Baseball Fever Hits Snohomish
A local baseball game between Snohomish and Port Gamble draws a massive crowd, proving the sport's rising popularity in the region.
Since Snohomish beat the Athletics the baseball fever has caught many who never took an interest in the game, and fully 750 people walked out to Pastime park to see the Maroons' crack battery, Horting and Blanford, pitted against Snohomish's 19-year-old kids, Thornton and Bird. Port Gamble was well represented by about 150 people who came over with the team on the Henry Bailey. The game was one of the finest ever played here, and was the only hard game Snohomish has had yet. Horting pitched a great game and was given good support by the rest of the club, which has been reorganized since here last, but the Snohomish sluggers managed to crack out ten hits just when they were needed. The kid battery got in their work allowing but five scattering hits.
“Since Snohomish beat the Athletics the baseball fever has caught many who never took an interest in the game.”
Sports culture has been a major pillar of community identity in the Pacific Northwest for over a century. The detail of 750 people walking out to a field for a game emphasizes that local amateur baseball was the primary entertainment before the age of mass media.
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