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Mel Ingram and the Aberdeen Black Cats win the Timber League Pennant, Electric Park, Aberdeen, Washington, September 1925
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| Clip Title | Mel Ingram and the Aberdeen Black Cats win the Timber League Pennant, Electric Park, Aberdeen, Washington, September 1925 |
| Clip Summary | Title: Mel Ingram (tinted yellow). A young man in an Aberdeen Black Cats uniform stands by the dugout filled with baseball players, smiling and laughing. "It-Won't-Be-" is written above the dugout. A group of small boys and young men stand near Mel Ingram. People in the stands look on. Title: Black Cats Winning Timber League Pennant. A man and boy walk past the bleachers and urge the crowd to stand up and cheer. Young boys sit on the ground by the bleacher fence. They look at the camera. The stands are filled with spectators. The camera pans across Electric Park to the baseball diamond. Title: Resting between Games. |
| Duration | 45 secs. |
| Digital Format | Video |
| Original Source Title | MV 177, Newsfilm of Grays Harbor County, ca. 1925-1933. 211581-1-1 |
| Original Source Summary | Original reel contains newsreel footage of events in Aberdeen, Washington, ca. 1925, including baseball, Mel Ingram posing, Black Cats winning Timber League Pennant. |
| Participants/Performers | Ingram, Mel |
| Notes | Electric Park was home of the Aberdeen Black Cats of the Northwestern League. The opening game was between Aberdeen and the Tacoma Tigers in 1908. The stadium seated about 3, 500 and was located at Myrtle and Oak Streets, on the border of Aberdeen and Hoquiam. Overflow crowds for the games would sit in a roped off area in the outfield and some fans took in the game from Kidder's Bluff overlooking left field.
According to an Ebbets Field Flannel blogpost dated June 22, 2009, "Aberdeen Black Cats 1918 Home" the Aberdeen Black Cats took their logo, an arched cat known as "Hoo-Hoo" from a good luck charm posted at logging camps throughout the Pacific Northwest. The symbol was also used by International Workers of the World labor movement and was known as the "Ag Cat" (for agitation). Aberdeen baseball began as a professional team and played as the Pippins and later the Black Cats through 1918. Semi-professional timber leagues continued through the early 1940s. The Aberdeen Black Cats won the Timber League Pennant in a doubleheader against the Tacoma Kays on Septermber 13, 1925. Mel Ingram played outfield and hit above.300. Mel Ingram was born on July 4, 1904 in Asheville, North Carolina. He grew up in Aberdeen, Washington, and attended Gonzaga University in Spokane and died October 28, 1979 in Medford, Oregon. His years at Gonzaga (1925-28) spanned one of the school's best athletic eras. At the start, Bing Crosby was among his baseball teammates. He won 15 of a possible 16 letters while competing in football (running back), basketball (guard), baseball (outfielder) and track (sprinter). During his college years, he appeared regularly in Timber League baseball games, and played in three games as a pinch runner for the 1929 Pittsburgh Pirates, scoring one run. Later, after joining the Wallace High Schoo lfaculty, he was an important player-coach for the Wallace Miners and other teams of the Idaho-Washington League. He took two years out (1934-35) to play for the House of David. He spent 15 years coaching at Wallace, where his football, basketball and track teams all won league championships. Ingram then moved to Roseburg, Oregon, spending three years there, before going to Grants Pass, where his football teams won four state championships. In 1969, he was named National High School Coaches Association Coach of the Year and is a member of both the Inland Northwest and Gonzaga University halls of fame. (Information provided by the Society for American Baseball Research, SABR.org). |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | XYZ
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| Location Depicted | United States – Washington (State) – Aberdeen |
| Date Created | 1925 |
| Language | English |
| Digital Collection | Special Collections Moving Image Collection |
| Order Number | MV0306 |
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| Repository | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Newsfilm of Grays Harbor County, ca. 1925-1933, PhColl 925, VC178.31 |
| Repository Collection Guide | To view the finding aid for this collection, see: http://digital.lib.washington.edu/findingaids/permalink/NewsFilmGraysHarborCountyPHColl925/ |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Digital streaming QuickTime video file made from DVD viewing copy, by Special Collections at Special Collections, Allen Library, on December 13, 2011, using iMovie, version 9.0.2 |
| Rights | Restrictions may exist on reproduction, quotation, or publication. Contact the repository for details. |
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