Seattle Rainiers Baseball Team photograph collection, approximately 1930-1959

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• Administration

  • Description: Jack Lelivelt and batboys standing next to baseball-shaped floral display at Opening Day
    Dates: April 18, 1939
    Container: Folder 1, Item 1
    Location: Administration
  • Description: Earl Sheely, Roscoe “Torchy” Torrance, Rogers "Rajah" Hornsby, and Bill Sweeney at Minor League Baseball Winter Meeting, Columbus, Ohio

    Wilmer S. Goff, Columbus, Ohio (photographer)

    News article attached to verso: HUDDLING WITH RAJAH: In Columbus, Ohio – The three men who will guide the Seattle Rainiers next season got together for a talk with Rogers Hornsby, 1951 Rainier manager, during the minor-league baseball meeting last week. From the left were Earl Sheely, business manager; Roscoe (Torchy) Torrance, vice president; Hornsby and Bill Sweeney, who will pilot the Rainiers in 1952.

    Dates: December 9, 1951
    Container: Folder 1, Item 2
    Location: Administration
  • Description: Rainiers manager Bill Sweeney

    Written on verso: Mgr Bill Sweeney displays real smile after a winning ball game.

    Dates: between 1952-1953
    Container: Folder 1, Item 3
    Location: Administration
  • Description: Bill Sweeney, Seattle mayor Allan Pomeroy, and Emil Sick, probably Angels Stadium, Palm Springs, California

    Palm Springs News Bureau, Palm Springs, California
    Dates: probably March 1954
    Container: Folder 1, Item 4
    Location: Administration

• Players

  • Group photographs

    • Description: 1939 Seattle Rainiers baseball team

      Webster & Stevens, Seattle, Washington (photographer)

      Figure on far right holding glove has been added into original photograph.

      Dates: 1939
      Container: Folder 1, Item 5
      Location: Players / Group photographs
    • Description: 1940 Seattle Rainiers baseball team

      Webster & Stevens, Seattle, Washington (photographer)

      Caption on photo: 1940 Pacific Coast League Champions

      Written on verso: Back row: Dr. L. W. Richards, Archie, Gyselman, Lawrence, Radunich, Kelleher, Tate, Kearse, Webber, Walker, Campbell, Gregory; Middle row: Barrett, Wilkie, White, Jack Lelivelt – mgr., Coscarart, Niemiec, Turpin, Scribner, Harris; Front row: Stagg, Vannin, Schuster, Eddie Taylor – coach.

      Dates: 1940
      Container: Folder 1, Item 6
      Location: Players / Group photographs
    • Description: 1942 Seattle Rainiers baseball team

      Written on verso: 1942 Rainiers. Dr. Lew Richards, trainer; Bill Matheson; Hal Turpin; Jo Jo White; Earl Torgesen; Bill Lawrence; Ed Kearse; Al Libke; Larry Guay; Mike Budnick; Bob Collins; Ed Carnett. Dick Gyselman; Al Niemic; Al Ketchmar; Carl Fischer; Dewey Soriano; Sylvester Johnson; Bill Skiff (mgr.); Eddie Taylor (coach); Ned Stickte; Lynn King; Dick Barrett; Bill Beard; Spencer Harris; Dick Richards (mascot)

      Dates: 1942
      Container: Folder 1, Item 7a
      Location: Players / Group photographs
    • Description: 1942 Seattle Rainiers baseball team

      Caption on photograph: Pacific Coast League Champions-1939, 1940, 1941. Back row: Dr. Lew Richards, trainer; Bill Matheson; Hal Turpin; Joyner White; Earl Torgeson; Bill Lawrence; Ed Kearse; Al Libke; Larry Guay; Mike Budnick; Bob Collins; Ed Carnett. Front row: Dick Gyselman; Al Niemice; Al Kretchmar; Carl Fischer; Dewey Soriano; Sylvester Johnson; Bill Skiff, manager; Eddie Taylor, coach; Ned Stickle; Lynn King; Dick Barrett; Bill Beard; Spencer Harris; Dick Richards, mascot

      Dates: 1942
      Container: Box:oversize XH8, Item 7b
      Location: Players / Group photographs
    • Description: 1944 Seattle Rainiers baseball team

      Webster & Stevens, Seattle, Washington (photographer)
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Folder 1, Item 8
      Location: Players / Group photographs
    • Description: 1945 Seattle Rainiers baseball team
      Dates: 1945
      Container: Folder 1, Item 9
      Location: Players / Group photographs
    • Description: Seattle Rainiers baseball team

      Gerald Beaudin, Seattle, Washington (photographer)
      Dates: probably 1949
      Container: Box folder:oversize OS7, Item 10
      Location: Players / Group photographs
    • Description: 1950 Seattle Rainiers baseball team

      People in photograph: Front row: Roy Kicker, Dick Leon; second row: Dr. Lew Richards, Albert Gerheauser, K Chorlton, Jack Warren, Roger "Doc" Cramer, Paul Richards, Oran Davis, Tod Davis, Marvin Rackley, Jim Davis; third row: Dennis Galehouse, Alfred Lyons, Howard Judnich, George Vico, Charles Schanz, James Wilson, Hector "Hal" Brown, William Ramsey, Harold "Jack" Albright, Guy Fletcher; back row: Jacob "Vern" Kindsfather, William Schuster, Frank Colman, Hollis "Bud" Sheely, Ernest Bickhaus, William Salkeld, Anthony York, Linus "Lonny" Frey, Nicholas "Mickey" Witek

      Dates: 1950
      Container: Folder 1, Item 11
      Location: Players / Group photographs
    • Description: 1951 Seattle Rainiers baseball team

      Art Forde and Fred Carter, Seattle, Washington (photographer)

      People in photograph: front row: Dick Knapp, Gordon Goldsberry, Paul Calvert, Paul Richards, Arthur Del Duca, Alexander Garbowski, Mike Knowles; middle row: Alfred Lyons, Rocco Krsnich, Stephen Nagy, Bennie Huffman, Rogers "Rajah" Hornsby, Manuel "Jim" Rivera, James Davis, Wesley Hamner, Joseph Erautt; back row: Walter Judnich, Jose Montalvo, Harold "Jack" Albright, Charles Schanz, George Vico, Robert Hall, Earl Johnson, Hector "Hal" Brown, Claude Christie, Marvin Grissom

      Dates: 1951
      Container: Box folder:oversize OS7, Item 12
      Location: Players / Group photographs
  • Description: Pitcher Tracy “Kewpie” “Dick” Barrett
    Dates: between 1938-1949
    Container: Folder 1, Item 13
    Location: Players
  • Description: Catcher Bill Beard
    Dates: 1942 or 1946
    Container: Folder 1, Item 14
    Location: Players
  • Description: Pitcher Floyd “Bill” Bevens
    Dates: 1942 or 1949
    Container: Folder 1, Item 15
    Location: Players
  • Description: Pitcher Carl Fischer
    Dates: between 1942-1946
    Container: Folder 1, Item 16
    Location: Players
  • Description: Pitcher Paul Gregory
    Dates: 1939
    Container: Folder 1, Item 17
    Location: Players
  • Description: Infielder Richard “Dick” "The Needle" Gyselman
    Dates: between 1938-1947
    Container: Folder 1, Item 18
    Location: Players
  • Description: Catcher Morris “Bud” Haneken
    Dates: 1939
    Container: Folder 1, Item 19
    Location: Players
  • Description: Anthony “Spencer” Harris
    Dates: between 1940-1942
    Container: Folder 1, Item 20-21
    Location: Players
  • Description: Outfielder Arthur “Mike” Hunt
    Dates: between 1938-1939
    Container: Folder 1, Item 22
    Location: Players
  • Description: Al Niemiec
    Dates: between 1940-1946
    Container: Folder 1, Item 23
    Location: Players
  • Description: Roscoe "Torchy" Torrance and Rogers "Rajah" Hornsby
    Dates: circa 1950s
    Container: Folder 1, Item 24
    Location: Players
  • Description: Harold “Hal” Turpin
    Dates: circa 1938
    Container: Folder 1, Item 25
    Location: Players
  • Description: John Zar preparing to pitch
    Dates: 1942
    Container: Folder 1, Item 26
    Location: Players

• Games

  • Description: Seattle Rainiers baseball game, Sick's Stadium, Seattle
    Dates: circa 1940
    Container: Folder 1, Item 27-28
    Location: Games