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The following article is derived from “The Attica Ledger and Tribune” dated Friday, April 28, 1922. It speaks of the Attica Baseball team from 1902. This team was known as the Attica ball team and was managed by a Al Sargeant and James Hildebrand. This was an independent team that was financed by the local businesses of Attica. Every man that played for this team drew a salary and were experts at their positions. Back in these days, Attica was a proud possessor of a real major league ball park quite nice in those days. It was enclosed by an eight-foot, closely built board fence, with a grandstand that would seat five to six hundred people. This ballpark was situated on the Slusser place, near where the old Poston Brick Plant used to stand. These games were played on weekdays as well as Sundays. These games drew very large crowds from the surrounding towns and people from the rural areas. One of the most memorable games is when the Attica ball team played the Chicago White Sox and came close to beating them. It was said that the game was so heated and contested that it required eleven innings to finally declared the winner with the score 3 to 2 in favor of the Sox. The Attica ball team played 72 games this year, winning 46 of them. It is to my knowledge the team only lasted a few years and there was a charge to reform the team in the early twenties but with no luck. Shall we try and think back to a time when baseball and apple pie belonged in the same sentence and life was standing behind your community and watching America’s favorite pastime, Baseball.
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only in last names. Anyone recognize any of the names? Parker, 3b Caplinger, cf De Haven, lf Ruddle, 1b Buckley, c Leighty, ss Whitney, 2b Conge, p and rf 25 wins, 6 loses, 6 shut-outs Gillis, p 12 wins, 12 loses, 5 shuts-outs Irwin, p 14 wins, 8 loses, 4 shut-outs |
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If anyone has more information regarding this ball team I would love to add more. Travis Dill |
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