Monday, October 23, 2023

Jimmy Claxton


1914 Portland Hubbard Giants team pic

1917 Ipswich, ND
1919-5-12 Tie 2-2 with Halton-Didiers - Claxton does not pitch full game
        opposing pitcher is MLB Pruiett, Tex
1919-6-23 Claxton k's 19 against Dominic Limiteds/ milb Heinie Lay in 3-3 tie.  box
    San Leandro C.L. Best Tractors will play championship series with Shasta Limiteds, colored club. "An automobile parade of Shasta fans will be held from Oakland to San Leandro"
1919-7-06 Defeat Halton-Didiers 4-3 in 10-inning game before 3K+ fans. 
1919-7-13 Best Tractors 6, Shastas 4. Babe Danzig wins with double. MLB John Gillespie wins. 
1919-8-10 Shastas bring new pitcher from LA. 
1920-3-08 loses 0-5 to Best Tractors & Gene Caldera
1920-3-29 K's 13 but loses 6-2 to Oakland Moose.
1920-4-01 Shasta Limiteds have two stars in Carlisle Perry & Goldie Davis - have accepted contract to play with L.A. White Sox - White Sox are one of few teams to pay straight salary
1920-8-21 Shastas to play Sperry Flour - Chet Bost is MG

1922-10-05 Pierce's Colored Giants - formed out of Oakland's colored center - 1200 ATT evry wk
        Claxton not on team

1928-8-27 w/ Yakima
1929-8-10 "has been making batting tough for several seasons in the Yakima valley"

1938-5-22 Longshoreman baseball being revived in Tacoma

1938-7-17 Manager of Reno Brewery in Western Nevada League, will pitch.
1940 Dixie Club

 1941-5-31 "Floyd Isekite, leading southpaw in the Western International last season, was whacked out of the box by the Casinos in the sixth inning of his first start in the Western Washington circuit, a loop supposedly several notches below the W.I. Pitching for the opposite colored boys was Jimmy Claxton, a veteran of 49 years. 

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