The Teamsters’ Triumphant Seventh
A scrappy baseball victory at the Madison Street grounds.
A hotly contested game of ball was played at Madison Street baseball grounds yesterday between the Seattle Teamsters and Port Blakeley teams, resulting in a victory for the former by the score of 15 to 5. The game was exciting throughout; up to the seventh inning the score stood 6 to 5 in favor of the Teamsters, but here the plucky Teamsters, by timely hits and brilliant base running, managed to pile on six additional scores, and three more in the eighth inning, retiring the Blakeleys in the next innings in one-two-three order. The game was characterized by the magnificent play put up by the Teamsters—excellent support and quick fielding. The base-running of Rogers and the sliding of Belond, of the Teamsters, was truly something worth seeing.
“The base-running of Rogers and the sliding of Belond, of the Teamsters, was truly something worth seeing.”
Long before professional stadium culture, Seattle’s local clubs and workplace nines—like the Teamsters—were the backbone of civic social life. Today, those grounds at Madison Street are buried deep under the urban density of First Hill, a long way from the days when a local team could draw a crowd to a vacant lot.
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