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Store currently stands. In 1900, The Anaconda Serpents The Montana State The sport was a phenomenon in Anaconda’s semi-pro club, the the town. Youth played at the Anaconda Serpents played in the Anaconda missed out on an 1892 attempt at a Baseball League state semi-pro baseball league. For the 1900 iteration, Kennedy Common. More serious Montana State Baseball League. A Anaconda put together a hodgepodge of local and semi- Four teams, one summer, an 80-game season. Countless fights, ball was played at the Old Athletic riotous summer followed. professional talent know as the Serpents, Calciners or endless protests. The Montana State Baseball League’s inaugural simply Anacondans. 1900 season was enough to convince owners not to host a 1901 On opening day, managed by Jack Grim, the Serpents season. beat Butte on the road in front of 2,000 fans. A baseball nomad, W.H. Lucas, started the semi-pro league The Led by former MLB pitchers Dad Clarkson and Kid in Helena in a flash of optimism. In the two months after Lucas Carsey, the team finished second in both halves of the announced the new league on March 2, 1900, sufficient backing Immortal season without breaking .500. Far from good enough to materialized for the formation of four clubs – the Helena Senators, Joe Tinker satisfy fans or backers. Manager Jack Grim resigned Aug. the Great Falls Indians, the Butte Smoke Eaters and the Anaconda earned 11, telling the Daily Inter Mountain, “there is a feeling against Serpents. immortality as me in certain quarters...I cannot do myself justice...I am Assurances were made. The players would be upstanding, the a sure-handed not in the best of health.” managers shrewd, the umpires professional. That was the promise short stop for A day later, Grim was umpiring games for the anyway. the Chicago Cubs (1902-1912, 1916): he league. Working a game in Great Falls, he made a call In reality, according to the newspapers of the day, it seemed was lionized in baseball’s second most bad enough that both teams protested and the stands the only league personnel who knew less about the game than the famous verse and enshrined in the Hall emptied. The fans surrounded Grim and refused to let team managers were the umpires. Absurd calls led to protests, of Fame in 1946. him go until he explained himself. fights among players, fans, managers and umpires and forced Tinker got his start in the Montana Clarkson took over the team and didn’t fare much Lucas to hire new umpires from outside the state just one month State League as a 19-year-old infielder, better. The Serpents had to replay at least two games for into the season. Still, many games were umpired by players or playing for Great Falls and then using ineligible players. Carsey knocked out Clarkson’s managers. The players’ questionable talents and personal conduct Helena after switching teams early in teeth after ‘Dad’ cut him from the team in September. were a perpetual source of agony to fans and newspapermen. the season for better pay. Carsey played two more seasons in the MLB. The payoff was corruption, gambling and uneven play. Halfway What did the papers say? That the Serpents’ managers through the season, with Helena leading the standings, the other had little “actual knowledge of [their team’s] playing three clubs agitated to have the season restarted. Two months after abilities,” according to The Anaconda Standard. opening day on May 24, all the teams took to the field with 0-0 records. Mulligan? Fittingly, the championship series between Great Falls and Midway through the 1900 season, Helena ended with forfeits, a small riot and assault charges pressed the Senators led the league with a 25-11 against the umpire for defending himself against rioters. record. Anaconda, Butte and Great Falls were all sub .500. The three What did the papers say? The Anaconda Standard claimed most of basement clubs complained until the the league had “a good deal of dead timber on their hands.” league reset the standings at the end The Kid goes out with a bang of July with the winner of the ‘second half’ of the season to play Helena in a Wilfred “Kid” Carsey was a minor decisive championship series. Major League talent. He pitched eight seasons (1892-1899) for the Philadelphia Phillies and St. Louis Browns, winning The Immortalizer 20 games twice. When Carsey showed up in These are the saddest of possible words: Anaconda in 1900, his arm was in “Tinker to Evers to Chance.” steep decline. His last three seasons Trio of bear cubs, and fleeter than birds, combined, he struck out just 68 Tinker and Evers and Chance. batters. He’d averaged 60 Ks a season Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble,* before the dropoff. Still, he had the Making a Giant hit into a double- MLB pedigree and the Philipsburg Words that are heavy with nothing but trouble: Mail promised he would be one of “Tinker to Evers to Chance.” the league’s best “twirlers,” despite — Franklin P. Adams, “Baseball’s standing 5 feet, 7 inches tall. By newspaper accounts, Carsey pitched Sad Lexicon,” 1910 well for Anaconda, but was released just before the season ended. What did the papers say? “Saturday night was productive of many In 1910, Franklin Adams, a Chicagoan, fights in Anaconda[....] ‘Kid’ Carsey who was that day released from was working as a columnist for the New the Anaconda base ball team, assaulted Manager Arthur Clarkson York Evening Mail. Despite working in the on Main street. Mr. Clarkson, who is a thorough gentleman, was shadow of the New York Giants, Adams unwilling to make a show of himself. He was struck on the jaw but remained a Cubs fan. Stories by James Wisniewski, Leader Sports defended himself. Carsey injured his hand and is now in the hospital Adams dashed off the eight-line poem and under arrest. to celebrate the Chicago Cubs dynasty About midnight there was a general mix-up of the base ball players that won the National League in 1906, on Main street, in which Burke of the Butte team struck O’Brien of ‘08, ‘09 and ‘10, the World Series in 1906 the Anaconda team on the cheek and then escaped. The police were and ‘08. The Cubs were led by short stop The games on the scene and caused hostilities to cease without further disgrace Joe Tinker, second baseman Johnny Evers to the teams and the towns they represent.” — Daily Inter Mountain, and first baseman Frank Chance – the trio Sept. 10, 1900. had a penchant for turning timely double that weren't plays. The poem was a sensation, a cultural The Montana State Baseball League touchstone. Other sportswriters expanded Championship series was settled like and modified it for their papers. much of the season – with forfeits. refused to leave the field, Burke declared neutral ground in Butte (with a new The Cubs’ trio played together from Helena took a 2-1 lead over Great Falls the game a forfeit and Great Falls the umpire due to Burke’s incarceration) 1902-1912 and finished below .500 just once in the best-of-five-games series.