Middle Texas League

The Middle Texas League was a six-team Class D level baseball minor league that played in the 1914 and 1915 seasons. The Middle Texas League featured franchises based in Texas. The Middle Texas League permanently folded during the 1915 season. Baseball Hall of Fame member Kid Nichols managed the 1914 Temple Tigers and Hall of Famer Ross Youngs played for the 1915 Bartlett Bearcats.

Middle Texas League
SportMinor league baseball, Class D
Founded1914
CeasedJune 19, 1915
No. of teams8
Country United States
Most titles2 Belton Braves

History

The Middle Texas League began to play in the 1914 season as a new Class D minor league. The president of the league was W.F. Blum, Jr. The Middle Texas League began play as a six–team league, hosting franchises from Bartlett, Texas (Bartlett Bearcats), Belton, Texas (Belton Braves), Brenham, Texas (Brenham Brewers), Georgetown, Texas (Georgetown Collegians), Lampasas, Texas (Lampasas Resorters) and Temple, Texas (Temple Tigers).[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]

The Middle Texas League began play on May 8, 1914. The league played a spit season. In 1914, the Temple Tigers won the first half standings and the Belton Braves won the second half. The final overall standings featured the Bartlett Bearcats (22–59), Belton Braves (37–47), Brenham Brewers (50–34), Georgetown Collegians (50–30), Lampasas Resorters (35–51) and Temple Tigers (54–27). In the Championship playoff, the Belton Braves defeated the Temple Tigers 5 games to 1.[10][11][12][13]

Baseball Hall of Fame member Kid Nichols managed the 1914 Temple Tigers.[13][7]

In its second season, the Middle Texas League began to play on April 15, 1915, with Hulen P. Robertson becoming the league president. The league permanently folded during the season, on June 19, 1915. During the season, the Austin Reps/Representatives (2–5) moved to become the Taylor Producers on May 1, 1915, when floods forced the team to relocate from Austin. Taylor (15–23) then moved to Brenham on June 8, 1915, becoming the second team in Brenham, after the Brenham Brewers folded the day before. The final league standings featured the Austin Representatives/Taylor Producers/Brenham Kaisers (21–36), Bartlett Bearcats (29–26), Belton Braves (40–19), Brenham Brewers (12–31), Schulenburg Giants (23–18) and Temple Governors (32–27). Both the Brenham Brewers and Schulenberg Giants disbanded on June 7, 1915. The Belton Braves won both half seasons of the league.[14][15][16][13][17]

Baseball Hall of Fame member Ross Youngs played for Bartlett in 1915, hitting .264 in 59 games at age 18.[18][19]

Middle Texas League teams
Team name(s) City represented Ballpark Year(s) active
Austin Reps/Austin Representatives Austin, Texas Riverside Park[14] 1915
Bartlett Bearcats Bartlett, Texas Bartlett Base Ball Park[20] 1914 to 1915
Belton Braves Belton, Texas Belton Base Ball Park[21] 1914 to 1915
Brenahm Brewers (1914) /Brenham Kaisers (1915, (2))/ Brenham Huskies (1915, (1)) Brenham, Texas Unknown 1914 to 1915
Georgetown Collegians Georgetown, Texas Unknown 1914
Lampasas Resorters Lampasas, Texas Unknown 1914
Schulenburg Giants Schulenburg, Texas Unknown 1914 to 1915
Taylor Producers Taylor, Texas Robinson Park[22] 1915
Temple Tigers/ Temple Governors (1915) Temple, Texas Unknown 1914 to 1915

Middle Texas League overall standings

1914 standings
Team StandingsWLPCTGBManagers
Temple Tigers5427.667-Kid Nichols
Georgetown Collegians5030.6253.5Jimmy Callahan
Brenham Brewers5034.5955.5Ike Pendleton
Belton Braves3747.44018.5Leslie Mitchell / L.B. Hubbard/ Bob Hart / Jack Forrester / Cal Calahan
Lampasas Resorters3551.40721.5Jesse Estill / Luke Roberts
Bartlett Bearcats2259.26732.0Robert Roundtree / Brooks Gordon

[11][13]

1915 standings
Team StandingsWLPCTGBManagers
Belton Braves4019.678-Charles Lawson[23]
Temple Governors3227.5428.0Luther Burleson / Frank Rogers[24]
Bartlett Bearcats2926.5279.0Ike Pendleton[25]
Austin Reps/Taylor Producers/Brenham Kaisers2136.36818.0Jack Snipes / Billy Disch[26]
Schulenburg Giants2318.561-J.M. Robbins[27]
Brenham Brewers1221.279-Arthur Wicks / John Tuller[28]

[29][13]

Baseball Hall of Fame alumni

References
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  17. http://www.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20100306&content_id=8704612&fext=.jsp&vkey=news_t102&sid=t102
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  19. https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/ross-youngs/
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  22. "Robinson Park in Taylor, TX history and teams on StatsCrew.com". www.statscrew.com.
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  27. "1915 Schulenburg Giants Statistics on StatsCrew.com". www.statscrew.com.
  28. "1915 Brenham Brewers Statistics on StatsCrew.com". www.statscrew.com.
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