https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn83045782/1914-12-27/ed-1/seq-17/#words=Akana
https://ourgame.mlblogs.com/the-pcl-and-the-color-line-f3033b00ed55
Tuesday, October 31, 2023
Walter McCredie wanted to integrate PCL in 1914
Hume Le Prince Battiste
Black (mixed-race) - deaf-mute
1914-5-23 with Helena Senators - 1914 Helena Senators BR stint not listed on either BR or Shadowball
1914-6-26 with Edmonton Eskimos 1914 Edmonton BR stint not listed on either BR or Shadowball
article says Calgary players are former teammates
1915-5-15 (WA) for Springdale, beats Colville 7-6
"When a ball team has the pitcher crippled, and the catcher, first baseman and an outfielder go fishing and then auto 45 miles before the game, as was the case in the Colville team last Sunday, it is no wonder they could not win."
1915-7-03 beats Colville 3-0
1919-1-03 joins Goodyear Mutes in Akron
1919-6-26 for Minden, loses 7-6 to Loomis (NE game)
1920-7-01 for Minden, loses 4-3 to Hastings Grays
1921-5-12 beats Wilcox 10-2
1921-6-30 faces team with Earl Averill Sr.
1921-7-22 for Minden Wildcats, loses 2-1 to Blue Hill - play by play
Albert "Smiley" Clayton
NOT Zachary "Smiley" Clayton comment clarifies:
my dude is Albert "Smiley" Clayton - (1904-69)
"Albert is the one pictured in the 1946 Oakland Larks uniform, I believe the image is from the Oakland Museum. Albert “Smiley” Clayton was born in Kansas. He and Foy Scott were longtime teammates from the Reno, Nevada area (1933-35 Scott Motors of Reno, 1936-37 Verdi Nine, and 1938 Reno Brewery teams) with Jimmy Claxton. The three integrated these semi-pro teams. Albert went on to play for the California Eagles and finally the Larks with Scott. He was a well-regarded power-hitting catcher in semi-pro circles. Seems Zach stayed east of the Mississippi. With great respect, Ty Phelan."
my dude is Albert "Smiley" Clayton - (1904-69)
"Albert is the one pictured in the 1946 Oakland Larks uniform, I believe the image is from the Oakland Museum. Albert “Smiley” Clayton was born in Kansas. He and Foy Scott were longtime teammates from the Reno, Nevada area (1933-35 Scott Motors of Reno, 1936-37 Verdi Nine, and 1938 Reno Brewery teams) with Jimmy Claxton. The three integrated these semi-pro teams. Albert went on to play for the California Eagles and finally the Larks with Scott. He was a well-regarded power-hitting catcher in semi-pro circles. Seems Zach stayed east of the Mississippi. With great respect, Ty Phelan."
1926-4-06 apparently also boxer
1926-5-24 playing cf - hit 5th HR of season - in Central AZ League
1926-6-28 lose 24-10 to Commercial League All-Stars
1926-8-02 Phoenix Colored Giants - 3b - hit HR
1927-4-25 with Phoenix Colored Giants in Central League - beat Ray-Sonora 7-2 as pitcher
1929-6-16 with Phoenix Colored Giants
1931-8-20 leading Phoenix Colored Giants with .418 average - team has won 21 and lost 4
manager of the club
1931-8-23 will play Southern Pacific Lines for state championship - says Clayton has hit 16 homers
1931-8-24 yesterday Phoenix Colored Giants beat S.P. Lines 13-11 - Casa Grande Stars have challenged Giants to match - Clayton yet to decide whether he will refuse
1932-9-02 catcher-pitcher for Scott Motors
1935-4-19 Scott Motors
1936-5-24 Reno Garage catcher - hits triple - they defeat St. Louis Blues
1937-9-25 "Reno-Susanville athletic war continues Sunday"
1938-6-12 Bud Beasley's catcher for Susanville, beat Washington Browns 4-3
1938-6-19 lost to Washington Browns 7-6
1938-8-28 beat Fallon 16-14 - Fallon has lefty 2b
1938-9-4 beat Alturas 13-5, Beasley & Smiley Clayton both homer
1943-4-12 opening game of California Eagles - defeat Cincinnati Rookies 8-5
after Clayton hit 3-run HR in 10th
1944-8-13 for California Eagles - homers and doubles
1945-9-23 Pierce's Giants beat SP Stores
1948-6-05 California Tigers won Raimondi Winter League
1948-6-12 with California Negro Tigers - team has won 27 of 32
1949-6-03 California Tigers
Willie "Tat" Mays played with California Tigers
West Coast Black Clubs
https://shadowballexpress.wordpress.com/tag/california-eagles/ lots of pics - lots abt Pierce Giants
an embarrassment of riches
1943-9-16 California Eagles will play two games v. Oakland Oaks - roster given
Saturday, October 28, 2023
Ernie Lindemann
1906-10-06 With Elizabeth Stars, beats Chatham 5-0
1911-8-27 Wins 9-0 for Plainfield
1912-8-25 Wins 27-7 for Plainfield - made six hits, three of which were long enough for home runs if he had cared to run - a cartoon of him - "big blonde German"
1917-8-05 Wins 10-3 for Chippewas over College Points- hits home run
1904-7-03 has violated contract with Toledo - teams banned from playing against him
1906-4-30 to pitch with Brightons
1906-8-30 Lindemann now with Loughlins - part owner
1908-7-13 Hussey accepts challenge from Brightons for five-game series
1908-9-01 Al Farmer filling in at catcher for Brooklyn Superbas
1913-5-27 Lindeman-Hohman battery praised. Ridgewoods broken up by ban on Sunday baseball - since death of Al Farmer, Lindeman only pitches w/ Hohman
1913-5-29 Al Farmer is dead
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
Tuesday, October 24, 2023
Bud Beasley
1937-5-23 pic giving prize to kid
1938-10-30 pic as half-back
1941 pic w/ Mike Salinsen
1942 pic in action of throwing
1954-6-29 pic good profile - only grandfather playing in WINT
lives in Reno, divorce capital "That Reno's kind of a seaport town, what with the tied running in and the untied running out." (groan)
1935-9-14 named U. of Nevada freshman football coach
1937-11-17 Reno town team organized, first club game in Reno in years. Beasley is a long, accurate thrower of spirals.
1937-8-15 Chism Ice Cream pitcher, lost no-hitter with two outs in 9th in game v. Camp Reno soldiers
1938-6-12 pitching for Susanville, beat Washington Browns 4-3
1938-6-19 lost to Washington Browns 7-6
1938-8-28 beat Fallon 16-14 - Fallon has lefty 2b
1938-9-4 beat Alturas 13-5, Beasley & Smiley Clayton both homer
1939-5-30 beat Stockton Amblers 3-2
1939-8-01 in softball, leading league in batting. In baseball, to pitch for Sierra Royals against Kansas City Monarchs.
1939-8-02 W/ Sierra Royals v. House of David
1939-9-24 With Reno Garage, will pitch against Southern Pacific Stores, semi-pro champs of Oakland tourney- visitors may bring PCL players
1939-9-24 defeated SP Store 6-3 - have beat them three times this year so could claim unofficial championship - prob. could have won if entered Oakland tourne
1941-4-27 opened season by beating Ogden Reds of Pioneer League 2-1.
1941-6-04 shutout league-leading Lovelock club 8-0 - struck out 13. "The durable southpaw had the batters on edge with his "psychological" windup and continual throws to first..."
1941-6-07 "rocking chair wind-up"
1941-6-10 Sierra Nevada League teams making offers to Beasley. some opinions as to the fittingness of this alt pretty interesting
1942-4-23 team getting put together
1942-5-01 Threikel, Beasley, & Capriotti to recruit players - club will use Jack Threikel's park
1942-6-23 scoreless streak at 29 in relief outing
1942-7-23 usually the king of the dugout jockeys, Beasley has been silent for the last week - laryngitis
1942-8-07 Reno Garage batting
1945-7-08 idol of Sacramento fans - has rooting section devoted to him - "clowning and eccentric wind-ups wow fans"
1945-7-26 "specializes in 'psychologizing' opposing batsmen with crazy windups"
1946-3-01 got nice raise - talks of how San Francisco Seals are making nice $$$ by having spring-training in baseball-mad Hawaii
1946-8-26 "Dick (Kewpie) Barrett, Portland's roly poly pitcher, did an excellent job imitating Bud Beasley's delivery. And the next inning Beasley appeared on the first base coaching line with a pillow inside his uniform, which gave him the general appearance of Barrett. The fans got a big kick out of the comedy."
1953-6-21 pitching for Threikel's Cubs, beats SP Stores
1947-5-23 Reno Silver Sox to hold night for him
1947-5-29 Bud Beasley Night
1985-4-25 "Mr. Educator" - party for his 50th year as a Nevada "coach-teacher-friend"
"in those early years, Beasley would take off summers and pitch" in the PCL. "Known as 'the clown prince of West Coast pitchers', left-hander Beasley was noted for his humor and sly diamond tricks..."
Casey Stengel said "When I was managing the Oaks Beasley drove me crazy."
"in those early years, Beasley would take off summers and pitch" in the PCL. "Known as 'the clown prince of West Coast pitchers', left-hander Beasley was noted for his humor and sly diamond tricks..."
Casey Stengel said "When I was managing the Oaks Beasley drove me crazy."
1985-5-09 profile/pics
2004-7-20 Obit w/ pic makes front page
2005-5-18 "Foundation to carry on Bud Beasley's legacy of helping kids"
2015-8-30 same pic as in obit but in color - anecdote abt PCL days
https://elementaryschools.org/directory/nv/cities/sparks/bud-beasley-elementary-school/320048000432/
https://elementaryschools.org/directory/nv/cities/sparks/bud-beasley-elementary-school/320048000432/
Dakota Leagues
Dakota League
1923
Brandt, Ed 1923 Aberdeen Doing great - after he left Seattle, discouraged that he wasn't getting a chance, Seattle sold him to Aberdeen.
Bandelin, Oscar p-of 1900 Sioux Falls Canaries. 1900-8-13 Recalled by Minneapolis.
Blanford, Fred c 1899 Sioux Falls 1900 Sioux Falls Canaries
Starnagle, George c - 1g with CLE 1899 Sioux Falls 1900 Sioux Falls Canaries 1.2K ATT - great game - two combined errors in 11 innings. 125 Flandreu rooters came to game on special train - bet freely.
Bandelin, Oscar p-of 1900 Sioux Falls Canaries. 1900-8-13 Recalled by Minneapolis.
Blanford, Fred c 1899 Sioux Falls 1900 Sioux Falls Canaries
Starnagle, George c - 1g with CLE 1899 Sioux Falls 1900 Sioux Falls Canaries 1.2K ATT - great game - two combined errors in 11 innings. 125 Flandreu rooters came to game on special train - bet freely.
1900-8-13 Starnagle offered Minneapolis contract at $150/month - refuses to stay with local club.
team not same as 1900 Sioux City Cornhuskers (WL)
1900-9-18 End of season banquet for Sioux Falls Canaries. Says where players are going - they are all going to their respective homes. One will join a theatrical troupe which is touring.
Idaho Leagues
Alfalfa Valley League
1920 Boise 5-17 standings + play by play. 7-05 standings
1920-7-15 After clinching pennant Boise players do not care about remaining four games. Manager Cordes is annoyed. He is arranging post-season games with S-I and Snake River League clubs. He requests all players be at ball park by 5 today for a panorama to be taken of the team.
Boise Valley League
1908 Boise Shamrocks 7-09 standings
1908-6-10 league organized.
1908-7-04 Shamrocks will appear for first time in new uniforms in today's game. A number of S-I players will appear in the lineup for Nampa.
1908-7-09 Shamrocks and Boise Athletics will play game for purse of $200
1908-7-30 Falk Mercantile will like to join
1908-8-16 Shamrocks called champions; roster listed.
1908-6-21 attendance of several hundred
Idaho-Oregon League
1948
Idaho-Washington League
1925 Upstairs Price 6-28 standings
Brandt, Ed 1925 Upstairs Price 1926 Cour d' Alene
1925-6-28 Ed Brandt signed by Upstairs Price
1925-6-30 Earl Dunlap, top lefty of the northwest, declared to be in a class with Ed Brandt.
1925-6-28 Ed Brandt signed by Upstairs Price
1925-6-30 Earl Dunlap, top lefty of the northwest, declared to be in a class with Ed Brandt.
offered a contract by White Sox but unable to come to terms - pitched in Blue Mountain League
this year
Northern Idaho League
Northern Idaho League
1924
Bonner, Al 127 pro wins 1924 Kellogg loses 9-1
Southern Idaho League - very little coverage 1908-10.
1907 5-06 standings
1908
1909 Nampa
1910
1911 Buhl 8-06 standings
1912-1915 did not play
1917 6-28 standings
1918 did not play
1919 Rupert final standings (for 3 top teams) final 2nd half standings
1920 Buhl Paul & Oakley dropped out early in season. 8-09 standings
1920 Buhl Paul & Oakley dropped out early in season. 8-09 standings
1921-22 did not play
1923 Jerome
Bartholemy, Al 1919 Paul MG-c
Evans, Rube 1919 Rupert
Osborne, Johnson Hit .295 in 77 games for Oakland in 1923 but had .883 fielding as outfielder
died 1924-10-03
1919 Rupert - led league in home runs
died 1924-10-03
1919 Rupert - led league in home runs
Reppy, Gay p five separate cups of coffee in AA - in only full pro season was 13-11 for
Johnson Walter 1907 Weiser league schedule ends 7-14 - at end Walter's contract shall expire and he will go to Washington DC 75 shut-out innings 7-27 leaves for DC
Pillette, Herman 1919 Paul hired for a game
Stroud, Sailor 1919 Rupert
1919 Rupert pic - champions of Idaho
https://attheplate.com/wcbl/1909_1.html 1907 note
bio of Rube Evans - brought emery ball with him in time with Rupert which was not appreciated
1907-4-13 nicknames of the clubs. Team rosters listed. Plenty of pros.
1908-3-08 Harkness, the big Californian, has contract to pitch for Boise.
1908-3-12 about forming a new league, of lesser quality.
1908-4-09 Mountain Home had good club in S-I last year; should organize a team again this year.
1908-5-28 scores.
1908-6-04 Boise team incorporated - $25,000 of stock issued. The players signed for stock.
1908-6-13 Directors of Boise club called into court for failure to pay for baseball uniforms. Prominent business men among the directors. Amount due: $260.35 to H. Seller & Co. Boise's team may need to disband. If Boise drops out of S-I the league may die.
1908-10-04 Since the days when John McCloskey managed Boise we never had so good a team until our current Boise Shamrocks. "Hundreds of dollars have been expended to import men here to play one or two games a week in the Southern Idaho League"
1909-7-22 picked nine will play Nampa.
1910-4-21 opening games 4-24.
1911-5-11 league organized and schedule given.
1911-7-25 league contains keen rivalry and good ball. Awakening interest in baseball.
1911-11-03 W.E. May died 10-30 of typhoid fever.
He managed the pennant-winning Buhl club this year.
1916-5-04 Twins Falls places its trust in Kelly, former NESL pitcher who was marvelous last year.
1916-5-11 schedule ad for opening game
1916-9-19 Shoshone was winner of first half, Twins Falls was winner of second half. League is determining whether championship series will run three or five games.
1916-9-21 Series will be best-of-three. Ruled that no player can play in series who did not play one game for team during season. Rupert attempted to convince the league to overturn the games in which Robinson played for Twins Falls against Rupert, which would had given the 2nd half championship to Rupert. Robinson had been signed by Twins Falls at the beginning of the season and Rupert wanted to buy him for $40, and even though Rupert did not pay the money Robinson played a time with them before coming back to Twins Falls. The league ruled this was no cause for forfeiting.
1916-9-30 Jerome of S-I will play Glenns Ferry at Elywhee Festival.
1917-2-22 Buhl is considering filling the vacancy in the league left by Kimball. (they did not)
1917-7-11 league died. Twins Falls disbanded - only three teams left. The remaining three teams will attempt to find a fourth, and if they succeed a new league will be instituted. (seems like they failed)
1919-8-22 Burley's averages during trip to Boise.
1919-8-24 1200 fans - Rupert 2nd half champions if they beat Burley next week, Burley first half champs - series to be played between 'em
1919-9-05 Report on Rupert players.
1919-9-26 Pitcher Alexander of Paul signed by Sacramento
1919-10-05 big article in Salt Lake Tribune on report.
1919-10-11 Burley Herald corrects error in article.
1920-2-26 The Rupert team will be financially aided by the Commercial club. Rupert has a deal pending with a PCL team for a battery.
1920-5-08 Ad for game between Burley of S-I and Blackfoot of Snake River. Tickets are 75 cents.
1920-8-25 Report of doubtful veracity that Bill Gleason, former S-I catcher, has joined Pittsburgh NL.
1921-1-02 "The Buhl baseball team had $45 in the treasury after all expenses of the season were paid, according to report of Joe Boyd, manager. The team won the championship of the Southern Idaho League, and claims the championship of the state by virtue of victories over Boise and Pocatello, champions, respectively, in the Alfalfa and Yellowstone leagues.
"I heard the other day that there has been some talk of having a Southern Idaho League next season, and right here let me say, that if the fans won't patronize 25-cent baseball, played by boys that don't get anything but abuse for their services, I can't see how a team that has paid players on it is going to make good." By 25-cent baseball the author was referring to the local league, whose games were unfairly unpatronized.
1922-3-31 league organized. Nothing else showed up for it in search for "Southern Idaho League."
"Each team will be allowed to import two men but salaries at limited to $75 a month, thereby making jobs one big item in getting men." Interesting - would have to provide a job to draw a player.
"Each team is to contribute $50 to a season's purse, hung up for the pennant grabbers and chasers. The winning team is to get $200 of this amount while the runner-up will drawn down another $100. Each team is to post a $300 surety bond that the season will be completed."
1923-5-25 schedule.
1923-7-27 Game ad. Admission: 35 cents.
1909-4-25 scores of opening games. 100 rooters accompanied Emmett on road game.
1916-5-14 Twin Falls 4, Kimberly 3. 15 innings.
1916-5-15 Rupert 7, Burley 5. 700 ATT.
1917-5-06 opening
1919-8-14 box!
1919-8-24 box
1919-8-31 Burley 7, Rupert 5. 1800 ATT - largest crowd of season.
1920-5-16 opening: three games. Burkley 4, Oakley 2. ATT 700.
Buhl 10, Paul 8. Attendance 3000. "A special train brought the Paul team and about 500 Paul fans to the opening game. Two bands, representing Buhl and Paul, furnished music between innings and helped root for their favorites.
former MLB Chick Fraser is manager of Jerome.
Western Idaho League
1923 Emmett 7-23 standings
1923-7-22 misc. player news.
State tournament:
1948 Nampa
Coursey, Del p (I think) 1948 Nampa turned pro at 25 and was good in C
1948-7-28 tournament all-star named
1948-4-21 Hank Matsubu signed by Payette.
Pros:
1915-8-02 Caldwell has arranged three game series with Twins Falls, supposed to have one of the best teams in Southern Idaho.
1920-7-04 Pocatello Indians sign two new players
1920-7-27 Barney Kerns has resigned as manager and Fallentine has resigned as catcher; they have been replaced by Bill Rose and former Coast-Leaguer Bill Gleason.
drawing of him
drawing of him
Nevada Leagues
Nevada State League
Reno 10, Goldfield 0. Reno has Baer and Broadbent.
1907-6-16 Carson City 14, Tonopah 4.
Swanson, Baer, Lucera, and Broadbent have jumped to Carson City.
"Carson may thank the boys from Reno for their victory today. And right here it may be apropos to mention in refutation of some ill-natured remarks that have been circulated about Reno concerning the circumstances of the jumping of Swanson, Baer, Lucera and Broadbent, that there was practically nothing else for the boys to do. They came to Reno, expecting to get their expenses paid and to get jobs. Neither materialized, except that one, Swanson, secured a position. There was no guarantee whatsoever extended them as to the future, consequently, when they received an offer from Carson, they signed up."
In first league game, Goldfield beat Reno 9-8. (no box) Immense crowd - as if it were a prize fight.
1907-6-23 With standings.
Carson 5, Reno 3.
"The dispute over Yeazell was settled last night, Reno conceding Carson's priority to the ownership of the crack Californian. It appears that both teams sent Yeazell transportation to report and the Carson management fully convinced President North and Manager Conway that Yeazell received their transportation first. Yeazell will play with Carson today."
1907-6-22 from Tonopah Bonanza
"Several years ago, when this town was in its infancy and the mines of Tonopah were being heralded as the richest and biggest in the commonwealth, the people of Tonopah were known as the best boosters in the country. But since the mineral wealth of the district has been proven and Tonopah has become an established city there has been a gradual decline of this boosting spirit. But now there is need to reawaken that spirit now for Tonopah is to have a baseball team and it will need the co-operation of every single individual to make our national game a success.
John T. Powers the minor league organizer, has succeeded in forming the four principal cities in the Sagebrush state into what will be called the Nevada State League...
The league, thus organized, will continue year after tear, waxing greater with the growth of the state until it occupies a prominent place among the minor leagues of the United States. It assures the four towns and the surrounding territory a season of rare sport, naturally exhilirating [sic] and exciting; a place to go on Saturday and Sunday afternoons where the week day cares and worries can be dispelled by an afternoon of enjoyment.
You have seen what Goldfield has done; they have raised a fund sufficient for the needs of them for the whole season and the crowd turned out in such numbers, during the first season with Reno, that the grandstand could not hold half the people who went to the game.
What Tonopah needs, primarily, is a sum of money not over $800 or $900 to build a grandstand and fence in at least two sides of the grounds. There is no reason why this sum of money cannot be raised in two hours among the enterprising citizens of Tonopah...
The Tonopah management will immediately send a man to California to get two pitchers and a couple of other men and when they arrive the Tonopah team will be as strong as any in the league and will start at once to climb the rounds of the percentage ladder. It will be up to the merchants and mining companies to furnish positions for these men."
Mr. Booth is manager of Tonopah team.
1907-7-01 Poem written by "Amelia of Sparks" about the Reno baseball club. Gazette speculates on characteristics of Amelia, who though a subscriber has not revealed her true identity.
Naming contest for team is closed.
1907-7-13 Personnel changes.
" 'Teddy' Baer is now the captain-manager of the Carson City nine."
1907-8-07 "Jack Swanton, one of the stars of the Reno baseball nine during the short league season, received a telegram yesterday from "Tonopah Johnny" Hopkins, offering him a place on the Alameda nine in the California league. Swanton has accepted the offer."
1907-8-03 "Goldfield is going to send out a base ball team under the direction of John T. Powers. The club will play in 35 different citie. It is said the Clark road has provided a buffet car, and the trip will cost $50,000."
1907-8-10 "The trip of the Goldfield baseball club East has been abandoned, and the players are now busy trying to collect the money due them, amounting from $40 to $100 apiece."
"It is proposed to have the same towns, Reno, Carson City, Tonopah and Goldfield and two or four more new towns. At Carson City it is reported that the owners of Shaw's springs will build an electric line and a ball park at the springs, which will make the capital city a paying proposition. They supported their team by subscription this year - paying every man a monthly salary..
The street car line to Moana springs in Reno will be completed and the owners of that resort are going to build a park and are very much in favor of financing a team. The Tonopah crowd built their park this year and it is naturally understood that the sister city of Goldfield will need no coaxing to enter the 1908 league."
Sierra Nevada League
1942 -6-06 averages
Western Nevada League
Beasley, Bud 1937 Sons of Italy made pro debut in PCL in 1944 at 33 - pitched well in pros until 1951
1938-3-26 Claxton managed Verdi last year
1938-5-15 Foy Scott, Claxton, and Smiley Clayton all on Reno Brewery team - all black
1938-6-19 Claxton, oldest in league, will face Percy Jensen, youngest.
1938-7-17 Hank Mosconi day to be held - profits will be given to Hank Mosconi, who lost arm in hit & run auto accident on highway last year.
Smith, Oakie 1942
1941-8-08 Lovelock has pro
1907-8-03 Reno Victors lineup - will play Verdi tomorrow.
1907-8-03 Ely will meet picked team of Welshon's. $300 side bet. Lineup of teams given. Welshon's has some decent players.
Ely team described as champions.
1907-8-05 It was a good game - but the score is not mentioned in write-up!
1907-8-03 Ruby Hill and Eureka will play two games for $100 per side per game. Rosters listed.
"Some little difficulty is experienced in securing the services of some capable person to umpire the games, but so far no one has been found with nerve enough to tackle the job."
1907-8-17 Tonopah, managed by Rounsevell, will play Pullmans, colored team. "Young Peter Jackson, the fighter, will pitch." It will be last game in which O'Banion and Hoag play, because they are returning soon to their California homes.
1907-8-24 W/box. Tonopah 10, Pullman 3. Powell was the Pullman pitcher, not Jackson. O'Banion struck out 16 and Hoag caught. 17 total errors in game. Tonopah turned triple play.
1907-8-22 Taken from Reno Gazette of twenty years ago:
"The amateur baseball club of Carson will be at the State fair to play ball with any club in the state of Nevada, the Esmeralda baseball club not excepted. They are willing to make a match with any club, and are not afraid to meet any outside clubs."
From 1908 Reach Guide.
John T. Powers was writer and president of Nevada State League.
https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/john-t-powers/ Founded the Federal League.
Reno Larks
Monday, October 23, 2023
British Columbia Leagues
Vancouver Senior City League
1923 stats
1926 6-26 standings
1932
1935-6-01 A ton of misc. interesting info
1935-6-01 also + misc. info - Pat Shea before 1st game only threw 4 warm-up pitches & walked 10
1935-6-22 importations discussed
1935-7-06 "Earl Lewis calls Ray O'Dell a 1:30 hitter" - a guy who hits well in batting practice
but not in games - various stuff, including abt umpires
but not in games - various stuff, including abt umpires
1935-8-03 a recounting of screwy player antics
1935-8-06 Ernie Paepke a manager
1935-8-31 Lodi is writer's pick for MVP - "In fact, Mussolini will probably be sending for him soon to be squishing the Ethiopians out. He'd likely to do it single-handed." 'kay. Learned to bunt w/ Vancouver
letter: "The enclosed is the left hind foot of a rabbit shot by a cross-eyed, red-headed, colored gentleman at the full of the moon, in a Mormon cemetery, at midnight of Friday the thirteenth, on the grave of a left-handed Swedish pitcher, who was clubbed to death by his manager for stealing second with the bases full. Wear this and you will go out and take four straight from the Homes."
1935-10-05 A pic with Daro Lodigiani ("Lodi") and Marcel Serventi with Oakland
1935-11-05 pet quotes of varying people - including some from the league
1923 pics
1935 pics incl Dario Lodigiani,
1923 pics
1935 pics incl Dario Lodigiani,
Ed Henry 1935-7-06
1935-6-01 Andy Padovan/ Hal Weinker
https://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=78684 30s card mentioned (archived)
https://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=78684 30s card mentioned (archived)
says Nat Bailey signed Lodigiani (& others) on CA scouting trip
1943
1944 6-19 standings
1946
Clarkson, Reg good - not sure why his career was so short 1944 Arrows
Edy, Roswell .346 1939WINT 1944 Arrows
Clovechok, Andy pro hockey 1945 Norvans 2
1943-9-12 Torgeson has stolen home in 3 straight games Bells were 20-1-2 at home
1944-6-19 Daniel Holden has complained that the left field fence at Girard street is too close
1945-12-31 "lion-hearted throwing of rubber-armed Joe Faria" Zane Hickok hit in 15 straight
Padovan, Andy 1944
1944
Bellingham MG: Joe Martin
Play-offs:
1945-9-11 Bellingham 9, A&Q 6
Finals
1945-9-12 Norvans 9, Bellingham 3.
1945-9-14 Norvans 9, Bellingham 0. In play-offs, Ray Orteig has 4 W, 64K, 38.1 IP, 9R, 24H - much better than Joe Faria
1945-9-11 Bellingham 9, A&Q 6
Finals
1945-9-12 Norvans 9, Bellingham 3.
1945-9-14 Norvans 9, Bellingham 0. In play-offs, Ray Orteig has 4 W, 64K, 38.1 IP, 9R, 24H - much better than Joe Faria
1945-9-16 Norvans 8, Bellingham 3. 1500ATT
Vancouver Terminal League
1934 7-24 batting Asahis have more than 2x as many stolen bases as any other team
Pros:
McQuade ss cup of coffee in PCL 1908 Victoria Wonders
"Victoria was represented by President Leonard A. Wattelet, who has done much to make semi-professional ball popular in the island city...
Victoria will get several players from other clubs."
1910-11-08 It is likely that today the Royal Athletic Park will "pass from the hands of the Royal Park Association into the control of the syndicate which is supporting the professional ball nine."
The park has never been a financial success.
1910-12-06 Team has seven players sewn up. Two new additions signed by Eddie Householder who scouted in California for several weeks.
Wattelet has played with Victoria for three years and run the club for two. It is due to his efforts that Victoria has acquired "the advertising incident to baseball. That feature alone is worth thousands of dollars to a city."
Victoria has play by play for all games.
Northwest League did not have balanced scheduling - some teams spent 70% of games on road, some at home.
Pictures of all the players - Johnny Williams & Jack Roche. Very good resource.
Both Surphlis and Wattelet died in WWI.
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