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Object ID: 4723 (Click here to view the image in a new window.)
Object Date (YYYYMMDD): 195109
Description: 1951 Searles is runner-up in Minnesota 50th state amateur baseball tournament
Org/Loc: Searles
Org/Entity: Mn Amaeur Baseball Organization
Sport: Baseball
Team Nickname: Grizzlies
Gender: N/A
Conf/League: Tomahawk
Original Type: Clippings
Group ID: N/A
Other Information: Material from Ken Gleisner who was team member includes uniform 50th anniversary patch shown with this object, a tournament program with the team picture and report of the first game,a 15-3 win over Hinckley. Material field in the master folder for Tomahawk League history project for 2018. Other material is found in Herb McIvor scrapbook collection of the 1951 tournament for the class Searles played in. As of March 7, 2016, Gleisner believed there were six players still living including drafted pitcher Shorty Lund of Lafayette, Luvern Schugel, Lavern Kuck, Denny Bloomquist, Gleisner and Myron Forstner. We believe Blomquist was deceased also.