Ageless Satchel Paige Visits Missoula – 4th Time – 1954 Globetrotters Battle Whiskers Tonight; Paige, Bobo to Show Baseball’s show of the season tonight at Campbell Park, featuring ageless Satchel Paige, greatest Negro pitcher of all time, and the Harlem Globetrotters’ strong ball club, opposing a powerful House of David Read More
Emil Nelson’s Great Big Eastern Brook Trout – Seeing Is Believing Of Fish’s Size Nelson Has Best Proof To Offer For several days anglers in Missoula have been hearing much concerning a GREAT BIG FISH caught by Emil Nelson of Bonner. The first report sounded so absurd that fishermen here Read More
Frank T. “Hatbox” Jones – Missoula Baseball Personality Frank T. Jones Is Dead at 84 Frank T. (Hat Box) Jones, 84, Missoula resident since 1910, public servant and baseball enthusiast, died Friday night at a Missoula hospital where he was taken Jan. 26 following a slight stroke. The body is Read More
Hank Mohland – Low Profile Track Star from a very large Missoula family Legendary track coach Guy Stegner got his final and twelfth win in the 45th Montana interscholastic track meet on May 20, 1951. Missoula won by one point over Helena, making it Missoula’s seventeenth win overall. Butte coach Read More
Missoula American Legion Baseball – 1944 – From Sports Jabs by Ray T. Rocene Commissioner J. Gus Nash will have two boys’ leagues, one playing in the mornings, another in the afternoons. Three sponsors have agreed to put teams into each circuit after organization is completed. The schedule will be Read More
Babe Ruth In Missoula – 1924 Swat King Will Be in Missoula Today. Babe Ruth, the homerun king, Robert Meusel and Christie Walsh, members of the New York Yankees ball team, are due to be in Missoula today. According to advices received at the Northern Pacific headquarters yesterday the trio Read More
Missoula Students Helped in Construction of Victory Field By George Mulvihill. The formal dedication of Missoula high school’s new athletic field was conducted with an address by John L. Campbell, prominent Missoula attorney and sports fan, in an assembly October 5, 1934. The following day the field was christened “Victory Read More
Tony DiRe – Phenomenal Grade School Coach by Ray Rocene Missoulian sports reporter Ray Rocene often wrote about almost anything sports related. His sports interests covered a wide spectrum, from professional tennis to major league baseball to fishing on the Blackfoot with Norman ‘Paul Bunyan’ Means, the originator of the Read More
Ray Rocene on Shelby’s Fight – ‘Killer’ Jack Dempsey, ‘Gentleman’ Tommy Gibbons and ‘Wild Bill’ Kelly Shelby, Montana, was the scene of the only heavyweight fight ever waged in the northwest July 4, 1923, when Jack Dempsey whipped Tommy Gibbons in 15 torrid rounds. It is probable that this bout Read More
The following photo appeared in Section E, page 32 of the Missoulian Centennial issue. Below is the caption for that photo. This American Legion Junior baseball squad of 1942 won the state and regional championships for Missoula, then went to the sectional tournament where Los Angeles won that title 6-5 Read More