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S24-1
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- 1936-05 (Creation)
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The Stadium High School baseball team, the Stadium Tigers, was photographed on the field at Stadium Bowl in May of 1936. The team, undefeated in eleven starts, was playing for the Southwest Washington title. The man to the left in the plain white sweatshirt is Coach John Heinrick. After a lapse of seven years, baseball was making a comeback as a major sport at Stadium High School, brought back by Coach Heinrick in his first teaching year at Stadium. Names, according to the Tacoma Times, for the front row, left to right: future U.S. District Court Judge Jack Tanner, (Nathan Hale) Ed Turner, Harry Werbisky, Fred LeVeque and Bill Stocklin. Second row: Doug Turnbull, Tom Hall, Bill Zenk, Mal Stevens, Vince Lucich, Maurice Turnbull and Dick Pease. Third row: Bob Knesal, Arnold Schurb, Mel Gillespie, Al Libke, Marion Scott and Paul Barragar. (T. Times 5/28/1936, pg. 15 ; "The Tahoma" 1936 SHS yearbook) (Corrections to newspaper account given by family member of the team)
Stadium High School (Tacoma)--1930-1940; Stadium Bowl (Tacoma); Baseball--Tacoma--1930-1940; Baseball players--Tacoma--1930-1940; Heinrick, John; Students--Tacoma--1930-1940;