1906 News & Notes
1906 All-Star Game
Northern League 2, Southern League 1
Charlie "Piano Legs" Hickman, a catcher for Payson, got the game-winning RBI in the 10th inning. Tucson's
Ty Cobb had a rough first All-Star appearance, going 0-for-4 and committing two errors.
Charlie Jaeger of Lake Havasu was the winning pitcher.
No-Hitters
Only one this season.
Tombstone's
Irv Higginbotham gave a great performance on April 25 against Yuma, walking one. Amazingly, he didn't have a single strikeout. Tombstone won 5-1, giving up a run on a couple of errors... The losing pitcher in this game was Yuma's Addie Joss, who as you'll read later, won the 1906 Top Hurler Award for the Southern League...
Injury Notebook
Jerome already has a reputation as bar-brawling, sin-filled city. That reputation was only confirmed when Jerome Copper Miners back-up catcher
Tommy Raub broke his nose in a bar fight. He missed a few games, and owners from other cities just rolled their eyes...
Misc.
• Yuma's 87 wins was the most in franchise history ... The Prisoners are on the move up! Or should we say, breaking out...
• Lake Havasu, which is seeking to move to a new location as a franchise, put seven players on the trading block during the summer. The Blues made four different trades over a couple week period, eventually getting
Jack Taylor, the only AZ League player to pitch a Perfect Game.
• Speaking of Taylor, his career has been far from robust. He;s been traded a few times and has had injury issues. In six seasons, he's posted a 94-95 record with six saves and a 3.51 ERA. But for one afternoon in late September 1901, everything worked to perfection for the right-hander from Ohio...