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100 Years of Baseball in Ketchikan!
Tideflats ball field plat filed May 3, 1903

By June Allen

 

April 26, 2003
Saturday - 12:30 am


Baseball game on tidal flats, circa 1905
Photographer: Harriet Hunt
Donor: Forest J. Hunt, THS 62.4.1.29
Photograph courtesy Ketchikan Museums

 

Ketchikan Baseball Team and Grandstands, circa 1909
Ketchikan ball team and grandstands over near mouth of the creek- where games played where Federal Bldgs now stand -& had to stop when tied came in
Jim Sayles- Ed Williams- & Laurence Kubley among those sitting on ground...
(Scratched out Harw Stackpole- Clayton Smith))
1st below John Patching, Jim Sayles -- Bob Robinson- Ed Williams-Jack Mac Bride
Top row - Moran-Ed Richmond 2 unknown-
Jim Smith; Fred Purinton- 3 unknown- Joe Mahony
Donor: Bertha Hunt Wells - Photograph courtesy Ketchikan Museums

 

Ketchikan baseball team photo, circa 1910
Photographer: Harriet Hunt
Donor: Ketchikan Public Library - Photograph courtesy Ketchikan Museums

 

Ketchikan Baseball team from 1912
Photographer: Forest J. Hunt
Puritan- Manager, Mahoney, Moran, Patching, Mc Bride, Hooper, Kubley, Williams, Murphy, Hurd, Whitey
Donor: Lawrence Kubley - Photograph courtesy Ketchikan Museums

 

Lawrence Kubley at Bat [1912]
Photographer: David Nicoll
Donor: Lawrence Kubley - Photograph courtesy Ketchikan Museums

 

Ketchikan Baseball Team in Prince Rupert, B.C. July 1, 1914
Ainsworth, Mahoney, Josiah, Jangen, Kubley, Stackpole - Manager, George Engel, Rice, Erickson, Reyce
Donor: Lawrence Kubley - Photograph courtesy Ketchikan Museums

 

Ketchikan: Ball game with Prince Rupert at low tide [1916]
Click on photo to view a larger photo.
Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress).
Gift: Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951.
Historic Photo Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division - Washington, D.C.

 

Ketchikan's old ball ground under water at high tide [early 1900s]
Click on photo to view a larger photo.
Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress).
Gift: Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951.
Historic Photo Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division - Washington, D.C.

 

Ketchikan Elk Club Baseball team welcoming Prince Rupert baseball team
Donor: Lawrence Kubley - Photograph courtesy Ketchikan Museums

 

Ketchikan Baseball Team, 1920
Ketchikan baseball team with names and history on reverse: One of the last teams to play on the beach, Ketchikan had an imported battery, catcher Joe Wally - Seattle, A. Framback, Portland Oregon, Pitcher
Donor: Lawrence Kubley - Photograph courtesy Ketchikan Museums

 

 

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