Montana
Butte City League
1911
Butte City League
1938 McQueen Addition 7-26 standings
1939 McQueen Addition 7-31 standings
1941 7-10 standings
1942 7-16 .300+
1943 7-05 standings only three teams final batting
1940-8-12 Playoff series begins tonight. Free baseball was provided all summer to over 100K fans; in play-offs, admission will be 20 cents for adults, 10 for children. (100K figure seems doubtful to me)
1939-8-19 McQueen Addition team pic. Has Joe Pajnich, not Fish. Will play Butte Copper Sox for city title.
1943-8-30 McQueen lost 17-2 in opening round of playoffs. Miners Union was regular schedule winner.
Butte Copper League
Butte Copper League
1948 7-15 standings
1961
finis
1944-5-29 Memories of Butte City League in 1918.
"The McQueen infield is the veteran infield of the circuit insofar as having played together is concerned. Pajnich, Dunstan and Kristic have been cooperating with each other since grade school days."
"Sunday marked the first time in league history, according to veterans of play, that a game has been played at Clark Park in which all balls hit out of the park have been returned. In the first game four balls were used and all were available at the end of the contest."
Eddie Gerry has been involved in Butte baseball for 36 years now.
1946-9-08 66,890 paid attendance for 70 games - almost double 1945's attendance. Top attendance was 2,736; the four-game championship series drew gates of 2,200, 2,423, 2,684, 2,694.
1947-8-09 There will be a benefit game for Fish Pajnich. Appeared headed for big leagues when a knee injury cut short his pro career. Has had to wear an iron brace on that knee since.
Injured in game of 6-18 and had to have surgery.
1947-8-14 Paid attendance of 2,993 at double cost for Fish Pajnich.
McQueens will receive a few players from the Missoula Pirates, who dominated in the State League race.
1948-5-15 League taking a breath for the dive into the season.
League record attendance is 5,331, set in the final game of the championship series last year.
League players who have been playing longest are Pee Wee Mihelich and Mahlon (Lefty) Nettleton.
1948-5-24 Billy Paige, who's been living 50 years in Butte, may be the Copper League's biggest fan. This will be a lonely season for him, sadly - his wife, also a fan of the league, died six months ago.
Fish Pajnich is McQueen coach.
Pic of Navy officer watching game with binoculars from top of fifty-foot tall chimney.
1945-9-13 Deciding game of five-game championship series. McQueens 8, Silver Bow Parks 7. Paid admission of 1386, highest in league's two-year history.
1946-8-28 McQueen AC takes third place. North Side and Silver Bow Park are tied in championship series.
Butte Independent League
start
1920 A.C.M.
1921 final incomplete free weekday games averaged 5K ATT - paid Sunday, 1.2K
1922 Anodes final batting final standings final
1923 Clarks final stats/standings & misc. indiv. pics
1924 Black-Pitts 2.4K ATT final stats/standings very complete
1926 Anodes 9-4 standings final stats very complete
finish
Bloodgood, Al 1924 Black-Pitts
Bonner, Al veteran pitcher 1927 Montana Power
Chekaluk, Steve 1927 ACM (nvg that year - 23bb 18.33 in)
Chorlton, James 1922 Clarks 1923 Clarks 1924 Clarks 1926 Clarks 1927 Clarks
Clynes, Jack pro 1904-1914* 1923 Colo-Pitts
Ferguson, Lester p 1927 Anodes
Fitterer, Leo 22W 1937 WINT 1927 A.C.M.
Eley, Orville 1924 Black-Pitts
Juney, Frank 1923
Rathjen, Ed 1923 Clarks 1927 Clarks
Reynolds, Roland "Rollie" 1926 A.C.M.
Schinski, John 1926 A.C.M. b - interesting commentary on game - VG box
Schwartz, Earl 1927 Clarks
Tucker, Earl .429 avg in 63 at-bats milb career 1923 Colo-Pitts
Averill, Earl 1925 Anaconda
Collard, Hap 1923
Crosetti, Frank 1927 Montana Powers
1922-9-09 baseball is blooming as it has not since 20 years ago in the days of McCloskey
1922-9-13 banquet for champion Anodes
1922-9-17 picked team will face Colored Giants of Independent League
1923-9-12 Clark players disperse
1924 Black-Pitts team pic & Al Bloodgood & James Chorlton
Montana State League
1899
1900 BR
1937-10-31 About Joe McCarthy, a colorful character from 1900. Articles about him reprinted.
Montana State League
Montana State League
1935 Freebourn 2nd half final standings final batting and fielding final pitching
1936 East Helena 2nd half final standings final batting alt but same quality
1938 dnp
1939 dnp
1941 7-10 standings
Blastic, Henry-Hank good in WINT former Montana State leaguer
Pajnich, Frank-"Fish" 1936 Butte - league batting leader w/ .475 - 2g with 1934 Portland. In 1937, umpired the first half of the year then won the batting title in the second with .448 average.
Carr, Wayne Butte Colored Giants
Championship -
between 1st and second half winners
1935-9-01 alt next day Freebourn 7, Colored Giants 6.
1935-9-03 Freebourn 10, Colored Giants 1. identical next day
1936-8-27 East Helena 8, Butte 1. 1st game
1936-8-29 East Helena 11, Butte 4. 3rd game - second was 10-10 tie
1936-9-01 East Helena 5, Butte 3. East Helena won four games to one.
1937-8-27 Semi-final about to be decided
1937-8-29 Silver Bow Parks, Missoula 9. Biggest crowd in years.
1937-8-30 Missoula 4, Silver Bow Park 2.
1935-9-06 Montana State Leaguers have been nominated for All-American amateur team that will sail for Japan October 3.
1936-9-04 Lew Olsen of East Helena is trying to get a Red Sox try-out.
1936-9-05 William T. "Bill" Cullen appointed play and activity program director for grade schools in district No. 1
former Butte Mines League player, current Montana State League player.
1936-12-27 East Helena, league champs, had a half-dozen Missoulans in line-up.
1937-9-11 League's attendance much higher per game than in previous years.
1938-12-31 The State League having folded, Butte's baseball needs were served by the City Amateur League.
Inter-Mountain League (Class D)
1909-6-04 Salary limit is $1500/month for 13 players Tamp Osborne traded to Butte
car service to parks is nvg
car service to parks is nvg
1909-7-11 league blew up 7-4 - team losses listed account of when John J. McCloskey managed PNWL champ team - $3K salary/month for team
Thomas 1909
Tremblay, Amedee 1912 UA 1912 Butte lost 16-2
Butte city championship
Tremblay, Amedee 1912 UA 1912 Butte lost 16-2
Butte city championship
1939-8-19 preview.
1939-8-24 Copper Sox 13, McQueen 4. Boxes have batter BB and SO.
1941-8-29 Boosters 6, Walkerville 5.
Butte Parks
Butte Parks
1938-7-10 Organized very recently. Are a combination of the Butte and Silver Bow Parks teams of last year's Montana State League. Will play Butte Colored Giants. Have Fish Pajnich.
1938-8-01 Coeur d' Alene 15, Butte Parks 8.
1938-9-04 Butte Parks 15, Coeur d' Alene 2. Rubber match of five-game series. Fish hit two homers.
1938-9-05 Coeur d'Alene Miners 11, Butte Parks 1.
Butte Copper Sox
1938-9-05 Coeur d'Alene Miners 11, Butte Parks 1.
Butte Copper Sox
1939-7-30 Today the Copper Sox will face an integrated team: the International All-Stars of Conrad, MT, a baseball force with the former battery for the Butte Colored Giants and a lineup sprinkled with former Coast Leaguers. The town the team represents, Conrad, "takes its baseball as seriously as it does its cash crop of beet sugar."
1939-7-19 Beat University Store of Missoula 12-8
1939-8-18 Beat old-timer's team of former City, Mines, and State leaguers 10-3.
1940-10-06 Lose to Earl Mack's Touring All-Stars 22-7; Rollie Hemsley is a cut-up
Dell, Wheezer Weiser in 1911
Lavan, Doc 1912 Dillon playing under assumed name - St. Louis Browns were hiding him in Montana to keep other teams from getting him. See SABR bio. box Dillon beat Butte 16-2.
Mohler, Kid 1915 Leggatt of Butte roster listed - full names did not appear in boxes
Lavan, Doc 1912 Dillon playing under assumed name - St. Louis Browns were hiding him in Montana to keep other teams from getting him. See SABR bio. box Dillon beat Butte 16-2.
Mohler, Kid 1915 Leggatt of Butte roster listed - full names did not appear in boxes
"In 1910 the Woodworth/Williams family was farming near the Soldier Creek Schoolhouse. Around this time, 18-year-old Rees began playing baseball for a team made up of the neighboring ranches against the Cascade town team. Williams would next pitch for Cascade, making the 16-mile horseback ride twice a day for 35 cents pay, which barely fed his horse.7 One of the most ardent supporters of the Cascade ball team was Montana legend “Stagecoach” Mary Fields, the first African American woman to carry the U.S. Mail. “For each game she prepared buttonhole bouquets of flowers for each player from her own garden, with larger bouquets reserved for home-run hitters. Any man speaking ill of the local team in her presence could expect a bouquet of knuckles in his face.”8 In the only known photographs of the Cascade ball team around this time, Fields appears in both, while Williams is absent."
https://montanawomenshistory.org/the-life-and-legend-of-mary-fields/ pic of her with Cascade team
1911-4-16 Pic of five Hamilton players, including the towering Weiser Dell.
Fish Pajnich
1959-5-24 Pic - is still bowling
Fish Pajnich
1959-5-24 Pic - is still bowling
1965-10-07 still bowling
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