Miami baseball
1956-4-18 memories
Central Florida League
1931 Cocoa
1932 9-1 standings
1933 Cocoa 8-17 standings
1934 did not play
1936 dnp
Baker, Jake p 1936-37AA 1932 Cocoa 1933 Cocoa 1935 Cocoa Indians
Lake Buddy milb good two-way. Very good control. w/ Sanford FLOR 1946-50
Leitz, Al 1933AA 1932 New Smyrna
Ferrazzi, Bill p - made pro debut at 28 with 1935 PHA 1931 Deland Demons
Strickland, Bill 1931 Sanford Celery Feds 1932 Cocoa 1935 Cocoa
a ton of close games in series
1933-6-08 Neil Williamson appointed manager-catcher of Orlando. Succeeds Purcell as manager. Team has 6-7 record. Williamson has played in Piedmont and West Virginia leagues.
1936-4-02 Jake Baker won 28 games last year - has been with Millers in training three weeks at DeLand and has made good. - Red Norwood signing with DeLand.
1931 Cocoa Indians
Dade County League
Dade Victory League
ade-Broward League
1928
1928-6-28 Herald. All boxes.
Dade County Amateur League
1921
Bandrimer, Isey 1921 Larkin After FECL concluded schedule
1921-9-17 "Winter baseball for Miami is almost a certainty, according to T.J. Murphy, manager of the Dade County Amateur League. Plans for a six or eight-club league that will play baseball all winter are well underway, Mr. Murphy reports."
The Realty Board nine has assumed the Miami Beach franchise.
1921-9-19 Season's second half will close on 10-13. Schedule for remaining games.
1921-9-01 Miami Ad Club beat Lemon City 18-2 (box)
1921-9-21 Standings, some lines, some boxes. Crims in Ft. Lauderdale lineup that played with Ft. Lauderdale team in 1922 (1922-9-01 Three Miami Magicians in Larkin line-up.
Dade County League
1922
1935
1938
(1922-9-29 Standings, boxes.
Covington, Chet
1935-9-17 In ten-inning game on Sunday, Chet Covington struck out 16 Sunshine Sweepers and Warren struck out 16 Wildcats. Now that is some pitching.
Dade Victory League
1944
1945
1945-4-08 Pic of four Eastern Airline players, including Chester Covington
1945-4-08 Eastern Airline 3, Army Ground and Service Forces Redistribution Station 0. Box. EAL used three pitchers, Covington last.
Florida East Coast League
1920
1921 Ft. Pierce Commercials 2nd half final standings
Purcell, Harry of .327 1922 AA 1921 Miami Magicians
1920-9-06 Miami Herald. Purcell arrived to play with Miami after season in TEX. He will be in the lineup today "in accordance with the action of the league last night, making all new players eligible immediately."
1921-9-02 Meeting held as Ft. Pierce requested season end on 9-15 instead of the originally planned 10-01. Miami voted to end the season this very week.
Ft. Pierce wanted earlier end date because of "financial difficulties in carrying out the season to 10-01." As all four clubs are running further and further into debt, Miami suggested we end in a few days.
"The Miami club has been bearing the brunt of the support of the league, the attendance here contributing largely to the support of the other teams, as the league rules provide for an equal division of gate receipts. When the Magicians are on the road, they have been averaging only the guarantee of $60 a game, or barely enough to pay the traveling expenses of the club. The tail end of the season gives the locals a large number of foreign games, including a Labor Day engagement at West Palm Beach, and the directors voted to keep the team at home from now on."
Box, standings. Good crowd despite inclement weather.
Box, standings. Good crowd despite inclement weather.
1921-9-03 Herald. "Withdrawal of the Miami club from the Florida East Coast League, following the rejection by the other clubs of the league over a revised distribution of gate receipts proposed by the local club, was the principal event of the meeting of the club owners held at the Tamiami hotel last night." Ft. Lauderdale was not present so we don't know what it thinks - the other two teams are considering replacing Miami with Cocoa.
"The Miami club presented the following proposition to the league: That the Labor day game scheduled between West Palm Beach and Miami at West Palm Beach be transferred to Miami, and that in future league games the visiting teams be paid a guarantee of $60 per game, the home club to retain all gate receipts over that amount, instead of the present $60 guarantee with an equal division of gate receipts when one-half the receipts is more than $60.
"The other clubs rejected this proposition and Miami announced its formal withdrawal from the league."
C.F. Ordway, Ft. Pierce director, stated the team considers Miami a traitor if it drops out of the league.
"At last night's meeting the Miami, West Palm Beach and Ft. Pierce clubs all reported that they were in debt, the total indebtedness of the league amounting to several thousand dollars. High salaries paid to players was given as the reason."
1921-9-07 2nd half final standings. Ft. Pierce was in 1st at 16-12.
1921-9-12 (News) Miami-Daytona players arrested - all 24 of them. Deputy sheriff interrupted the game. "Cash bond of $1,200 for the 24 players was put up by the management of the teams, and the game proceeded to a finish."
"It was the first Sunday game to be played on the local diamond since last May when the Florida East Coast League decided to discontinue Sunday games after several arrests had been made. In previous trials of Sunday baseball players they have been acquitted by juries in the criminal court of record."
1921-9-17 The Miami Magicians had their picture taken at the ballpark yesterday but Isey Bandrimer arrived too late.
1921-9-18 Very nice team pic of Miami Magicians, who finished 2nd in both halves of the schedule.
The Magicians will probably play their final game of the season today. "It had been hoped to play games for the remainder of the present month, but the disbanding of the other East Coast league teams, as well as the Florida State aggregations, makes it difficult to book contests."
"Should the local season be brought to a close tonight the team will finish the season deeply in debt, Treasurer T.B. McGahey of the local club reported yesterday."
1921-9-21 Really nice pic of Isey Bandrimer. Rated by fans as one of the best infielders developed on the east coast in years.
1921-9-24 Miami will play West Palm Beach tomorrow (Sunday!) in a benefit game to be played for the local club "under the auspices of the Miami Baseball Association" in an attempt to pay off some of the club's $3,000 debt.
1921-9-29 Norbert "Spec" Dienecke, batboy and mascot of Miami FECL, is catching for his school team.
1921-10-08 Francis Wall, "one of Bound Brook [NJ]'s best baseball players," recently returned home from playing in the FECL.
1921-10-12 "Isey Bandrimer, second baseman for the Miami baseball team.-If someone were to die and leave me a million dollars I would invest it in the largest jewelry establishment in the south. I would quit playing ball and would forget that I ever had made a cent by manual labor. I would depend on my investment for my dividends."
1921-10-25 Miami's participation in the league was a financial failure; proposals for how to make pro ball pay. "In the past the trouble was that the railroads got all the money." Under the proposed plan that would not be the case. "The men at the head of this league will arrange to transport the clubs by auto buses, even if they have to buy enough to transport the teams every day, if they choose."
1921-11-05 "Tatum park. as it is known, the Miami baseball park, is the largest enclosure used for that purpose in the south, and the largest that the present owners have heard of anywhere. It measures 650 feet in length, and is 550 feet wide. From home plate to the nearest left field fence is 440 feet, and from home to deep center is 630 feet. When Babe Ruth trained here with the New York Americans he tried on several occasions to lift a ball over the fence and failed to do so. He could not do the home run stunt in Tatum field in the two- game series played here at that time. Ruth may have knocked balls longer distances than the length of Tatum field, but he did not do it in this field. It is said that no player has ever lifted a fair ball from home plate over the fence.
"The grounds are in fine shape, well sodded, and the grandstand and bleachers were put in first class condition last season for the Florida East Coast league with new wire protection for the grandstand. There is seating capacity in the grandstand for 1400 people and for about the same number in the bleachers, with abundant parking space for automobiles.
"As the present owners of the baseball park, which is valued at $60,000, are lovers of the national game, they have protected the property for that purpose for two years. Numerous offers for the property have been made for subdivision purposes, and the park has also been mentioned as the logical place for fair grounds. Whether these offers finally result in the abandonment of the baseball park will depend upon the seriousness with which Miami considers the advantages of baseball as an advertisement for the city and entertainment for residents and visitors.
1921-11-06 Two teams called the Yankees and the Giants, composed of former FECL players, will play the second game of their series at Tatum Park.
(1921-5-06 Ft. Pierce. Standings and local box.
1921-6-07 Miami Herald. Box, play by play.
1921-6-18 Miami Herald. All boxes.
1921-9-18 Tampa 10, Miami 1. 4th game of series - Tampa won them all. "Players of both teams and the umpires were placed under arrest after the game, for participating in a Sunday contest, contrary to state blue laws..."
The officials of the local club paid $50/player to release everyone. The locals were also 'pinched' for their game with the Daytona Islanders on 9-11. In the spring players were found not guilty for this offense.
East Coast League
1938-4-22 First half schedule for Vero Beach. In pre-season game, Lefty Covington of Miami beats Vero Beach 2-0 in 11-inning game. Vero Beach pitchers combined to K 20. White background behind pitcher made it hard to hit; a green screen will be installed.
1938-7-31 Red Kaiser has 8-1 record. Only loss went thirteen innings and was mostly the fielders' fault anyways.
Florida Central League
1932
1932-8-25 On labor day, Leesburg and Center Hill, the half-season winners of the Florida Central League, will play St. Petersburg and Plant City of the Florida West Coast League. Plant City won first half of the West Coast League.
"A special train will bring hundreds of Leesburg and Center Hill rooters to the city and these, added to the local and Plant City rooters, should result in the largest turnout of the year."
Florida State League (D)
1919
1928 BR No rosters
1925-11-05 p.2 TSN. 3/4 of major league teams train in FL, but the state league cannot get through a season without some of its teams failing. Some history of league.
Four-team class D league has struggled - but a class B league might work if real estate $ supported it.
"Florida, the home of the real estate man. Florida, the land where money is not mined but made on paper with real estate." Florida fans would swarm to the parks if given real classy baseball of the class B kind - no more of that shoddy class D knock-off.
1919-9-22 Orlando box
1928-5-04 Herald. All boxes. Bob Hathaway w/ Sanford.
1928-4-07 Herald. Exhibition. Miami Hustlers 11, Harry Swacina's All-Stars 2. Note about pitchers' use of pitches.
Florida State League (D)
1936
1936-2-21 Description of how the Sanford team was funded. Lots of donations from locals. Organized by farmers.
Sanford has team in FLOR but Orlando, three times the size, does not.
Lake-Orange League
1933
1936
1936-5-01 Leesburg roster. After absence last year, it looks like they have one of this year's strongest clubs in eight-team circuit.
Miami City League
1921
1921-11-19 Championship will be decided in game today. Many Florida East Coast League players will appear in the three-way doubleheader between the Miami FD, the South Atlantic Telegraph & Telephone Company, and the plumbers. "Should the firemen win both games, they will tie the wiremen for the league leadership, but if the telephone team emerges a victor it will 'cinch' the pennant."
North Florida League
1935
Singleton, Lonnie/Lonny of, good in SEAL 1935 St. Augustine p
Northeast Florida League
1933
Pensacola Twilight League
1935
1935-6-07 Russ Scarritt (MLB) is new Police manager.
South Florida League
1914
Southeast Florida League
1933
1934-7-28 Gossip. Doubleheader was big-hitting in first game, small hitting in second, as same four balls were used for both games.
South Florida Coast-Glades League
1953-5-21 Fort Pierce Chicks article
1953-9-15 Commented final stats with first names
Sunshine League
1932
1932-8-25 Local amateur league. Games are free of charge. Milton Logan, former West Coast league pitcher, will pitch for Largo.
https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/Alex-Mustaikis/
https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=mustai001ale
East Coast Winter League
1924-25
1925-1-11 Herald. Box. Jack Olinger, of Miami = league's peerless slugger.
1925-2-22 Miami Herald. Championship series #1. Coral Gables 7, Fulford 4. Box.
South Eastern Florida Professional League
South Eastern Florida Professional League
1924-25 Lake Worth
Herbst, Kelley ok in mid-minors but career mostly outside 1924-25 West Palm Beach Gators "of old East Coast League fame"
Foss, George 1921 WSH - if 1924-25 Miami
1925-1-04 Tribune. League commentary. "Rube [Zellars] had an unbroken streak of victories over in Cuba and he is likely to prove the best hurler in this league also."
Faulkner, Lake Worth, is the league's tough luck pitcher
1925-1-11 Herald. All boxes. Dressen & Koenig of St. Paul join Miami team.
1925-1-15 Miami News. All boxes. "The game marked Fort Lauderdale's sojourn in professional baseball. Stuart, the enterprising hustling little city which is baseball crazy, purchased the Tarpons, lock, stock, barrel and all, and the transfer was effective after Thursday's game."
1925-2-10 Miami News. Local box.
1925-2-10 Miami Herald. Local box + solid account.
1925-2-10 Miami Tribune. All boxes.
1925-2-21 Palm Beach Post. Local box + good account.
1925-2-28 Miami News.
1925-3-05 News. G#1. Lake Worth 5, Miami 3.
1925-3-08 Miami Herald. Box + account for deciding game of championship series.
1925-1-04 Jess Petty in Miami uniform.
Sunshine League
1925-26
Ammons, Bud 1925-26 Croissantainia
Bogart, Eddie 1925-26 Johnson-Moffat - leading league with .462 AVG as of 2-04
De Meo, Henry 1925-26 Miami
Proffitt, Eurie p Buffalo IL 1925-26 Corals Gable
Ballenger, Pel pro debut at 24, MLB debut at 34 1925-26 Miami Shores
Foss, George 1921 WSH - if 1925-26 Corals Gable
Gearin, Dinty 5'4" 148lb. 1925-26 Miami
Stephenson, Riggs 1925-26 Johnson-Moffat
Stryker, Sterling p 1925-26 Johnson-Moffat
1925-10-25 News. League meeting next week - nine organizations are looking for teams in the coming AA Winter League.
Pic of Sumpter Clark (New Orleans SOUA) who will manage.
1925-11-26 Tribune. Rosters w/ full names. Lists where they played in summer.
1925-11-26 Herald. Rosters + cartoons of managers + league schedule.
League president said that the players have been allotted with the idea of making a balanced race - "the clubs which turn out to be weak will be strengthened as there is a wealth of good material available."
"City Manager Wharton yesterday ordered 3,000 bleacher seats from a firm in Newcastle, Ind. They should be here within a week, it was said."
Umpires listed, including Swacina. Some review of rosters.
"The Sunshine League is providing new cushions for the fans to chunk at Jack O'Toole and Augie Moran."
1925-12-03 p.2 TSN. Bucky Harris signed to manage Coral Gables team - cannot play because major league contracts forbid players to play after 10-31. "The players of this organization have been recruited from class AA and class A minor leagues, with some of lower classification or of no classification."
1925-12-04 Ft. Lauderdale. League play will resume Sunday 12-06. Lists managers, notable players. George Sisler = Miami Shores MG. Gives Miami & Coral Gables rosters, listing their 1925 pro clubs.
Frank C. Gardiner is league pres.
"The immediate erection of bleacher seats at the municipal ball park. for the accommodations of the hundreds who cannot be seated in the grandstand, has been ordered by Frank C. Gardiner, president of the Sunshine Baseball League.
The grandstand seats near to 400 spectators and last Sunday nearly 1,200 fans were obliged to stand up because of lack of seats. Gardiner has ordered that the bleachers be thrown up as soon as possible in an effort to have plenty of room for the crowds this Sunday afternoon when Coral Gables and Miami play. The bleachers have been sadly needed here, even during the football season and now that the baseball has proved so popular at the start, efforts are being made to provide comfort for the spectators."
1926-1-17 Herald. Good batting stats.
1926-2-04 p.6 TSN. Stats. "All six teams play in Miami Field in Miami, and each outfit has but two or three games a week to get away with. Naturally, the players keep in great shape, and it is felt they do not work hard enough to hurt them for their Summer's assignment."
Season began 11-29 and will end 3-07. Some players will have to leave a few days early for spring training.
Attendance is good despite competition. Games are played every day but Monday.
1926-2-25 p.5 TSN. Sisler returned to St. Louis in the middle of last week "to get personal and baseball affairs straightened out."
1926-2-25 p.6 TSN. Many Rochester IL players have been playing in Sunshine League.
1926-5-08 Boston's battery - Wiltse-Gaston - same as Boca Raton battery.
1926-12-01 Herald. League organized - will open 12-12. John Cleary = "Miami sportsman, former president and prime mover in the organization of the Three-Eye League"
1926-12-03 Herald. League meeting - will have 8 teams (listed) and be known as Southern Florida Sunshine League. John Cleary = president.
1926-12-05 Herald. "And we're going to have baseball, too, with Jack Cleary, a real baseball man, at the helm. It was Cleary who took charge of the mess which grew out of the Sunshine league last year and straightened out many of the tangles resulting from that blow-up. He did a right, noble plece of work for Miami last spring, though few here realize it. With a sane baseball man in charge the Winter Baseball League should be a success, and there will be some pretty good teams in it, too.
1941-2-07 Profile of Jack Cleary, new racing commissioner.
1925-12-20 Ft. Lauderdale. All boxes.
1925-12-27 Ft. Lauderdale. All boxes. "The game was totally free from home runs, something unusual in the local park" Bucky Harris = Coral Gables MG, Ira Thomas = Boca Raton MG, Frankie Frisch = Croissantania MG, Ollie Chill = Miami MG, Duffy Lewis = Johnson-Moffat MG.
1926-27
1927-1-02 Herald. All boxes, standings. Watkins = Miami manager.
1927-1-02 News.
1927-1-09 News.
1927-2-27 News. Box.
Florida Winter League
1929-30
1929-9-18 WPB. Two-game series today and tomorrow between Miami Red Sox and Brooklyn Cuban Giants at Lincoln Park.
1929-10-20 Will contain six negro teams - has the fastest active talent in the state. Season will begin 11-03 - teams listed.
"The league will open the first half of its winter schedule November 3. Four teams will swing into action on the opening day. The Miami Giants will play the Miami Red Sox at Miami, and the Sarasota team will meet the Brooklyn Cuban Giants in West Palm Beach. Each series will be of five days' duration and will open on Sunday and close on Thursday of each week.
Winter baseball
Captain [J.E.] Scott, [secretary of the Dade County athletic club,] is busily engaged in shaping up and clearing the way for a battle for the winter. Already letters are coming from players of the big teams in the East and West offering their services for winter baseball.
J. Brady Johnson, manager of the Brooklyn Cuban Stars, has been active in helping to round out the schedule and stimulating interest on the West Coast. It is the desire of the organizer that the league will not only demonstrate that winter baseball is practical, and desirable in this section of the country, but profitable."
1929-11-01 Herald. The Red Sox have added to their line-up Cueria, formerly of the Havana Red Sox. "Capt. James E. Scott, organizer of the winter league stated today that the league has gone over the top and that he has men interested who are going to stick and play baseball. There will be five games of baseball in Miami each week. When the Miami Red Sox hit the road the Miami Giants will play in Miami.
The games will start promptly at 3 o'clock Sundays, Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays of each week. There will be ample accommodations for white fans."
1929-11-24 "The Miami Red Sox and Miami Giants, local negro baseball teams, will open their series at 3:30 this afternoon at the negro ball park in a benefit game for relatives of Felix Stirrup, catcher for the Giants, who died Thursday.
The series was originally postponed but this plan was adopted instead. The Red Sox are at present leading the Florida winter negro league"
1929-12-07 NPC. Extract from Miami paper. "Four fast Negro baseball teams are ready for the first Negro league." etc.
1929-12-27 West Palm Beach. "City Manager Parker took under consideration Thursday a request that the Florida Winter Baseball League of Miami be allowed to stage two baseball games at Wright Field each week this season, using negro players. It is understood that the audience would be white."
1929-11-03 Herald. Opening game. Luis Tiant shutout the Miami Giants. (Tiant always called Tian.) Styrupp at catcher for the Miami Giants. Report of score from game between Fort Myers Giants and Brooklyn Cuban Giants played at West Palm Beach, but no box.
1929-11-17 WPB. Brief commentary. Burke threw a shutout for the Cuban Giants against the Miami Giants. Cuban Giants are "playing out of West Palm Beach." Game was at Lincoln Park - the first of a five-game series.
"Special seats have been reversed [sic] for white patrons, the games starting at 3:30 o'clock."
1929-12-16 Herald. Tiant shutout the Miami Giants again. Will play again at N.W. Seventeenth street and First avenue today.
Winter baseball
1924-1-01 Tip Tops 5, Ojus 1. Ojus team disbanded after game - "Winter baseball has been found to be a failure here, as both the fans and players get tired of the game without a rest in which to recuperate their interest."
Burmeister, Clarence vg p 1917 Pensacola Beat Navy Aero Station 4-0 - both teams made two errors. "Grandpa Sanchez" is Pensacola 3b. 2 Lost to Aero 6-1.
Mitchell, Babe p 1930 Little River shutout University of Havana. 1931 Miami
Pond, Arthur long-time c. SOUA, IL etc.1921 Pensacola 2
Pond, Arthur long-time c. SOUA, IL etc.1921 Pensacola 2
Sewell, Jack p 1922 Miami Magicians
Collins, Orth 1922 Ft. Lauderdale - pitched and won - 42 years old. Only became regular pitcher in last two years in minors
Scarritt, Russ 1921 Pensacola Also in line-up is brother Harry. 1922 Pensacola Regulars game against Navy - Harry with Navy.
Miami
1908-2-03 Poincana 7, Miami Tigers 4. Line.
Pensacola
1904-10-12 Biloxi 9, Pensacola 0. Biloxi made 1 error - Pensacola 15. Sanchez at 2nd for Pensacola. Big crowd. Worst game of season. 2nd team to be defeated by Biloxi.
1909-9-22 Pensacola 5, Meridian 3.
1910-6-01 Mobile 8, Pensacola 3.
1912-7-04 Pensacola 4, Eddys 1.
1912-7-08 Pensacola takes double-header from Eddy's
1912-8-17 Pensacola 5, Garyville of New Orleans 2.
1914-5-31 City League boxes. 3 combined errors in 1st game, six in second.
Twilight League rules.
1914-10-11 1st game of best-of-three City League series between Whitmans and D'Alembertes. Sanchez at 1b-p for D'Alembertes.
1919-7-06 Play by play + box. Florala 4, Pensacola Regs 2. 13 combined errors. W/ Sanchez.
1921-5-28 Pensacola 7, Mobile Chickasaws 6.
1921-7-26 Pensacola 1, Andalusia 0. Ryan, Pensacola manager-pitcher, wins own game.
1921-7-26 Pensacola 1, Andalusia 0. Ryan, Pensacola manager-pitcher, wins own game.
1921-8-07 Pensacola 4, Gulfport MS 2. Sanchez at 3b. Thorpe from the GASL pitched for the locals. Gulfport player Long John Showers applauded every time he came to bat - "was one of the most popular players who ever wore a Pensacola uniform." "Lars Sanchez." = different Sanchez, born in 1900 (1944-5-21 profile + pic)
1921-9-23 Pensacola 5, Patterson LA 5. 11 innings.
1922-6-18 Pensacola 6, Montgomery All-Stars 5. 14 innings.
1922-10-01 Twilight League final stats. Harry Scarrit with Navy team. Rather low batting.
https://www.newspapers.com/search/results/?city=Pensacola&county=Escambia&date-end=1920&date-start=1910&feature-rs=true&keyword=sanchez®ion=us-fl Sanchez played all thru 1910s.
1922-6-18 Pensacola 6, Montgomery All-Stars 5. 14 innings.
1922-10-01 Twilight League final stats. Harry Scarrit with Navy team. Rather low batting.
https://www.newspapers.com/search/results/?city=Pensacola&county=Escambia&date-end=1920&date-start=1910&feature-rs=true&keyword=sanchez®ion=us-fl Sanchez played all thru 1910s.
1932-5-29 Dade County League today will for third time attempt to open season
1932-7-03 Dade County standings. Has k'd 26 in two games. Tom Marshall = cigarmen.
1932-7-03 Dade County standings. Has k'd 26 in two games. Tom Marshall = cigarmen.
1932-7-17 standings. I have all games.
1934-7-28 Gossip. Doubleheader was big-hitting in first game, small hitting in second, as same four balls were used for both games. Covington pitched in second game
1934-8-12 Has 5-1 record
1935-6-02 Leading diamondball league in batting with .518
1935-9-17 In ten-inning game on Sunday, Chet Covington struck out 16 Sunshine Sweepers and Warren struck out 16 Wildcats. Now that is some pitching.
1935-9-17 In ten-inning game on Sunday, Chet Covington struck out 16 Sunshine Sweepers and Warren struck out 16 Wildcats. Now that is some pitching.
1936-5-09 With South Miami - will pitch in exhibition game against Tarpons, who he has played with for past two years
1938-7-10 Pic. Described as eccentric
Dade County stats listed - 1-1 with 28K and 7 walks in two games
1953-5-02 Will appear with North Miami - team is full of pros, who are listed. Team has 12-3 record.
1953-5-18 Beat Okeechobee 23-7. Okeechobee played game under protest, claiming Covington was illegal.
1953-6-17 Former pros allowed in South Florida Coast-Glades League as long as they have been released.
1953-8-04 Leading South Florida Coast-Glades League with 7-0 record
1953-8-22 Came to terms today with Fort Lauderdale
1953-8-23 Was very good in debut for Lions. Called Bobo Newsom of minors. Interesting.
1953-8-26 Comes out of relief for Fort Lauderdale, FLIN.
1953-8-28 Started and lost for Fort Lauderdale Lions
1953-9-15 Led league with 7-1 record.
1954-7-19W/ pic. Miami Flamingos offer him contract for last bit of season - he will accept only if his employer, Rolfe Armored Truck Service, grants him leave of absence.
Complains of effects of minor league chain system.
1954-9-09 Trying to organize Dade County Amateur League for next season. Hopes to add four more clubs to four that have already filed for positions.
1954-9-15 Will bring club to play Key West. Covington managed own team, Dade Gas, and won Miami Amateur pennant.
1954-9-30 Stats for Stuart Sailfishers. Covington pitched three games for them and then disappeared - Tom Deese had to take over pitching.
1954-9-30 Stats for Stuart Sailfishers. Covington pitched three games for them and then disappeared - Tom Deese had to take over pitching.
1955-1-16 newly organized Dade County semi-pro league has six teams - Covington is one of organizers.
1955-1-20 Pic. Formed semi-pro league, but will leave its direction to others - namely, Joe Eaton and Ed Little. League is one of two chances for summer ball in Miami.
1955-5-01 Stuart Sailfishers will face Miami team lead by Covington, who will pitch.
1955-8-07 (Miami News) Note to Chester Covington, the old Florida International figure: We lost track of you - report in, please, and tell us what you're doing.
1955-12-11 Jerry Brooks, Patio Restaurant, writes asking what happened to Lefty Covington
1956-7-01 Greater Miami Amateur League standings + top batters. Knobby Rosa, former Miami Sun Sox star, is manager of Dixie Lily - Rosa and Covington were also together with North Miami (see 1953-5-02) Pitching staffs of all-stars and Dixie Lily listed.
1956-7-05 Greater Miami Amateur League all-star team wins 4-2 over league-leading Dixie Lily at Miami Field before 400 fans. Covington struck out 10 and walked none in relief for Dixie Lily - lost game in eighth
1956-7-14 Returned to softball diamond in old timer's game
1958-5-01 Currently drives truck for Miami meat wholesaler
1958-5-22 Says he is pitching coach for Dixie Lily
1958-7-17 Dixie Lily is 1st in Miami semi-pro league - has several old FLIN players
1958-7-20 Manager of Dixie Lily, Miami semi-pro team
1958-7-20 Manager of Dixie Lily, Miami semi-pro team
1963-9-21 One of those running for Hialeah mayor
1961-10-13 "Lashed out at the proposed golf course and country club, said the bond issues would mean a 'huge tax increase.'"
1961-10-29 Lists professions of candidates.
1961-10-29 Aspiring councilman's platforms listed.
Covington's: "Called for more economy in city government and added: 'I don't want a liquor license.'"
1963-10-30 Far back in final voting in race for Hialeah mayor. Received 485 votes
1964-8-11 Joe Palaveda, former teammate, recollects Chet - tells yo-yo story.
About 1946 FLIN:
"That was back when minor league baseball wasn't quite as minor as it is now. It was when you didn't have so much TV, and baseball was the only game in town."
1972-8-12 Tomorrow Tampa Smokers old timers will play a few innings against Tampa Tarpons
1972-8-14 Pic. Interview + recollections. Was wrestler and boxer. Mixed relationship with Cubans.
1973-8-22 Pic pitching for old timers v Tarpons
1974-2-03 One of those who accepted invitation for MLB old timer's game in Florida
1975-6-11 Old timers v Tampa Tarpons
1976-6-15 obit.
https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/Alex-Mustaikis/
https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=mustai001ale
1908-4-09 Miami News. Rollins College base ball team - champions of Florida. Team pic. Selected stats. Have two players from Matanzas.
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