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Pennsylvania leagues

 Pennsylvania


Philadelphia

1906-4-15 Whole page of pics and info from Philadelphia Inquirer. 
1913-9-07 Pics & misc. 

Industrial League
    1930

    Diehl, Bill 1.19 ERA in 27NENL 1930 Mayfair
    Lai, Buck 1930 Mayfair

Inter-Urban League
    1929 Darby Phantoms
    1930 Darby Phantoms
    1931 Darby Phantoms

    Ellis, Rocky From Darby. Would go on to pitch seven years for Philadelphia Stars. SABR bio

Ed Bolden, who took over Phantoms in 1932 and unsuccessfully tried to turn team into pro touring team:

    1931-6-04 box

Philadelphia Baseball Association
    1922 9-07 standings
    1923 Chester

    Borgmann, Benny 1923-8-20 signed by Red Sox from Chester - hitting .345 with .994 F%
    Lai, Buck 1923 Chester 
    Passon, Chick 1922 SPHAs
    Touchstone, Vernon p milb 1909 (I think) 1923 Lit Bros. 
    
    Lohr, Howard 1923 Chester
      Steen, Bill 1923 Chester 2

    1922-4-05 have stopped negotiating with United Umpires Association
    1922-4-19 Nativity Catholic Club is suspended after letter from Fr. Edward I. Harkins refusing to play with umpires not assigned by Nativity team
    1922-6-09 major clubs of Association want to form Twilight League
    1922-7-06 biggest problem has been laxity in enforcing rules - president got pneumonia and had to stop all baseball activities - new president (George P. Cartwright has been strict in rule
    1922-7-26 arranging title series
    1923-1-29 salary limit of $2700/month
    1923-2-19 league was mostly a financial failure last year because of big salaries 
    1923-3-27 some of the players being signed
    1923-4-09 Pennsylvania Railroad will play in PBA under name of Wilmington Terminal
    1923-5-05 Nativity still outlawed
    1923-5-10 Phila. Colonial Ice Cream is a team in the league
    1923-8-21 lists the teams of the league
    1923-10-14 Chester was 1st half champion
    1924-2-03 league planned. Says Chester won championship last season but were defeated by Hilldale in post-season
    1924-3-01 league is dead - leading teams are in Penn-Jersey League
    1926-2-24 profile of Eddie Ralston as he is signed by Silk Sox - signed by STL in 1921 but when farmed out to Syracuse went home - did not want to play in minors - caught for champ PBA teams in both 1922 and 1923 - played with championship teams 4 straight years
    1942-5-01 retrospective from a distance of 20 yrs - good

    1922-8-26 SPHAS & South Phils scoreless for four 

    1922-8-28 play-offs preview

    1922-8-28 before 5K fans, SPHAs beat Fleisher Yarn 2-0 in 1st game of the elimination contest of the Southern Division
    1922-8-30 10K ATT, SPHAs beat South Phills (Lai, Lohr, Herb Steen, Peploski, Tee etc.) 4-0 at Shetzline Park, South Phils' home- Chick Passon on mound
1922-9-05 8K ATT, Krepps loses to Fleisher Yarn 6-3
    1922-9-06 10K+ ATT, South Phils 4, Fleisher 1
1922-9-07 due to bad weather, only 6K ATT, South Phil (Tesreau) 4, SPHA (Passon) 0

    1923-6-16 Hilldale beats Crane Ice Cream 18-4
    
    1922 SPHAs

    SPHAs misc.

    https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/ed-gottlieb/ NBA HOF - NBA ROY named after him - officer in NNL & co-owner of Philadelphia Stars - by 1930 was premier baseball booking agent in Philadelphia. Also had influence over NYC bookings


    MG
    1922
    SPHAs : Ed Gottlieb
    1923
    Chester : Billy Whitman
    Logan A.A. : Paddy Livingston (MLB)
    Wilmington Termina : "Sos" Winthrop

Philadelphia semi-pro boxes

    1922-8-26
    1922-9-09
    1922-9-10
    1922-9-12
    1922-9-15
    1922-9-16 2

Suburban League
    1929  8-11 standings


    Report on signing Began playing with U. of Penn. in 1892 - league teams were immediately after him, but he spurned their advances. Led the colleges at bat in 1893, and hit .632 in 1894. Played for Cape May in summer, 1892-94. Hit .558 for Orange Athletic Club in 1895. With OAC, played three years in center (1896-1898) without dropping a fly ball. Also was a good football player for OAC, though it's been a few years since he's played it. 
    1898-8-23 Has been recommended to Selee, and may be given a trial.
Westervelt, Huyler NYG - p 1898 Orange Athletic Club (lost 2-9 to Georgetown, NY) - in morning game, Orange lost 8-0, 1K ATT)

OAC
1898-2-15 Will have a strong team, and play at Orange Oval.
1898-5-21 Changing color of handbills to un-Spanish colors.

1898-4-30 Inquirer. OAC 7, Lehigh University 6. Opening day.
1898-5-12 I OAC 9, Cornell 1. 
1898-5-30 I OAC 0, Georgetown 8. OAC 2, Georgetown 9. The first time OAC has been defeated at Orange Oval in three seasons. 
1898-8-04 I OAC 7, Norristown 2.
1898-8-20 Times. Beat All-Scholastic 7-1 - game was played in 1:05. Lists batter walks!




Anthracite League
    1923 
    1924 Mahanoy City


    Daubert, H. fairly sure 1924 Mt. Carmel


   1922-5-03 Weldon Wyckoff will report
    1924-7-27 Bill Morrisette provokes fan riot - stands fans off with bat until police rescues him
    1924-9-18 Mahanoy City had 55-40 record this year. Says what some of the players are going to do now. 
    1924-9-24 claims that Mahanoy City is equal of any IL club (HA - try taking on Baltimore)

    1921 championship series 
    #6 9-23

All-Wilmington League (DE) 
    1915 Vandever final standings
    1916 Brownson  final standings South-Side Eden stats
    1917 final standings

    this league certainly had some major league pitching 

    Greenwell, Ernest p 1916 South-Side Eden box Evening Journal has all boxes
 
    Crouch, Bill p - pitched one g for 1910 SLB - father of Bill Crouch 1917 Vandever
    Myers, Joseph p "Yellow Joe" 1917 New Castle no-hitter

    1915-9-24 Arnold Livermore, Vandever catcher, given trial by Athletics
    1915-9-27 Vandever defeat New Castle, champions of Delaware-Mayland League
    1915-10-05 Charlie Schor, if-p of Eden, dies of blood poisoning. He was 20 years old, and a machinist at the DuPont Powder Company. 
    1916-9-17 Brownson loses to Chinese Students 2-0
    1916-10-14 South-Side Eden team has banquet
    1917-4-20 some contracts listed
    1917-8-10 Frank Glenn MG of a team - lists location of park
    1917-10-06 Delaware boys from league are performing well on the Camp Dix diamond

    1917 Championship series 9-30 #1 Harlan & Hollingsworth 1, New Castle 0. 1K ATT
        10-07 New Castle 3, Harlans 1. 

    August, George "Stoney" 1916 South-Side Eden MG
    Wright, Walter "Red" 1916 South-Side Eden had 13-g hitting streak - part of a series of profiles of team's players

Anthracite League

Atlantic League (PA-DE-NJ)

Bethlehem Steel League
    1920 9-12 standings

    Ehmling, Al 1920 Sparrows Point all boxes, plenty of pros

    Plitt, Norman 1920 Lebanon Philadelphia Inquirer has boxes too
    Weiser, Bud 1920 Steelton
    


Central Penn League
    1935 1st half 8-31

    McLaughlin, Hollis 1935 Milton P-M 41, but 14-1 record

    Roy, Emil 1934 Mifflinburg

    1937-4-30 blow dealt - Juniata River flooded away Lewiston's $20K baseball diamond
            it was a fine park, completed by the aid of large federal grant
            repaired damage from previous year's flood
            no baseball in Lewiston means no more than four teams in Central Penn


Dauphin-Perry-(Juniata) League
    1919 stats
Delaware County League
    1913 8-04 standings
    1914 9-07 standings
    1915
    1916 Media 9-17 standings
    1917 
    1919 7-07 standings
    1921 9-06 standings

    Teal, Harvey p 1914 Clifton Heights made his pro debut at 28 but was good for 8 yrs

      Lohr, Howard of 1913 Upland  1914 Clifton Heights 1916 Brill
    Lord, Bris of "The Human Eyeball" 1916 Upland 1921 Upland

    1914-5-29 two new umpires - player: "Pepper" Brown
    1914-6-01 "Tinney" Turner
    1914-8-10 Captain Tommy Hart of Media - brother of Press Crouthers caught for Chester
    1914-9-07 "Tex" Myers of Tri-State League - Sam Johnson - Joe Normile - etc - Scott threw a ball 127 yds
    1914-9-14 game + other contest
    1914-9-27 Clifton Heights beat Tri-State Stars 4-3
    1915-7-23 controversy with Clifton Heights wanting to leave
    1917-8-08 controversy over Al Mamaux trying to sign with Upland - he does not join them

    MG
    1914
    Chester : Trainor (9-07)
    Clifton Heights White Sox : Frank L. Poth
    Upland White Hippers
    1915
    Upland : Miller
    1921
    President: E.J. Geiger

Delaware-Maryland League
    1915

     1915-9-27 Vandever defeat New Castle, champions of Delaware-Mayland League

Fayette County League
    1954 7-24 standings

    Boniar, Fran hit .435 & .436 in diff seasons 1954 Continental
    Menarchek, Joe k'd 248 at 16 1954 Filbert

Interstate League
    1933

    Farrell, Francis-Leo "Red" long-time EL/NYPL 1b. 1933 Emporium Sylvania Foresters (alt) Team has sixteen year-old catcher.
    Scott, LeGrant 1939 PHI rf. Turned pro as pitcher with Birmingham 1934. 

Lehigh Valley League
    1923
    1924 Northampton 6-28 standings Bethlehem withdrew

    Bareiss, Ed 1924 report "was one of the best hurlers in independent ranks two years ago with Philadelphia Terminal, is staging a comeback in the Lehigh Valley League. Bariess had an off year last year but has apparently recovered his great speed"

    1923-4-10 some signed players incl Jing Johnson
    disbanded 1924-7-12
    
Luzerne County League

    Brazil, John 
Men Valley Baseball League
    1931 
    1932 6-23 standings

Monongahela Valley League
     1925 8-13 standings

    Pros:

    Fred Morris (no BR for tm) 1925 Bentleyville
    Stan Musial 1936 Donora Zinc
    Jack Pezzoni 1925 Monongahela

    Notes:

    1941 6-16 standings

    Bush, Roxy p - war-time EL 1941 Hanover AA sensation of 1940

    Mellus, John NYG - NFL 1938-49. 1941 Breslau


    1941-7-27 NEP League All-Stars 8, Mid-Valley A League All-Stars 6. First game of charity double-header - 750 ATT. 

North Schuylkill League 
    1929
Penn-Jersey League 
    1916 Northampton 7-17 standings

       Clougher, Johnny c NYSL 1916 Belvidere

        1916-5-22 season scheduled
    1916-7-21 Belvidere has withdrawn from league - had really good team made of former NYSL players and NYC area semi-pros, and the cost was too great -  will be replaced by Phillipsburg
    1916-7-24 Washington pitcher Randolph throws at particular batter every at-bat

Penn-Jersey League (vg) 
    1924 7-15 xtra 8-19  
    
    1924 in Camden Morning Post and Philadelphia Inquirer

    Ayau, Vernon 1924 Lit Brothers
    Lai, Buck 1924 Trenton

    Lohr, Howard 1924 Chester
    Lord, Bris 1924 South Phils
    Steineder, Ray pitched 29g in 2 yrs in majors - only years in OB 1924 Trenton
    Swigler, Ad 
    Touchstone, Clay 272 milb wins 1924 Lit Bros

    1925-6-12 after league's disbandment, Camden is considering entering new planned league

    Chester was in league, so Roy Ellam, Howard Lohr etc. 

    MG
    1925
    Camden : Lou Schaub

Pennsylvania Motive Railroad Power League
    1918 
Pennsylvania Railroad
    1919 

     w/ Hilty  1919-9-14  

Pennsylvania Railroad General Office Championship
    1923 

    1923-9-18 Philadelphia Terminal 3, Auditor of Revenue 1.
    Ringers (?) like Buck Lai, Howard Lohr etc
    1923-10-05 Auditor of Revenue was league champ - roster listed
 
Pennsylvania State League
    1926 8-19 standings


Perry-Juniata League
    1929 Champ: Blain


South Anthracite League 
    1926 Champ: New Philadelphia standings New Phil.
    1927 Champ: Cressona (?) 8-19 standings
    1928 Champ: St. Clair (?) 8-3 standings
    1929 Champ: Pine Grove 
    1930 Monahan: St. Clair Kantner: Schuylkill Haven 1

    President: K.F. Monahan, 1926 

    Profiles:
    News:


South Philadelphia League
    1924

    Gerner, Ed 1924 South Phillies
    Lord, Bris 1924 South Phillies

Susquehanna League
    1909
    1910

    Crossin, Frank (MLB) 1910 Nanticoke/Bloomsburg

    1910 Nanticoke roster

Tri-County League
    1941 7-14 standings 

    Rhawn, Bob if  1941 Berwick ACF 22 - already had three years as pro

    1941-4-01 Will play 28 games. Lou Lustig is league president. Season will open 4-26.
    1941-9-02 All-Stars v. Glen Lyons of NEP. Lots of hitting. Rhawn 5-for-5 with two homers.

Two-Team League
    1919 Franklin batting/fielding/pitching & final standings
    1921  Franklin final stats Oil City final stats + final standings 

    Peterson, Lewis 1919 Franklin

    Harris, Joe very good 1920 Franklin
    Layden, Gene NYY * 11 yrs between pro appearances * 1919 Franklin 
    Meador, Johnny 1920 Oil City 1921 Oil City
    Sisler, George (briefly) 1919 Franklin
    
    1920-7-30 Bill Nixon is a "crab"
    1920-9-26 a ton of things went wrong with Franklin's players
    1920-10-01 a record of every game Oil City played - 78-42
    1920-11-20 a record of every game Franklin played - for the season they were 60-42-1
    1921-6-02 vg article about the league's umpires
    1921-12-21 stuff about Sisler, Joe Harris, Ed Collins, Lefty Bayne
        Bayne pitched some for Franklin in 1919, but demanded $200/mo in 1920 so was not signed

    1919 Franklin Scott Perry/Gene Layden pics

    1919-10-03 Oil City 4, Franklin 3. play by play - Wilbur Cooper pitching for Oil City
    1919-10-04/05 10/04: Oil City 6, Franklin 5. 10-05: Franklin 6, Kane 0. 
        Sisler hobbling around in right field because he hurt his ankles in game
        field meet on 10-04

    MG
    1919
    Franklin : Nixon/Harry O'Donnell
    1920
    Franklin : John Brackenridge
    Oil City : Jake Pitler

    Parks:
    Franklin : Miller-Sibley Field


Wyoming Valley League
    1923


Team averages:
1894 Franklin

Pros: 
Drugmond, Joe five solid seasons in MATL - p 1923 Beaver Falls
Konnick, Andrew 1909 Brookside brother of Mike Konnick Anthracite
Miller, Joe 1923 Union Tool pitcher - outfielder in EL in 1925
Swigart, J.D. 17-11, 3.40, .287 in B in only pro year 1919 Kittanning New Bethlehem 
        1924 Cressona Tigers


MLB:

             1928 Bradford
Kay, Bill 1919 Klein Chocolate odd style of batting
             1922 Mahanoy City
                1923 Chester       1925 Catasauqua
Rheam, Cy 1923 Bellevue
        1922 Lit Bros.
Steen, Bill 1921 Cressona 
    1925 Charleroi 
Titus, John 1902 Pottsville organized from SABR bio: "After Company K disbanded, Titus returned home and played basketball for a team in St. Clair that decided to all grow moustaches. He ended up keeping his throughout most of his baseball career, at a time when very few players sported facial hair."
Wagner, Honus 1919 Wagner's Stars

Lancaster New Era (1923) carried box scores for Hershey, Klein Chocolate, and others

Notes:

1924 Allentown Dukes  w/ Mush Higgins pic about to set out for second annual tour of Puerto Rico.
         Very good team. end of year retrospective
    
1925-9-21 Suburbans will face Hilldale - have Mush Higgins, Buck Lai, "Jew" Riegert etc in line-up
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