1907 News & Notes
1907 All-Star Game
Northern League 3, Southern League 1
The NL standouts outhit the SL boys 11-3 ... Flagstaff left-fielder
Harry "Deer Foot" Bay had four hits and two RBIs, while Cottonwood 1B
Harry Davis belted a solo home run ... Cottonwood's
"Big Ed" Walsh earned the pitching victory.
The NL lineup was full of studs from that era -- OF
Sam Crawford, 2B
Nap Lajoie, OF
Cy Seymour, SS
Honus Wagner, 1B
Frank Chance... Tucson's
Ty Cobb went 0-for-4 on the Southern League side...
No-Hitters
Three new players joined the prestigious list. Here is the complete list of players to have thrown no-hitters. Only one perfect game still, and that was in 1901:
Code:
5/5/1901, Jack Chesbro (GCA), 7 K, 2 BB
9/28/1901, Jack Taylor (NOG), 2 K, 0 BB (PERFECT GAME!)
6/11/1902, Roscoe Miller (FLA), 6 K, 1 BB
7/26/1902, Bob Rhoads (SED), 6 K, 5 BB
6/5/1904, Noodles Hahn (PAY), 2 K, 1 BB
7/5/1904, Frank Smith (GCA), 3 K, 0 BB
8/15/1905, Mike O'neill (PRE), 3 K, 1 BB
8/18/1905, Walter Clarkson (YUM), 1 K, 2 BB
8/19/1905, Red Ames (SED), 3 K, 2 BB
4/25/1906, Irv Higginbotham (TOM), 0 K, 1 BB
4/24/1907, Cowboy Jones (KAY), 4 K, 0 BB
4/29/1907, Nick Altrock (TOM), 7 K, 3 BB
6/29/1907, Ed Doheny (NOG), 4 K, 3 BB
Injury Notebook
• Jerome pitcher
Tom "Red" Fisher, 26, saw his baseball career come to an end in April. He ripped a biceps muscle. "That's it for me," he said, sobbing after the doctor's reports. This was a big blow to Jerome and to the career of the promising young right-hander, who had posted a 27-14 record the year before.
• Tombstone also lost a great centerfielder late in the season.
Emmet "Snags" Heidrick, 31, tore up his rib cage muscle while making a catch in the playoffs, ending his career. He was a five-time all-star for Tombstone and a career .291 hitter. He appeared in 999 games for the Epitaphs. "What I wouldn't do to play game No. 1000," Heidrick said. "But that appears unlikely from what the docs have told me." RIP ...
Misc.
• Nogales 2B
Jon Hummel, 24 was again listed as the top non-pitching prospect in the AZL. He's No. 8 overall (behind seven pitchers). Hummel has finally reached the bigs, batting .223 with two homers and 17 RBIs for the Apaches...
• Tombstone's
Del Mason is considered the top pitching prospect in the AZL. He's been in AAA for four years just itching to get a shot at the big time. He's only appeared in seven games for the Big Club, posting a 1-1 record and 6+ ERA
• Payson pitcher
Ed Ruelbach, 24, gets this year's Iron Man Pitcher award for throwing 16.2 innings in a game against Jerome on July 10. He only surrendered one run and eight hits (with seven strikeouts). He tossed 184 pitches before finally coming out to a great round of applause ... In a cruel twist of fate, the contest went 18 innings and teammate
Jack Powell, who threw just seven pitches in relief, got the win. Big Ed, as they call him in Payson, started 40 games and finished 38 of them... Nice... Today's pitchers are wimps...
