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1910 Warren Baseball Club. Bottom row: Herman "Manny" Heuberger; William "Biddy" Smith; Curt Chappelle; Jim Parks; and Jack Simister. Top row: Joe St. Peter; Howie Martin; Joe Wylie; Fred LaFlamme; William "Beany" Ryan; Jim Lonergan; and unidentified. Many of the same players competed for more than one team in town during the summer of 1910. (Later in life Manny Heuberger, Jim Lonergan, Howie Martin, and Biddy Smith were elected to public office.) (Chappelle, Heuberger, LaFlamme, Martin, Ryan, Simister, Smith, and the team itself are members of the Athletic Hall of Fame.)
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1910 Boston's Wright & Ditson published a winter sports catalog that included uniforms and equipment for such sports as cricket, ice hockey, rugby football, tennis, and track. The company provided the uniforms of Major League Baseball's Boston Red Sox and Boston Nationals and employed Francis Ouimet, future U.S. Open Golf Champion.
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1910 Included in the Wright & Ditson sports catalog were ice hockey cages, gloves, leg and shin guards, pucks, and sticks. Hall of Famers Curt Chappelle, Howie Martin, Beany Ryan, and Jack Simister played on an ice hockey (ice polo) team that skated on the "Kicke" and throughout Southeastern New England.
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1911 Besides playing for a number of Warren baseball clubs, Hall of Famer Jack Simister starred for the J & P Coats team in the Inter-City League (the predecessor of the Providence Amateur League). In 1911, approximately when this picture was taken, the Providence Journal named Jack the league's Most Valuable Player.
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1911 (Click page once or twice to read more easily.) The Athletic Hall of Fame Museum in the Town Council chambers contains the Warren Baseball Club's ledger for the 1911, 1912 and 1913 seasons. Maintained by Treasurer Howard DeWolf, the ledger notes that the 1911 team had total receipts of $692.24 and total expenditures of $525.71. The profit of $166.53 was primarily distributed to the players, with the nine full-time players each receiving $15.84. (The 1911 team finished with a record of 18 wins and 6 losses.)
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1912 Warren's Manufacturers Baseball League Champions. Top row: Joe Wiley; Joe Rockett; Curt Chappelle; Bill "Beany" Ryan; Jack Simister; Howie Martin; and Jim Parks. Middle row: Fred LaFlamme; Walt "Chit" Beauregard; and Donat Fortier. Bottom row: Eddie Conrick; Bill Beauregard; Red Downs; Joe St.Peter; and Herman "Manny" Heuberger. The team's championship trophy is displayed in the Athletic Hall of Fame Museum in the Town Council chambers. (Chit Beauregard, Chappelle, Heuberger, LaFlamme, Martin, Ryan, Simister, the not-pictured Biddy Smith, and the team itself are members of the Athletic Hall of Fame.) (At some point in their lives Donat Fortier, "Manny" Heuberger, Howie Martin, and Joe Rockett were elected town officials.)
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1912 (Click schedule once or twice to read more easily.) The Warren Shoe nine captured the 1912 Manufacturers Baseball League title. Included in the Athletic Hall of Fame Museum in the Town Council chambers are the 1912 championship trophy and the season schedule, two pages of which are shown here. Away games were played at Providence's Davis Park, Roger Williams Park, Tockwotten Park, and Valley Street Grounds and the Dexter Street Grounds in Pawtucket.
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1912 Warren's Manufacturers Baseball League Champions. Top row: Howie Martin; Fred LaFlamme; unidentified; Jack Simister; Jim Parks; and unidentified. Bottom row: Two unidentifieds; Joe St. Peter; William "Biddy" Smith; and William "Beany" Ryan. (LaFlamme, Martin, Ryan, Simister, Smith, and the team itself are members of the Athletic Hall of Fame.) (Later in life Martin was the President of the Warren Town Council, while Smith was both a Councilman and a State Senator.)
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1920s Circle Jacques Cartier Baseball. Bottom row: Unidentified; Joe Gladue; Albert Fortier; and George Fortier. Middle row: Unidentified; Gene Sevigny; Hall of Famer Donat Arel; and Bill Emmett. Top row: Manager Leger Desilets; Donat Fortier (who served Warren as State Representative and Town Councilman); Donat Asselin; and Albert "Bounce" Blouin.
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