Baseball: What a team!
[This was the] 1912 baseball team. This picture was taken in the school yard at Wilsonville at the baseball diamond. These uniforms, they are all wool and they purchased them from Honeyman Hardware in Portland. The pants, shirt, and cap, and socks all complete and all wool for 85¢ for each complete uniform, but it was difficult to raise 10¢, 12¢ or 85¢ in those days. Back row shows...left to right: Norris Young, Fred Darby, Walter Koellermeier. Center row: George Stangel, Hart Horn, Elmer Blossum Seeley, Peck Murray, John Biggs. Front row: Andy Hasselbrink, Frank and Del Young... no relation to the other Youngs. They would take on any ball teams in the county or the state. They used to go down to the Chataqua Grounds in Gladstone and challange any team that wanted to play and they were never defeated in three years. So they named themselves the Oregon State Champions. Emery Aden This is #36 on the Wilsonville historic map |