OTD Brooklyn Semipros 10/3/1937: Bay Parkway Dukes and Bay Ridge Club Split Twin Bill at Erasmus Field

From the desk: BATTLE OF THE BROOKLYN SEMPROS

The Brooklyn Citizen, Monday, October 4, 1937

On Sunday, October 3, 1937, in a battle for Brooklyn semipro supremacy played out not more than two miles from where I presently live, the visiting Bay Ridge Club and host Bay Parkway Dukes split games of a twin bill at Erasmus Field, McDonald Avenue at the Avenue M station along the Culver Line.

GAME ONE - Bay Ridge starter Bill Simmons and Harry Eisenstat of Bay Parkway stage a classic pitcher's duel.  Neither pitcher yields a run through the game's first eight innings.  

Eisenstat allows but six hits and strikeouts ten.  He is relieved in the ninth by Johnny Ubinksi, who promptly surrenders the go-ahead run.  Bay Ridge center fielder Babe Fisher tripled to right field and scored on left fielder Vincent Liddy's base hit.  But Bill Simmons does himself no favors in the home ninth by walking two batters and surrendering the game-tying hit by Max Posnack.

Into extra innings, they go at Erasmus Field.

Bill Simmons and Johnny Ubinski duel through two more scoreless frames.  But in the visiting twelfth, Ubinski unleashed a wild pitch permitting the go-ahead run to score from third base.  Afterwhich, Bay Ridge tacks on another.  Simmons retires Bay Parkway in the bottom half of the twelfth for the win.  He holds the Dukes to one on just four hits with seven strikeouts.  Max Posnack accounts for two of the Duke's four hits.  Ubinksi takes the loss.

The Brooklyn Citizen, Monday, October 4, 1937

GAME TWO - Bay Parkway secures a twin bill split in an abbreviated five-inning game called on account of darkness.  Johnny Ubinski again takes the mound and this time limits Bay Ridge to no runs on just two hits with four strikeouts for the win.  Bay Parkway is able to bunch together all three runs in the third.  Lefty Holmes leads the Dukes with two hits and a run scored.

Bay Ridge and Bay Parkway split the season series at two apiece.  The matter of Brooklyn supremacy goes unresolved.  But we really know who's number one ...

OTD Negro National League vs. Brooklyn Semipros 8/29/1937: Leon Day Wins Two as Newark Eagles Sweep Both Ends of Twin Bill Against Bay Parkways at Erasmus Field

From the desk: NEGRO NATIONAL LEAGUE vs. BROOKLYN SEMIPRO

The Brooklyn Citizen, Monday, August 30, 1937

On Sunday, August 29, 1937, not more than two miles from where I presently live, the Newark Eagles of the Negro National League win games of a tightly contested doubleheader against the Bay Parkway Dukes at Erasmus Field, McDonald Avenue at the Avenue M station along the Culver Line, Brooklyn.

NEGRO NATIONAL LEAGUE

NEWARK EAGLES

GAME ONE - Starting for the Dukes, Phil Mooney is opposed by the familiar right-hander Terris McDuffie who was hurling for Brooklyn two years ago before the Manleys relocated the Eagles to Newark.  The two duel to a one-all tie through nine innings.  Newark scores their run in the second and the Bay Parkways in the fourth.  Afterwhich, the score remains unchanged for the next five innings, and into extra innings, they go at Erasmus Field.

Mooney allows the lone run on just five hits through nine.  After the second, he hurls seven scoreless innings but exits to a no-decision.  He is relieved in the tenth inning by Eddie Bell.  Meanwhile, Terris McDuffie lasts through the twelfth inning, and like Mooney, walks off to a no-decision.  McDuffie, after the fourth twirls eight scoreless innings.  

After enduring another four scoreless frames, the Eagles finally get to Eddie Bell for three runs in the top of the fourteenth inning.  Second baseman Dick Seay doubles, and after a walk issued to shortstop Willie Wells, first baseman Mule Suttles doubles to right field, plating Seay with the game's decisive run.  

Right-hander Leon Day, who entered the game in the thirteenth, tosses two scoreless innings for the win.  Right fielder Ed Stone leads the Eagles with three hits, and third baseman Ray Dandridge

wields two.

The Brooklyn Citizen, Monday, August 30, 1937

GAME TWO - A seven-inning contest is agreed upon.  Newark promptly scores three runs on four hits against Bay Parkway starter Johnny Ubinski in the first inning.  Afterwhich, Ubinski settles in with help from Teddy Wronewic's stellar play in left field, allowing no runs on just three scattered hits over the final six innings.  

However, Leon Day makes Newark's lead stand.  The Dukes manage two runs in the fourth and not much else.  After his relief stint in game one, Leon Day holds Bay Parkway to six hits with three strikeouts over seven innings for the win.  Ed Stone leads the Eagles with two hits, while Mule Suttles, Dick Seay, and center fielder Jimmie Crutchfield crossed home for Newark.  Despite seven strikeouts, Johnny Ubinski takes the hard-luck loss.

OTD 5/29/1938: Bay Parkway Semipros Split Twin Bill With Cuban Stars at Erasmus Field, Brooklyn

From the desk: BROOKLYN SEMIPROS

Brooklyn Daily Eagle

DOUBLE-HEADER

Sunday, May 29, 1935

CUBAN STARS

vs.

BAY PARKWAYS

FROM

ERASMUS FIELD

On Sunday, May 30, 1938, within two miles from where I presently live, the Bay Parkways semipros split a double-header with the Cuban Stars at Erasmus Field, McDonald Avenue at the Avenue M station along the Culver Line.

Brooklyn Daily Eagle

GAME ONE:  After scoring in the first inning, the Cuban Stars cling to a 2-0 lead through the fifth.  Bay Parkway finally breaks through for three runs in the sixth scored by Nolan, Posnack, and McCabe.  But their lead does not last.  With single runs in the eighth and ninth innings, the Cuban Giants come away with a late 4-3 victory.  Bay Parkway starter Sam Nahem goes through the whole repertoire of issuing four walks, fanning seven, hitting a batter, and unleashing a wild pitch in a losing effort.  Cuban Stars starter Heliodoro Diaz surrenders three runs on six hits and five walks with two strikeouts for the win.  Bay Parkway left eight runners stranded on base.  The Cuban Stars catcher is likely to be Julio Rojo.

Brooklyn Daily Eagle

GAME TWO - Bay Parkway rebounds for a 7-1 victory in game two.  Starter Johnny Ubinski limits the Cuban Stars to just one run on six hits and three walks with five strikeouts through nine innings for the win.  He also comes to his own cause with a hit and a run scored.  Pitching for the Cuban Stars, Jimmenez allows seven runs on seven hits, walks three, and strikes out three in a losing effort.   Left fielder Tetelo Vargas drives home catcher Jose Maria Fernandez with the Cuban Stars lone run.