64th Coast Artillery 9, 11th Field Artillery 7. 1st game of series.
1935-8-20 A. Big box. 64th Coast Artillery (Shafter) 8, 11th Field Artillery (Dragons) 5.
Wally Cyr pitched in relief - hit three-run homer in 13th to win game.
Detailed play by play.
"Rimming bleachers converted beautiful Chickamauga Park into an expansive green bowl that bulged with six thousand fans turned out to witness the army's classic. There seems to be something about Chickamauga Park, scene of the historic 18-inning battle of 1934, that brings out the extra innings in Fort Shafter."
64th CA, "Shafter's pride and joy," won right to play Subron Four for service championship.
1935-8-20 Cyr pitched 13.1 of the 22 innings for the 64th CA. If Shafter fans had anything to say about it, Cyr would be sergeant by the end of the week.
1935-8-17 Account continued. Played called Nigger Allen. Lefty Cyr took "complete control" of game in relief.
" 'No betting allowed' said the sign but a good joke is appreciated in any place."
1941-9-06 A. 11th Group Grey Geese (Hickam Field) 1, Schofield Staff Tigers 0. 10 innings - 6K ATT - Honolulu Stadium. 3rd and final game of series.
Army-Navy (Service Championship Series)
1921
1935
1941
1921-10-16 A. Series stats.
1937-9-03 A. Preview - Subron Four will meet 27th Infantry Wolfhounds from Schofield in the first game of the series, tomorrow afternoon at Honolulu Stadium.
VG - profiles of Subron Four players. Subron Four stats during Sector-Navy League season - batted .326 and fielded .961.
1941-9-07 A. Slight preview - dates of games.
1924-10-01 A. Army 5, Navy 0. Velinski no-hit Navy. 3rd game of service championship series. Play by play.
1935-9-07 Navy 1, Army 0. Paul Girard, who received his schooling in Bangor ME, won for Navy. 4.5K ATT.
The Navy has beat the Army for the military championship of Hawaii ten straight years.
1941-9-13 A. Subron Four 6, Hickam Field Grey Geese 3. Nig Henry won for Subron. Series tied 1-1.
1941-9-13 A. Box.
Schofield
1924-8-30 A. Schofield 9, All-Hawaiians 3. Good pics of all Schofield players.
Central Pacific Area (CPA) Service League
1944 Final batting
1944-9-03 A. Final batting. Ferris Fain led with .385, Bob Dillinger was 2nd with .362, and Daro Lodigiani 3rd with .351. All played with the 7th AAF Forces. Wally Judnich led league in homers with 14 (in 21 games) - Barney McCoskey was 2nd with 12 (in 38 games). Joe Gordon hit .386 in 21 games.
1944-9-03 A. Ferris Fain and Walt Judnich pics. 7th AAF will play Aiea Hospital in the league championship series.
Players mentioned for Navy All-Star team - lots of big leaguers.
Sector-Navy League
1935 Final standings
1936 Subron Four
1937 Final stats
1941
1937-6-27 A. 250+, undefeated pitchers, team stats.
1935-9-12 Hilo. Profile of Subron Four stars. George (Nig) Henry is the oldest - 33. From San Antonio TX. Played first service ball with U.S.S. New Mexico in 1926 - won battle fleet championship in 1926, and Henry was selected all-fleet pitcher. Played with New Mexico for six years and helped beat the San Diego Fleet Air team - "accomplished for the first time in ten years by any nine."
Paul (Lefty) Girard is 24 - from Sanford ME. Is 16-3 in two years.
etc.
Pic of Subron Four outfielders.
Team will play here 9-14 and 9-15 in the Island of Hawaii welfare series.
1936-9-14 A. Subron Four team pic, with full names. John Halloran's Subron Four won service championship for 11th straight year - took two out of three games from Ft. Shafter, army champs. Leo (Lefty) Girard, George (Nig) Henry.
1941-9-13 A. Subron Four stats
1935-7-03 B. Nig Henry beat Johnny Mintus of Staff 11-1 - gave up just one hit and walked none with his " 'slow motion' style of delivery."
Bartula, Staff, bats left.
1935-7-24 B. Righty Johnny Mintus struck out 19 and allowed only one hit and one walk for Staff v. Luke Field.
1935-8-10 B. Final standings, write-up. Final standings for Sector-Army, which has same teams and w-ls add up to .500 - don't know what that is.
Schofield League
1924
1925 Final stats
1935 11th F.A.
Brown, Rolland .345 1929 PIED
1924-8-02 B. 200+ batting. Rolland Brown leading league with .473 average for 27th Infantry.
1925-8-05 A. Rolland Brown led Post League with .423 average.
1926-7-17 B. Batting.
1937-8-10 A. Stats. Johnny Riddle of the 8th F.A. looks like the best of the recent arrivals. Schofield Barracks League.
1935-8-07 B. Preview. Standings. 11th F.A. has clinched the championship - has 21-3 record. 10 teams in league. 11th F.A. has won 21 straight games.
1938-8-27 B. All-star team picked.
Schofield Barracks Wheeler Field (North Sector) League
1941
1973-74 Pirates
1974-75
1975-2-09 Hilo. Lines. Dennis Nishimaya threw no-hitter for Asahis. A's are 9-0 with three games to play.
Hilo
Hilo Commercial League
Hilo Commercial League
1929
1928-2-24 A. Season opens 2-26. Tuna Brown, Frank Kinneson (former Idaho U. catcher), etc. with County team.
Hilo Pacific League
1928
1928-4-28 B. League officers. Frank Ishii of Asahi.
Hilo Senior League
1926 Final batting
1940
1952
Ladra, Jack 1952
1912-8-05 A. Hilo league standings. Eichi Yamashiro, Oahu League player, was somehow allowed to play in a game last week.
1917-7-22 Hilo. VG - on old time players. Only one still playing is Sam Spencer. Standings, good talk. 25th Infantry will play.
1924-9-08 Hilo, Fan-picked teams. Two players called "Fat."
1926-8-11 Hilo. Final batting. Tuna Brown of the Hawaiis won the J.B. Medeiros trophy for the highest average, with a mark of .344.
Desha; George Medeiros.
1940-7-03 Hilo. All-Chinese arrive for annual 4th of July games v. Hilo Senior League teams. Will play four games. All-Chinese team pic, with full names.
1927-5-29 Opening day - w/ Eddie and Alex Desha.
Kauai League
1937
1938 Makaweli Indians
1937-8-10 A. Brief game report.
1938-8-16 B. Team and individual pics of Pono team. With full names. Ken Tsunehiro. Pitcher Smoky Gonsalves held the Honolulu Braves to two hits and one run on July Fourth.
Pono team will play three games in Oahu around 8-23.
1938-8-29 Albert Nahale'a's Makaweli Indians were champions and outstanding team. Their pitcher, Cowboy Hasegawa, was 9-1 and the led the league with a .489 average (22 for 45). "He hurls straight ball, with few hooks and occasional change of pace."
Members of championship team listed, with full names and batting/fielding.
Pono finished 2nd in league.
https://discovernikkei.org/en/resources/military/13873/?page=634&service_branch=army Ken Tsunehiro in 442nd Regiment.
Maui
1901-10-06 A. Line - one of best games ever played on island. 12 inning tie.
Maui
1901-10-06 A. Line - one of best games ever played on island. 12 inning tie.
1902-7-13 B. Commentary, lineups. There is league.
(1902-10-06 B. Wailuku Married Men beat Kahului Married Men
(1903-5-25 B. Game preview. Betting is most of the fun - players would give up the game if it were disallowed.
1909-6-25 B. Will make trip to Maui - with Joy, Soares, etc.
Maui League
1913 Kahului
1921
1921-11-18 Top stats. Joe Silva dominated - hit .550 and stole 24 bases in 14 games.
1913-10-28 Gazette. Good team pic of Kahului, with players listed. Recently won the championship by beating the Morning Stars in a series, two games to one.
1913-6-21 Maui. Kahului and Stars tied for 1st at the end of the 1st series @ 6-2. Honolulu players will not play on 7-04.
1913-6-21 Maui. Contin. Box.
Maui Japanese League
1927 Final batting
1928-29
1928-2-19 A. Boxes, standings. Three Horios, K., H., and N.
1928-4-01 A. Box. Paia beat Kahului 4-3 in a playoff game to decide the championship of the 2nd round. Three Horios with Paia.
1929-1-05) B. Boxes. Two Horios, H. and N.
Maui Senior League
1928 Paia
1929
1938
1928-8-30 B. H. Horio broke his arm when the crank of a car gave away as he was trying to tow it. The Paias will be without his valuable services for a long time.
1938-8-29 Championship undecided but regular season closed - .250+ batting.
(1929-7-04 B. Boxes, standings.
1928-10-11 B. J.A.C. 3, Paia 3. 3rd game of island championship series - series is tied 1-1-1. Game was played at the Eleventh Maui Fair.
1928-10-21 B. Paia 12, Wailuku J.A.C. 7. Deciding championship series Paia still has three Horios. Paia won the season's first round and J.A.C. won the second.
I'm 97% sure K. Horio is Jimmy Horio - if that's true, then this is the last game I can find that he played in Hawaii before departing to CA.
(1928-11-06 B. All-Chinese 9, Paia 3. H. Horio back in line-up. Wailuku 6, Chinese 2. Boxes.
1924-7-30 B. Team pic. Coming here to play for Japanese world championship.
1924-7-30 Profiles of FAC players.
1924-9-09 B. FAC team pic.
1924-12-11 Scores and batteries for every game in tour of Japan.
1925-3-14 San Jose Asahis expected to play this year. Zenimura originated the idea of series for Japanese title.
1927-8-29 Team pic.
1924-9-14 A. Asahi 4, Fresno 2. Asahi 5, Fresno 4. Boxes.
1914-5-25 Cool action pic from Keio-P.A.C. game.
1916-4-05 B. Pic of K. Kato, Waseda ss. 100 fans show up for Waseda's first workout.
1921-4-08 Waseda team pic.
1921-4-13 B. Wasedas banquet by Asahis. Pic of pitcher Matsumoto.
1928-7-03 Keio-Braves preview. Braves Coach George Haneberg heard the Keio team cannot hit a fast curve ball pitcher - therefore Oana will start tomorrow. The Keios played before 7K on Sat and 6K on Sun.
1938-7-14 B. Waseda averages, roster preview.
1941-5-21 A. Meiji series schedule set.
(1925-7-20 B. Meiji 7, Filipinos 0. Meiji 1, Wanderers 0. Meiji 4, Asahis 2 - only 2nd game Asahis have lost this season.
No boxes.
1928-7-04 B. Keio 2, Braves 1. 10K howling fans, chiefly Japanese.
Ads for upcoming games, with admission prices.
1929-6-23 A. California Bears schedule - 11 games, beginning 7-04. Roster listed - some player profiles.
1929-7-06 A. California 12, Elks 4.
1916-2-26 A. 25th Infantry 2, San Francisco Olympics 1. Olympics' farewell game. Olympics have Eddie Benn, Chauncey Tramutolo. Olympics team pic.
1917-2-24 A. Portland Beavers team pic.
1931-10-20 B. Preview of Herb Hunter's Stars v. local stars - lineups listed, with full names. Pics of the major leaguers. Jakucki, Yoshio Tanaka, Earl Vida, with Hawaiians.
1934-10-25 American League All-Stars 8, Hawaii 1. 9K ATT. Play by play. Pics. Babe Ruth was 2 for 4 and Gehrig homered.
https://sabr.org/journal/article/gentle-black-giants-negro-leaguers-in-japan-philadelphia-royal-giants-tour-1927/ Only five of the players from the Royal Giants' entry in the CWL went on tour; bolstered by L.A. White Sox, including John Riddle, who attended University of Southern California.
Rogan Robert Fagen, former 25th Infantry players, later barnstormed with Royal Giants.
"It is worth noting that this was not Yokozawa’s first interaction with Black ballplayers. He was a member of the championship ( University team in 1923, earning the right to tour Hawaii and the mainland United States in 1924. During their four- month goodwill tour, Meiji competed against semipro and college teams—including the historically Black college Howard University."
Biz Mackey hit first ever homer over fence in Meiji Jingu Stadium.
Rap Dixon hit longest ball ever hit in Koshien - a triple off the center field wall, 420 feet away. Japanese officials commemorated hit with white mark on fence.
White major league touring teams were sometimes silly, disdainful - but Royal Giants stayed professional and competitive. They didn't play their hardest - wanted to keep games close - but acted like they were.
Finished with 11-game tour of Hawaii. Beat Standard Oil team with Johnnie Williams 7-3.
All-Chinese and Honolulu Braves beat the Royal Giants - the only two losses the Royal Giants suffered in their entire tour.
"Goodwin’s club received an offer to return to Hawaii the following year at the request of Kanichi Takizawa, an official with the Oahu Plantation Japanese Baseball League, and president and publisher of Sports of Hawaii, a Japanese monthly magazine devoted to athletics.
Shortstop John Riddle also received an offer to return to Hawaii, but not for baseball. A professional football team in Hawaii invited him to return, and even added an incentive to put his degree from the University of Southern California to work with a position in an architect’s office."
O'Neal Pullen toured Hawaii with Cleveland Royal Giants in 1928 and Pullen Royal Giants in 1929 - combined record of 29-14-1.
Lists all scores of 1927 tour.
1927-7-01 Royal Giants tour stats.
1927-7-02 A. Royal Giants say that baseball in Hawaii is much stronger than in Japan.
1928-7-19 B. Roster listed - thumbnail sketch of every player. Fagen and Dobie Moore were with 25th Infantry.
1929-4-18 A. Pullen Giants team and indiv pics.
1934-3-03 B. Philadelphia Royal Giants team pic.
1946-10-01 Cincinnati Crescents team pic. Abe Saperstein's team.
1929-4-17 A. Pullen Giants 3, University of Hawaii 1. 11 innings.
1931-5-31 B. Boxes. Asahis 2, Royal Giants 1. Kaiser Tanaka's homer gave Asahis win. Royal Giants 5, Braves 4.
1946-9-24 B. Write-up. Crescents 6, Hawaiis 3. 3.5K ATT. Jesse Owens gave exhibition. Wally Cyr was the losing pitcher. Cyr gave up grand slam hit to section five - relieved by Cowboy Hasegawa.
1928-7-18 B. Keio University 11, Maui Japanese (picked nine) 4. 4K ATT.
(1928-7-21 Hilo. Gives Maui scores - Keio has arrived. Pics of Keio Coach H. Koshimoto, born in Hawaii, and manager H. Nalada, who was unable to make the trip from Honolulu to Hilo.
Hawaiian Travelers
Alfred Yap and Fred Markham stayed on the mainland to play ball for play and continue their education, before eventually returning to Hawaii. Apau Kau left his new home and job in Philadelphia and died in WWI.
All-Hawaiians
https://www.mocanyc.org/collections/stories/buck-lai-early-chinese-american-baseball-player/ Some pics
1935-3-31 Benefit to raise funds to buy a bus so the All-Hawaiians can drive around the USA. Earl Vida's Oahu Stars 13, Buck Lai's Stars 4. 2.5K ATT.
https://www.mocanyc.org/collections/stories/buck-lai-early-chinese-american-baseball-player/ Some pics
1935-3-31 Benefit to raise funds to buy a bus so the All-Hawaiians can drive around the USA. Earl Vida's Oahu Stars 13, Buck Lai's Stars 4. 2.5K ATT.
Old-timers' game before - Inman's Killers v. En Sue's Crushers.
Pics: Albert Holt talking with Johnny Kerr, Buck Lai's battery; Bill Inman; old-timers wearing old uniforms like St. Louis and three different All-Chinese uniforms.
1935-5-18
1935-6-05 Stats, Kerr letter + pic.
1935-6-27 Batting, pitching. Hans Pung. Lost 10-5 to Homestead Grays. Johnny Kerr writes - is Star-Bulletin correspondent.
1935-5-18
1935-6-05 Stats, Kerr letter + pic.
1935-6-27 Batting, pitching. Hans Pung. Lost 10-5 to Homestead Grays. Johnny Kerr writes - is Star-Bulletin correspondent.
1935-7-19 In NY.
1935-9-08 Earl Vida squawks against Lai.
1935-9-30 Final batting. Johnny Kerr has hit .370 in 107 games, Walter Rodrigues .349, Buck Lai Jr. .286 in 18 games, Buck Lai Sr. .276 in 30 games. Richard (Peppy) Moniz has hit most homers, with 15.
1935-9-30 Final batting. Johnny Kerr has hit .370 in 107 games, Walter Rodrigues .349, Buck Lai Jr. .286 in 18 games, Buck Lai Sr. .276 in 30 games. Richard (Peppy) Moniz has hit most homers, with 15.
1935-10-04 All-Hawaiians pic at return.
1935-10-05 Final batting and pitching. Team had 47-77 record.
1935-10-09 A. "BUCK LAI TIN REVEALS LOW DOWN ON MAINLAND TRIP
WILLIAM (BUCK) LAI TIN, manager of the All-Hawaii baseball team which recently returned from a six months' invasion of the Mainland, paid the 'Tiser sports sanctum a visit yesterday and revealed much that has not been written about the trip While no money was lost on the venture and very little made, Buck believes with a little better luck and a bit more enthusiasm on the part of the team, the trip would have paid a neat profit... A whole gang of money games were rained out... Buck was disappointed in many of the players...The team was inconsistent... One day they looked like a real ball club and embarrassed him the next... Some of the boys' attitude was wrong and at times he was forced to impose fines... He picked up two outsiders on the trip, a catcher and another pitche.
Buck himself got a big laugh over the batting average appearing in the afternoon paper... "We didn't keep a scorebook for the last three months of the trip," said Buck... "The boys fought every night for the first two months over hits and errors so we discontinued keeping score after the first two months and there is no way that anyone could have figured averages because we left almost immediately after most games and no one even got to see the newspaper reports of the games... They had me playing in 30 games whereas I hardly played in more than 10," he went on.... Buck returned with the team because his mother was ill and he plans to return to the Mainland, possibly on the Mariposa on October 28, the same ship that takes the University of Hawaii football team to the Coast He will be back next February to round up another team The bus used by the All-Hawaii team on their trip is on jacks in Los Angeles and will be used again next year... "We received a world of publicity for the Islands," said Buck... "Everywhere we went, huge crowds gathered around our bus," he went on... Buck was loud in praise of the work of Walter (Rope) Rodrigues and Wataru "Wop" Shinagawa.
SPEAKING of Earl Vida's charge that Buck had given him a raw deal, Lai Tin produced a letter which showed that it was no one's fault but Earl's that he did not join the team. The only way that Vida could have hooked up with the squad was to have Buck pay the transportation expenses of Earl and his wife and daughter to the East and back which would have run over $500 for one month's services... This was out of the question and Earl himself suggested that Buck forget about him."
1935-10-31 Investigation into amateur status - several All-Hawaiians are now playing in Senior Football League. Want to know if salaries were paid - also, players were on same team as Buck Lai Sr. - a professional.
1936-2-04 Manila. Hawaiian All-Stars arriving. Pic of four Calamba stars who will oppose them.
1936-5-23 Spokane Chronicle. Hawaiian All-Stars won 44 of 55 games in trip to orient. Kahuka was 18-2 with 10 shutouts; Kunihisa stole 48 bases. Will play doubleheader on Sunday v. Eastern Washington League teams.
1936-5-26 Butte. Preview. Kunihisa nvg pic.
1936-8-19 Kalamazoo. Shipp (Ia) Lo pic.
1936-8-21 Grand Haven MI. Preview. Good pics of Buck Lai and Al "Frisco" Nalua.
1936-5-24 Spokane Chronicle. Boxes. Split doubleheader with Eastern Washington League teams.
1947-7-30 Hilo. Hawaiian All-Stars beat the Ogden All-Stars 8-2 and the Provo Timps, Utah Industrial League leaders, 8-0. Lines. Bill Azevedo pitched for the All-Stars.
Honolulu Hawaiians
1948-6-10 B. Team pic, with full names. About to leave for ten-month tour of mainland.
1949-6-29 Pic + profile of Dick Kitamura, on last year's Honolulu Hawaiians team, now with the baseball Globetrotters. Praise for Abe Saperstein.
National Baseball Congress
1947
1950
1947-9-04 Two All-Hawaiian Stars named among best prospects for organized ball - none named to all-tournament team.
1950-7-17 Roster listed, with full names. 11 of the 14 players are Braves.
1932-12-22 Asahis will tour the Philippines.
Global Semi-Pro World Series
Global Semi-Pro World Series
1955
1955-10-03 Hawaii Red Sox just returned - pics, including of Kasparovitch. Peanuts Kunihisa managed team. Lost to Boeing Bombers of Wichita in 11-inning title game.
Will play All-Kanebo of Japan in three-game series. All-Kanebo was also in the tournament but the two teams did not face each other.
Territorial Global Tournament
1955
1956
1957 Asahis
1957-9-03 B. "This was without a doubt the best of the three Global series that have been played in Hawaii and to Iron Maehara, older brother of Angel, Asahis owner, and his excellent committee, must go credit for the success.
This was an outstanding tournament in every respect. Six games were run off in three days at the Kahului Fairgrounds with clock-like precision. Not one of them required two hours to reach completion, a great record in these days when even major league games are extended beyond the two-hour limit.
There were no rhubarbs, only a few minor beefs, which is a tribute to the capabilities of the fine corps of umpires which Iron Maehara had assembled.
Maehara, president of the Maui Senior League; his chief aide, Junso Seno, director of the Maui Recreation Council, and the host of Maui's community-minded people who served on the committee, are to be congratulated for a job well done.
The one big factor in Maui's great baseball success this year is the community support. Iron told us that the Maui Senior League had its best season in 10 years, that its financial support was so good that he was able to return the entry fee to the six member teams.
Maehara and his committee didn't leave attendance to chance. They went out and sold enough full-series tickets in advance that they didn't have to worry about the gate sale.
Evidence of this is Maehara's comment yesterday morn- ing when we asked him what would happen if rain (and it was a decidedly overcast morning) would prevent the championship game from being played. He said: "Well, we'll just move it to a dry area. We don't have to worry about the gate sale. We can move it to an open park and still not lose."
We don't know how close the balloting for the outstanding player award turned out to be but it must have been mighty close. For our money it was a dead heat between Len Kasparovitch, who pitched and won three games, and Al Ishimaru, hitting star of the series. Kaspy won it and we congratulate him."
He did a great job. He hurled 14 innings wherein he did not give up an earned run. He threw five innings Saturday against the Maui All-Stars, and came back Sunday to throw seven pitches in retiring three men in the ninth as the Asahis squeezed out a 3-2 victory over the Wailuku Cardinals.
In yesterday's finals he allowed only two hits and required only 67 pitches in setting Hilo down in eight innings. He allowed only one base on balls in the title game.
Except for that walk he never had a ball count of more than two on any batter.
He retired 19 men in succession after a first-inning fielding lapse brought Hilo an unearned run. Not until he walked Burt Nose in the seventh did he allow a Hilo man to reach base after two had gained that distinction in the opening frame. Then in the ninth he gave up his second hit of the game to Arsan Mendonca.
That's not perfect pitching but it comes mighty close to perfection.
Ishimaru was the slugging star of the series. He collected six hits, three of them home runs. He batted in seven runs finishing with a batting average of .462, which we venture I will be the top mark of the series. We'll wait correction on that guess from Wayne Tanaka, able statistician of the series, who was unable to provide us with final figures at this writing.
Ishimaru had a terrific slugging average of 1.154 on three homers and three singles in 13 trips to the plate.
There's no doubt about which game was the most dramatic of the seven-game tournament. It was Honolulu's 3-2 victory over Wailuku Sunday, wherein Dick Kitamura, Asahis manager, laid down a bunt that brought Jyun Hirota home from third with the winning marker. That play almost backfired.
Kitamura had signaled the bunt but apparently Hirota didn't get the signal. Kitamura took a ball, then tried to bunt. The attempt was fouled off and a good thing it was for Hirota stayed on third.
On the third pitch, Kitamura bunted just out of the reach of the pitcher and Hirota came flying home. Bear Ono, Wailuku first baseman, scooped up the ball and threw home but too late to get Hirota.
The longest throw for a putout in the series came yesterday. With two out and Kashiwaeda on second, Russian Cabral blasted a double to the left field fence. First baseman Burt Nose called for the ball and stepped on first base. Cabral was called out for missing the bag.
Hawaii Bids for 1958 Tournament
The 1958 tournament will be played either in Hilo or Honolulu. Big Island baseball people have said they will make a strong bid for the series. There's a strong possibility that the sponsoring Island will have to meet a $1,000 guarantee instead of the $750 made by Maui this year.
In this year's tournament the Honolulu Asahis got $300, the Hilo Asahis $200 and third-place Wailuku drew down $100. The other $150 went for administrative expenses.
Earle K. Vida, Global commissioner in Hawaii, said he would not make a decision on the 1958 tournament site for several months.
To all those who had a part in the tournament, especially Iron Maehara, and to all those who made our stay on Maui a very enjoyable one, our sincerest appreciation."
Southern California semi-pro
"SINCE HAWAII didn’t have anything more advanced than sandlot and factory league teams, and the chance of being spotted by a major league scout was slim-to-none, Jimmy decided to try his luck in Southern California. Los Angeles had a thriving Japanese community and, like every other ethnic enclave in the country, the Japanese had their own baseball teams. Horio got a job as a truck driver and played a season with a lower-tier team sponsored by the Grand Central Market. When the Grand Centrals met the L.A. Nippons, California’s best Japanese team, for the 1930 Southern California Japanese League title, the Nippons invited Horio to join them."
See Nisei page
Vida pitched briefly with M.J.B. Koffee Kids in CASL. 1935-7-21
1935-1-16 Napa. "Cameraman Clyde De Vinna, of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, is one of the unsung humanitarians of Hollywood.
His unusual hobby, only recently disclosed, is to bring children from all over the world to live in his Hollywood home and to be educated at his expense.
He now has an international family of four and expects another within a short time.
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Another of De Vinna's proteges is Clarence Kumalae, 22-year-old Hawaiian boy, who has been living in the cameraman's home for six years. During the baseball season, young Kumalae pitches for the Omaha Packers."
1935-9-04 "Several baseball authorities on the western sea border stated that Henry Oana, now with Syracuse, as the "best prospect to hit the Pacific Coast league." But most of them agreed, reported Vida, that Oana cared more for off diamond activities than on it, the result being inevitable.
Local senior league players, in the opinion of Vida, are just as good as the best semi pros in California. He cites himself as an example. While around San Francisco and Los Angeles, Vida pitched seven games, winning six of them.
The game he lost was the last he worked and, curiously enough, Vida lost to a former Honolulu boy, Herbert (Buster) North, a musician, who has developed into a real chucker. North hurled for the Paramount Cubs.
WISH TO COME HERE ON PERCENTAGE
Vida met Clarence Kumalae, former Punahou southpaw heaver. He said that Kumalae is going strong as a member of the Santa Monica Merchants of the Southern California association.
"The members of this league," informs Earl, "as well as those in the California State league, are anxious to perform here. They are willing to work on percentage basis. They also wish to encounter Buck Lai Tin's All-Hawaiis when that team comes west on its journey back to the islands.
Many former major leaguers adorn uniforms in the Southern California circuit. The Meusel boys, he reported, are still good, especially in the hitting department.
A local team, playing primarily in California against semi pro teams, will be a profitable venture, Vida thinks."
1935-10-05 Sir Guy Standing, Paramount actor, gives $5 to any Paramount Cub who homers. Buster North homered twice last Sunday - got two crisp $5 bills.
1935-12-07 Paramount is using Buster North as a Chinese even though he's Hawaiian.
James Lono Duchalsky
Duchalsky, Jimmy p solid in III
Has 1923 Zeenut card.
1923-2-04 A. Pic in Pines uniform. Duffy Lewis, Salt Lake manager, offered Duchalsky $250 a month and transportation, and Duchalsky, "the hardest hitting pitcher that has ever performed in a local baseball league," accepted his offer.
Duchalsky led the Honolulu League in hitting last year for the last 12 games with a mark of .419.
Duchalsky was recommended to Duffy by Bullet Joe Bush. Bush saw him when he toured Hawaii with Herb Hunter's all-stars.
"The local teams are now up in arms over Duchalsky. He is reported to be signed up for teams, the Braves and the All-Hawaiians. The deadlock will probably be broken up by the fact" that Duchalsky will leave for the mainland.
1924-11-19 B. "If Jimmy Duchalsky, former Braves pitcher, who returned home yesterday after a season with Decatur in the Three-Eye League, breaks into the major leagues as a twirler within the next few years the credit can be laid to the door of Joe ("Iron Man") McGinnity, a famous moundsman with the New York Giants 20 years ago and now residing in the town for which the island boy played this year. McGinnity took Duchalsky under his wing this fall and taught him much about mound work and promises to teach him more next season.
It is no little tribute to Duchalsky's partially developed ability that he should attract the attention of such a celebrated hurler as McGinnity. In his day McGinnity was one of the greatest pitchers in baseball and that was the day of great pitchers like Christy Mathewson, George Wiltse and L. Ames. He became known as "Iron Man" because of his ability to pitch and win doubleheaders.. What McGinnity does not know about pitching can be put in the eye of a needle. He lives in Decatur and Jimmy came in contact with him by working in the same shop, a starch factory as his helper.
Jimmy had a good season with Decatur, winning 10 games and losing eight. He expects to return to Decatur next season but has not signed his contract yet.
When Duchalsky went up to the coast this spring he reported to the Salt Lake Bees in the Pacific Coast League. He weathered the training season and started in one regular league game. He pitched only to one batter and then was withdrawn. and some days later received his outright release when the Bees, in a trade, got a flock of big league twirlers. So Jimmy hunted around and accepted an offer to play independent ball at Dayton, Wash., where he stayed a week or so. Then he played independent ball at Baker, Ore.. when Decatur asked him to come, and he reported and played out the season with them. After the season was over he worked in a starch factory and there met McGinnity, who was so impressed with Jimmy's speed that he took him under his wing. Duchalsky has speed and can control his speed ball but he had no change of pace. His curves were uncertain. McGinnity began to work on him, taught him how to throw a perfect curve with a break. How to make a wide break or a short one was another lesson learned by Duchalsky. Under MecGinnity's coaching he pitched and won an exhibition ball game and his showing was so good that MecGinnity intimated that he would like to continue training the island boy.
McGinnity played in the Three- Eye League himself this year but owns a team in the Valley League. His plans for next season are uncertain but he evidently wants to develop Duchalsky for the majors.
McGinnity has played in many minor leagues since he left the majors almost 20 years ago. The "Iron Man" is still a good batter and fielder and can occasionally uncork some pitching stuff himself. All Hawaii will be ready to welcome McGinnity with open arms and treat him with real island hospitality should he develop Duchalsky to a major leaguer. McGinnity is one of the old-time type of ball players and always willing to lend a hand to aspiring youngsters."
1924-12-08 A. Front page. "Well Known Local Ball Player Shot to Death." Jealousy over girl was cause. Shot by John Emmeluth, taxi cab driver.
Shot in front of Pawaa movie theater at 11 at night.
1924-12-08 A. Contin. Began career with St. Louis College - then smashed all strikeout and win records with the Braves - then with Pines.
Pic in Pines uniform.
1924-12-10 B. Buried in Makiki cemetery. Died 12-07 from gunshot wound. "The funeral procession was more than 60 automobiles in length and indicated the popularity of the late baseball player. The parents of Duchalsky want to thank all of those who loaned cars to carry the mourners and also those who contributed to the large number of floral tributes."
1923-8-17 Started double play for Peoria. Box.
Buck Lai
Lai, Buck
FamilySearch
https://rmyauctions.com/bids/bidplace?itemid=30793 1928 pic - have screenshotted
FamilySearch
https://rmyauctions.com/bids/bidplace?itemid=30793 1928 pic - have screenshotted
https://www.loc.gov/resource/ggbain.18122/ 1914 pic - have screenshotted
https://issuu.com/liumagazine/docs/a061-20__fall-2020-liu-magazine_final/s/11426202
Worked 75 years at LIU
Worked 75 years at LIU
1978-3-22 B. Good obit.
1978-3-22 Camden. Facts and naught else obit. Survived by one son and three sisters.
1978-3-22 Camden. More substantial obit.
Kin Luke
1924-5-30 B. Profile + pic of Kin Luke, Chinese manager - mastermind of local baseball. More in Honolulu League section.
1924-5-30 B. Profile + pic of Kin Luke, Chinese manager - mastermind of local baseball. More in Honolulu League section.
1926-7-17 B. Kin Luke, All-Chinese manager, will retire - baseball is interfering with his business.
1944-8-16 A. Bare-bones obit. Died 1940-8-12 at Hilo.
1944-8-18 B. Kin Luke (Connie Mack), "one of the best known and liked men in local baseball history," died at Hilo Memorial Hospital on 8-12.
He kept his interest in baseball to the end. He rejoiced in the increased attention to baseball and believed that the major leaguers playing in local ball would help Hawaiian baseball in the future.
He liked helping youngsters and was one of the organizers of the Honolulu Chinese League.
1944-8-18 B. Obit. Born 1890-8-01. With Alexander & Baldwin as insurance solicitor since 1926.
Matias
1963-9-05 A. Brothers return after year in pro ball; pic.
Bull Perrine
1901-2-10 C&P. Lost 6-5 for Koenigs v. Golden Gates. Two Bodies in Koenig lineup.
(1901-6-21 Hollister. Pitched for Koenigs in 10-9 win v. Hollister. Delmas with Koenigs.
1901-9-29 Petaluma. Petaluma 2, Heesemans 1. Heesemans are one of best amateur teams in state. Perrine pitched for Heesemans. Play by play, box. Perrine struck out 12.
1901-9-29 Petaluma. Petaluma 2, Heesemans 1. Heesemans are one of best amateur teams in state. Perrine pitched for Heesemans. Play by play, box. Perrine struck out 12.
1901-10-13 Petaluma. Petaluma 5, Heesemans 0. Pic of Petaluma MG George R. Rodd. Streib, Tay at short for Petaluma.
1913-9-18 SF C&P. "Bull Perrine baseball umpire, whose face is familiar to thousands of local fans, was found insane this morning in Oakland and committed to the asylum at Napa. Perrine is suffering from locomotor ataxia and his case is considered hopeless. He was too violent when taken into court, and Judge Thomas W. Harris held the examination in the emergency hospital.
The witnesses were Margaret Perrine, a sister, and J. E. Perrine, a cousin, and Charles Emlay, ward of the insane."
1915-7-04 KY. "Fred (Bull) (Bull) Perrine, a former American league umpire, and before that in the higher class minors, died in the California State Hospital for the Insane as the result, it is believed, of being overcome with the heat while umpiring a game in New York in 1912. His mind gradually failed and in the last few months of his life was practically a blank. He had been in the hospital at Napa more than a year."
Ted Shaw
1957-6-24 B. Pic + profile. His Iolani team narrowly missed winning the prep championship last spring. Shaw remembers the great Negro Leaguers - they were born too soon.
1913-9-18 SF C&P. "Bull Perrine baseball umpire, whose face is familiar to thousands of local fans, was found insane this morning in Oakland and committed to the asylum at Napa. Perrine is suffering from locomotor ataxia and his case is considered hopeless. He was too violent when taken into court, and Judge Thomas W. Harris held the examination in the emergency hospital.
The witnesses were Margaret Perrine, a sister, and J. E. Perrine, a cousin, and Charles Emlay, ward of the insane."
1915-7-04 KY. "Fred (Bull) (Bull) Perrine, a former American league umpire, and before that in the higher class minors, died in the California State Hospital for the Insane as the result, it is believed, of being overcome with the heat while umpiring a game in New York in 1912. His mind gradually failed and in the last few months of his life was practically a blank. He had been in the hospital at Napa more than a year."
Ted Shaw
1957-6-24 B. Pic + profile. His Iolani team narrowly missed winning the prep championship last spring. Shaw remembers the great Negro Leaguers - they were born too soon.
Shaw pitched every game of Mutual Telephone's 38-game unbeaten streak that lasted from 1933 to 1937.
1966-2-05 A. An employe of the Honolulu Post Office for 18 years.
Yorio Waketake
1929-7-28 A. Left yesterday for Loma Linda.
1931-6-05 A. Former Asahi - returned home for summer. Completed second year at Loma Linda, private medical school in L.A. Has not played ball since leaving island.
1931-6-05 A. Former Asahi - returned home for summer. Completed second year at Loma Linda, private medical school in L.A. Has not played ball since leaving island.
FamilySearch
Camacho, Louis Candido Sr. Obit 1898-1952. Has been called Hawaii's all-time shortstop.
Camacho, Louis Candido Sr. Obit 1898-1952. Has been called Hawaii's all-time shortstop.
Chillingworth, William Army Index card born 1885-5-21, Makawao, Maui.
Hasegawa, Shigeichi (FindAGrave) Fred/Cowboy. 1918-1997.
Henry, George (Nig) 1901-1980. Texan. In military from 1922 to 1945.
Horio, James Fumito 1907-1949. WWII draft 5'10" 153. Obit Will be cremated at Honolulu crematory
Hirota, Jyun BR bullpen 1922-1983, 5'7", 165, BR, TR, McKinley HS. Informative.
Kam, James Obit -1998 (died at 84) Retired from IRS.
Kameda, Tadashi BR bullpen 1912-1976, BR TR, 5'9" 182 lb.
Kameda, Toshio 1912-2000. WWII 5'5" 125. https://www.hawaiiprepworld.com/hawaii-sports/april-13-1937-toshio-kameda-lives-up-to-family-name/
Kashiwaeda, Dick BR B 1920-2012 - baseball age of five years.
Kashiwaeda, Dick BR B 1920-2012 - baseball age of five years.
Kerr, Johnny Small obit Obit 1909-1990. Had baseball age of nine years.
Kunihisa, Lawrence Yoshio 1912-2000. 5'6", 135 lb.
Ladra, Jack BR B HS/college
Markham, Fred "Denny" Frederick John Kalanianole Markham. 1892-1962.
Markham, Herman Lawrence 1897-1972.
Markham, Norman "Juju" Norman St. David Markham. 1900-1969 1969-10-17 self-employed fisherman.
Moriguchi, Goro 1912-1983.
WWII Draft 5'5.5" 140 lb. Works at Castle and Cook Terminals.
Nobriga, Theodore Frederick 1910-1981.
WWII draft 6'1" 230 lb. Works at Honolulu Police Department. Is Portuguese-Hawaiian.
IMDB In "Hawaii" and "Hawaii-Five-O"
1981-6-09 Obit. 1968 pic. Former Parks director.
North, Buster 1964-4-07 Obit.
Pung, Hans BR bullpen 1907-1965.
Tanaka, Yoshio "Kaiser" BR B
Yaji, Larry BR B
Yamamoto, Allan Tsutomu Obit 1935-2024. Hawaii Golf HOF.
Yogi, Alan (Shinsuke) BR B
"Before World War II, my dad was playing in the semi-pro Hawai`i Baseball League. It was a racialized colonial baseball league that consisted of six teams, each representing a particular ethnic group.
The “Tigers” were the Chinese team. The “Asahi,” or “Rising Suns” were — what else — the Japanese team. The Portuguese team was called the “Braves,” and the “Wanderers” were the white, or haole, team. Inexplicably, the Filipino and Hawaiian teams were just the “Filipinos” and the “Hawaiians.”
Author's father was Hideo Yamashita - pic of him in 1940 with the Asahis.
Pic of him with Goro Moriguchi and Joe Takata with the Alohas. All three were Asahis and members of the Hawaii National Guard.
The Hawaiian Japanese-American soldiers were assigned to the 100th Infantry Battalion (Separate) stationed at Camp McCoy.
They formed a baseball team called the Alohas.
1943-7-04 team pic. Played ball through mid-1943 when assigned overseas.
Joe Takata was first casualty. Died 1943-9-29 in Italy. Six more Aloha team members would die, and several more would be wounded.
1942-11-10 Aloha team pic, with full names.
25th Infantry
1915-9-29 Banquet held in honor of team - have won third successive post championship. Poem in honor.
Mills School
1919-6-30 Hilo. Team pic - Has Nushida and Zenimura. Edward Low is top pitcher.
1921-11-16 ex-Mills stars making good on Mainland
On East coast.
1917-9-16 Upland team pic. Buck Lai, Marks (Fred Markham), Ayau.
Hawaii Islanders
1976-4-02 A. Kaaihue and Ahu.
1976-9-10 Kala Kaaihue has been a non-active coach all season; just placed on active roster.
Hawaii Islanders
1976-4-02 A. Kaaihue and Ahu.
1976-9-10 Kala Kaaihue has been a non-active coach all season; just placed on active roster.
1986-7-18 Derek Tatsuno will become 7th Hawaiian to play for Islanders. Tatsuno pic.
Japan
Japan
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/March_18
On 1940-3-18, Ted Kameda threw nine walk/hbp 1-0 no-hitter.
On 1940-3-18, Ted Kameda threw nine walk/hbp 1-0 no-hitter.
Pros
1973-3-12 B. Kala Kaaihue has second chance. Profile.
1978-2-09 B. About pros, w/pics
1978-1-16 B. University of Hawaii will play team of local pros at least twice a week next month.
1978-2-11 B. Local Pros 15, University of Hawaii 11. Hit five home runs - three of All-American candidate Derek Tatsuno. Line.
"Hans L'Orange Field began as a recreation area for Oahu Sugar Co. workers. Originally known as Oahu Sugar Co. Field, it was later named after the manager who, in 1924, convinced the company to give up several acres of cane field, to create the recreation area."
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