
Authentic BASEBALL HISTORY HIGH-QUALITY BOOKS * CARDS EBAY* BUY/SELL
Authentic BASEBALL HISTORY HIGH-QUALITY BOOKS * CARDS EBAY* BUY/SELL

In the "Roaring Twenties" - Baseball fans traveled across the USA to Colorado's capital
To watch the annual DENVER POST TOURNAMENT
TEN TEAMS COMPETING IN TEN DAYS OF BASEBALL
aka - "THE WESTERN WORLD SERIES"
"The Grover Cleveland Alexander's House of David" team
Won the 1934 Denver Post Tournament Championship - Satchel Paige winning pitcher.
The Negro League All-Stars returned to Denver in 1936 with fastball pitcher Satchel Paige
attracting over 34,000 fans to the event and was the most successful of all
the 33 years that the tournament was staged..
SATCHEL PAIGE started his professional baseball career on May 1, 1926 pitching for the Chattanooga Black Lookouts. His career spanned decades and was best know as to attracting record crowds when he pitched. Satchel Paige was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1971.
Team "FRIEND" - Sidney, Nebraska -Western League
Two years in a row First Place Winner -Team won a large cash prize
All team "FRIEND" members received gold medals.
1921 & 1922 DENVER POST TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONS.
Team "CHEYENNE INDIANS" - Cheyenne, Wyoming
1922 Second Place - Each player received $88.00 and M&O Cigars
The CHEYENNE INDIANS played in a total of seven annual events.
THE CHEYENNE INDIANS
1923 DENVER POST TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONS.
THE COPPER LEAGUE * 100 YEARS AGO
"THE LAST STAND OF OUTLAW BASEBALL"
A NEW BASEBALL TRILOGY
HAL CHASE * BUCK WEAVER * CHICK GANDIL
Along with many famous ball players including:
Jimmy O'Connell - George RUBE Foster - Shoe-less Joe Jackson
Tom Seaton - Lefty Williams - Bert Whaling
The men came to the Southwest to Play Fast Baseball in the Roaring Twenties.
A Three-Book Baseball Series - 1,020 pages of Authentic Baseball History
THE RECORD BOOK OF THE COPPER LEAGUE
1925 - 1927 * BALL PLAYER PROFILES INDEX
DETAILS OF (22 - 9 INNING GAMES) - 100 YEARS AGO
THE HISTORY IS DOCUMENTED FROM
JOHN LAWRENCE SMIRCH PERSONAL EXPERIENCE AS
A COPPER LEAGUE BALL PLAYER.
CREATING A RICH OPPORTUNITY FOR BASEBALL FANS TO DISCOVER NEW DIMENSIONS OF THE BLACK SOX AND MANY HIGH-CALIBER
BALL PLAYERS WHO CAME TO THE SOUTHWEST.
"A COMPELLING AND EXTRAORDINARY TRUE STORY"
JOHN WILLIAM SMIRCH is the Author of the Trilogy
"THE LAST STAND OF OUTLAW BASEBALL"
Jose "Cowboy" Ruiz Elias was inducted into The Sonora Sports Hall of Fame - Mexico in 1980. Cowboy Ruiz and Hal Chase started playing together for
The NOGALES INTERNATIONAL'S of the SOUTHERN ARIZONA LEAGUE in 1923.
The locals crowded the ballparks to watch a higher level of baseball.
In 1926 Douglas Blues' manager, Buck Weaver hired Cowboy Ruiz to pitch in
The newly formed 1926 Copper League and
A fast moving team from Mexico called the JUAREZ INDIANS joined the league.
"CARLOADS OF BASEBALL BOOSTERS FOLLOWED THE TEAMS ON ROAD TRIPS
TO THE NEXT BIG GAME"
"The Last Stand of Outlaw Baseball" documents three years of the 1925 Frontier League & 1926/1927 Copper League Seasons as it happened.
Is one of the most sought after informational books for baseball historians and baseball aficionados, as it covers the inside journey of the former Major League Ball Players,
Hal Chase, Buck Weaver, Chick Gandil.
With long-time friend "Shoe-less" Joe Jackson traveling to the Southwest to play a game with the Ex-Big-League ball players. Historical text coupled with player / team indexes, displaying The 1920's image collection.
Details of 22 ball games inning by inning action and the main events that happened within the three years of
Historic Outlaw Baseball played in this Southwest league 100 years ago.
Hal Chase moved to the Southwest to Play Fast Outlaw Baseball and soon the word got out there was a opening for several ex-major leaguers.
In a league of their own, The 1925 Frontier League - Series #1 Showcases ten ball games inning by inning action with
Chase as manager of the Douglas, Arizona city baseball club, The Douglas Blues'.
Chase and team including Buck Weaver, Chick Gandil and a game with Shoe-less Joe Jackson in Miami, Arizona Exhibition game.
The Douglas Blues' battle from in the cellar to a first place tie with the Juarez Indians from Juarez, Mexico.
Rare photographs from the 1925 collection.
Series # 1 - Is a High-Quality Historical Baseball Book. Size - 8.5"x11" - (304 pages) Interior of book is printed in grey scale on heavy stock.
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Hal Chase & The Frontier League 1925
ISBN: 978-1-7347249-0-5
JOHN WILLIAM SMIRCH
A historical record of Buck Weaver and his experiences during the 1926 Copper League season, highlighting 12 full ball games inning by inning baseball action, Along with the events that took place in Cananea, and Nogales, Mexico, Bisbee and Douglas, Arizona, Hurley, Fort Bayard and Santa Rita, New Mexico, El Paso, Texas and Juarez, Mexico. The ball games played in the Southwest as it happened.
Rare Photographs from the 1926 collection.
Series #2 - High-Quality 8.5"x 11" - Paperback
Fully Illustrated - Historical Baseball Book
(365 pages) Printed in grey scale on heavy stock.
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Buck Weaver & The Copper League 1926
ISBN: 978-1-7347249-1-2
JOHN WILLIAM SMIRCH
A historical record of Chick Gandil and his playing skills during the 1927 Copper League. It was Gandil’s determination and experience that helped win the 1927 Copper League Championship. -Additional Historical data about Baseball Commissioner, Kenesaw Mountain Landis, who was instrumental of the Bisbee Bees joining the newly formed 1928 Arizona State league.
Also, Details Following the Outlaws into organized baseball.
Rare Photographs from the 1927 & 1928 collection.
Series # 3 - High-Quality - 8.5"x11" - Paperback
Fully Illustrated - Historical Baseball Book
(350 pages) Printed in grey scale on heavy stock.
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Chick Gandil & The Copper League 1927
ISBN: 978-1-7347249-2-9
JOHN WILLIAM SMIRCH