1912/ Waseca ball team will play Austin next Sunday; 1937/ Waseca Faces Fairbault in Playoff Game; Waseca Drops Close Game to Owatonna Club; Waseca Loses to Blue Earth by Large Score; 1962/ Braves Nip LeCenter Sunday 4-3 in 10 Innings; Hold 1-0 Lead in Final Round Playoff; 1987/ Braves rip Faribo; Legion wins, in finals; Braves beat Fairmont 8-5.

1912/ The City and County

    - The Waseca ball team will go to Austin next Sunday to play the Austin team. The lineup will be as follows: Thoreson, catcher; Gallagher and Hartwich, pitchers; Holstrom, 1st; Dietz, 2nd; Costello, 3rd; Graves, short; Krava, right; Foster, center; Wollschlaeger, left. Waseca and Fairbault will be on the local diamond on Sunday, August 19.
    - 100 years ago, August 8, 1912, Waseca Herald

1937/ Waseca Faces Fairbault in Playoff Game

    Arrangements for the first games of the Southern Minnesota League playoff were made at Owatonna last evening when officials of the league met and formulated the rules under which the contest will be handled, scheduling the first games of the set-to to be held at Waseca and Austin Sunday.
    At the fair grounds diamond, Waseca will play Fairbault while at Austin, the Packers will meet Owatonna. The winners of the two games will meet on Sunday, August 22nd on the field of the team which finished with the highest league standing.
    Though the Waseca club has won over Fairbault once the season by a score of 9 to 5, no easy victory is predicted for the home team, since the game will be played under the stress of title competition.
    - 75 years ago, August 11, 1937, Waseca Journal

1937/ Waseca Drops Close Game to Owatonna Club

    Playing before the largest crowd drawn to the fair grounds diamond this season numbering almost 1000 people, the Waseca club of the Southern Minnesota League extended a neighborly hand to Owatonna and lifted them into the security of the first division by their boot-straps. Waseca lost the game by a score of 4 to 1.
    The loss gave to Owatonna a cinch on the fourth place position in the league and a chance at the playoffs. At the same time, it eliminated Waseca's hopes of tying Austin for the league leadership.
    - 75 years ago, August 11, 1937, Waseca Journal

1937/ Waseca Loses to Blue Earth by Large Score

    In a game against the league-leading Blue Earth club, Waseca's Southern Minnesota Association team wound up the season in a tangle of walks and errors that gave Blue Earth the game by a score of 16 to 1 and proved a veritable nightmare for for an honest score-keeper.
    Written into the scorebook for the game are statistics which show that four pitchers for Waseca allowed 14 walks, while the team playing behind them committed five errors. All of this ultimately resulted in the Blue Earth team scoring 16 runs on nine hits.
    - 75 years ago, August 11, 1937, Waseca Journal

1962/ Braves Nip LeCenter Sunday 4-3 in 10 Innings; Hold 1-0 Lead in Final Round Playoff

    Waseca jumped off to a 1-0 [lead] in the opening game of the final round of the Le Sueur County league playoffs Sunday night by shading the LeCenter 4-3 in a 10-inning thriller before the largest crowd of the season at Community Field...
    It was another "team" victory for Warren Dunn's Braves. But standing out amongst all others were Marlin Kreutz, the fast-balling right-hander, Jim Howard, Bob Kaiser and John Spittler.
    Kreutz, who needs no introduction to local fans as well as to many fans around the circuit, chalked up his 16th win of the campaign against a single setback. The Braves over-all are 17-4. His only loss came at the hands of Le Sueur June 28. Since then he has won nine straight. Marlin fanned seven while walking only two.
    Howard sparkled with two doubles in five trips to the plate and also came up with several fine catches in center field. Kaiser also made a couple of nice grabs at first base and it was his two-base blast that deadlocked the score at 3-3 in the sixth.
    Spittler was responsible for the winning run crossing the plate and had one of his best nights in the field at second base.
    - 50 years ago, August 8, 1962, Waseca Journal

1987/ Braves rip Faribo

    The Braves baseball team defeated Fairbault 8-3 and lost to Rochester twice 8-0 and 3-1 Monday and Tuesday.
    The Braves are now 5-3 in the Southern Minny League and 21-14 overall.
    - 25 years ago, August 6, 1987, Waseca County News

1987/ Legion wins, in finals

    The American Legion baseball team advanced to the finals of the First District Tournament with three wins over the weekend.
    Waseca defeated defending champion Rochester 10-3, Austin 6-1 and Dodge Center 5-1 before losing a 12-2 decision to Austin in the double elimination tournament.
    Post 228 opened the tournament with a 10-3 win over Rochester, the defending champion and last year's state runner-up.
    Chris Case hurled a three-hitter, although he walked eight while striking out two, to up his record to 8-0...
    Waseca stopped Austin 6-1 in the second game behind three-hit pitching of Derrick Harmon...
    Waseca beat Dodge Center 5-1 in the third game to be the only undefeated team in the tourney.
    Joel Tveite pitched the win as he raised his record to 9-3 on the year. He gave up seven hits, walked four and struck out three.
    Austin came back through the loser's bracket and handed Waseca their first loss, 12-2.
    Austin jumped out to an early lead, scoring four times in the top of the second inning.
    Waseca starter Chris Case ran into control problems and walked three batters to load the bases with one out. Four singles scored four runs.
    Austin pounded out 11 hits, including three homeruns off Case and reliever Pat Smith. Case suffered his first loss of the season as he gave up eight runs in four innings. He gave up seven hits, walked four and struck out five.
    Smith pitched three innings and gave up four runs on four hits and two walks while striking out one.
    - 25 years ago, August 11, 1987, Waseca County News

1987/ Braves beat Fairmont 8-5

    The Waseca Braves baseball team rallied for six runs in the bottom of the eighth inning to post an 8-5 win over the Fairmont Martins here Sunday night.
    The win, coming in the first game of a six-game play-off schedule, raised the Braves' season record to 23-14.
    - 25 years ago, August 11, 1987, Waseca County News