On Sunday, June 4, 1939, within two miles of where I presently live, the local Bay Parkways split games of a doubleheader with Barton's Nighthawks at Erasmus Field, McDonald Avenue at the Avenue M station along the Culver Line.
GAME ONE - Bay Parkway opens the scoring. However, the Nighthawks grab a 3-1 lead after two innings and hold a 4-2 lead through four. Bay Parkway ties the game at four with two runs in the sixth, including a run-scoring sacrifice fly by Arlington, the backstop. The game remains knotted through the eighth. Then with two runners on base in the home ninth, Bay Parkways first baseman Max Posnack doubles, one bounce over the right field fence driving home the winning run. Spiro and Buster Lavac join together to limit the Nighthawks to seven hits, three going for extra bases, six walks, and four strikeouts. Lavac earns the win.
GAME TWO - Bob Miller toes the slab for Barton's Nighthawks and is opposed by Bay Parkways left-hander Jimmy McCloskey. When Bay Parkway takes a 1-0 lead in the third, the Nighthawks tie it in the fifth. When the Parkways go ahead 2-1 in the eighth, the Barton Nines rally in the ninth, tying the game at two. They play a scoreless tenth inning. However, Jimmy McCloskey is forced to exit due to injury and is relieved by Buster Lavac. After trading runs in the eleventh, the Nighthawks finally put two runs between them and their hosts for a 12-inning 5-3 victory and twin bill split at Erasmus Field. This time, Buster Lavac suffers the loss.
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