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Profile Year: 1986 First: Elton E. Last: Reinmiller Home: Schuyler Baseball Career of Elton E. Reinmiller as collected from the memories left in his files. 1924-26 Staplehurst, NE Team - Pitched - Highlights: Played Kansas City Monarchs Negro League Won Blue Valley League 1927 - '28, '30, '31, '32, '35 - Seward Team - Won Blue Valley League Two Lincoln Teams - Univ. of NE Varsity and Cleaners Broke arm pitching in 1929 Stapehurst game - 9th inning. 1931 - Blue Hill, Holdrege, Oxford 1st base, Red Cloud left Haines S.S., Home Run 1932 - Niles team - pitched Played Surprise - McCook State League at Rising City picnic - pitched and won Valparaiso tournament - pitched for Ulyssess - Seward 1933 - Peru Teachers College, Peru Town Team, Nebraska City, Pawnee City 1934 - Kearney - Royal Bakery team - managed and pitched 2 games/week As well as May through July 4th for North Platte July 4 to end of season for Hastings - pitched for 2nd base. 1935-1938 - Scribner, NE - Pioneer League - pitched, 1st base, s.s., 3rd base. Foe;d 1935 to National Tournament in Dayton, OH. 1938 untill July then moved to Schuyler and finished the season but ineligible for tournament play. 1938 - 1945 - Schuyler, NE - Mid State Team played and managed 1946 - Schuyler, NE - managed - never played Beat Somky Molton then got fired. Family legend has it that it was because he brought the first black player/pitcher to NE. Town Team League Balance of 1946 - David City where both of them pitched and field 1946-1948 - David City, NE - '48 being the last season that they were at the top of the league Batting average near 500 Lots of money bet on final game where he drove in winning run as bases were loaded with 2 outs in the 9th inning year? - Clarkson, NE - managed team. year? - Fritz Daehling saw me plowing at Staplehurst farm and came to see if I would pitch for Stapehurst the next night as they needed to save their pitcher for a tournament. The game was against Garland Shaefer and played under the lights at Seward. He pitched 7 innings and they were ahead a couple runs. They asked if they could let their pitcher loosen up for the balance of the game and wanted me to play center field. Garland then was able to score in the 8th. In the 9th they had a man on 3rd with 2 outs. Had they scored the game would have been tied. Then a drive to me in the center field, I was able to make a good throw home to Fritz Daehling with a good bounce to the plate. Game over- The last game pitched 1967-1975 - Apache Indian Reservation teams in Cibque and Fort Apache, AZ In Elton Reinmiller's lifetime he played on two 'colored' teams and one Apache Indian team. He remembers it all, but especially the day he broke his arm throwing a ball - and the day he hit a ball out of the park at Dayton, Ohio!