La Crosse Professional Baseball Association Financial Records, 1908-1912
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Summary Information
Title: La Crosse Professional Baseball Association Financial Records
Inclusive Dates: 1908-1912

Creator:
  • La Crosse Professional Baseball Association Records (La Crosse, Wis.)
Call Number: La Crosse Mss AX

Quantity: 0.4 cubic feet (1 archives box including 3 volumes)

Repository:
Housed at the Special Collections & Area Research Center, Murphy Library, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:
UW-La Crosse Murphy Library / La Crosse Area Research Ctr. (Map)
COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:
Records of the La Crosse Professional Baseball Association; including a journal of accounts, a cash book, and a ledger recording bills payable, receipts, players' salaries, expenses incurred in traveling to games, and other expenditures.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-lx00ax
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Biography/History

Early baseball associations in La Crosse, Wisconsin, included the Northwestern Baseball League (founded 1886), which became the Western Association in 1888, and the City League (1893). In 1900 the first organization to hire players to play on Saturdays and Sundays was begun. La Crosse teams were included in the Wisconsin State League (1905) and in the short-lived Wisconsin-Minnesota league of 1909 and 1910.

Scope and Content Note

The collection includes a journal of accounts, listing payments to players and gate receipts, 1908-1910; a cash book, 1908- 1912; and a ledger, 1909-1912, recording bills payable, receipts and expenditures, players' salaries, and expenses incurred while traveling to games. The ledger also contains a note of salary paid to player Cy Young in 1910, perhaps referring to the famous major league pitcher who played for Cleveland from 1909 to 1911.

Administrative/Restriction Information
Acquisition Information

Presented by Everette B. Runge, Register of Deeds, La Crosse County, Wisconsin, 1965. Accession Number: M65-111


Processing Information

Processed by Menzi Behrnd-Klodt, January 2, 1979.


Contents List
La Crosse Mss AX
Box   1
Folder   1
Journal, 1908-1910
Box   1
Folder   2
Cash book, 1908-1912
Box   1
Folder   3
Ledger, 1909-1912