Sunday, September 24, 2023

Hawaii pros


born in Hawaii but did not play there:
Tony Robello MLB

Military:

Bates, Del played service ball in HI during time in Navy; was in Navy 1959-62. (Source: 1970 PCL guide)

Vernon Ayau


Neil Blaisdell on BR


Rolland Brown BR



Barney Joy (XTRA)
Francis Bernard Joy
Born: 1882-1-27 
Died: 1938-5-25
1938 obit has good summary of life outside of baseball including post-career pic
WT: 215 source more generally known as 200+
SABR bio

1907-2-17 Barney Joy beats Johnny Williams in benefit game w/ pic
large crowd out to see Joy pitch for last time before leaving for PCL

year in PCL: 

1907-8-23 Babe Reuter, who Joy used to catch, wants to come to US and has offer from Portland. Jack Huston offered $4500 for Joy. Some club will probably have draft put in for him but he can be covered up somehow. "after game crowd of patriotic small boys attempted to carry him off field on shoulders"
Best liked on team. Rooters shout at him "hickey-hickey" instead of "wikiwiki"

1908-2-15 Dick Reuter signed by SF; Joy by Boston NL
1913-7-19 Barney Joy says sorry for being ungentlemanly Honolulu Advertiser puts on the heavy
1921-8-11 is this him?

1932 account of St. Louis College sports history - H.A.C. was a team of SLC alumni
        had Henry Oana too
1938 obit good account of time w/ H.A.C. 

 Len Kasparovitch   (Len Kasparovich (Japanese League) also him)

1946 w/ Bill Azevedo is offered San Francisco Seals contract good pic - Seals had series with Hawaii         All-Stars  Azevedo on BR
1952 Waikiki 8-1 record
1957 Honolulu Asahis outstanding player of tournament
1960 Red Sox good action pic

Bunji Kashiwaeda aka Dick Kashiwaeda
 

Buck Lai
Charles Luis milb/Japan 



Bill Nishita Japan/milb




Johnnie Williams 1914 DET
"Honolulu Johnny"
1911 pic nice quality

1907 Oahu Senior League * Saints 1907-2-23
1910 * National Guard * 1910-3-27
1919 Oahu Service League * St. Louis 1919-5-03

1925 Hawaii Commercial League 3-14 En Sue, Johnny Williams




25th Infantry - Bullet Rogan


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