1919 Detroit Stars

A Calendar, Including Newspaper Clippings, of the 1919 Detroit Stars

1919 Detroit Stars

Stories are placed in order of the date they appeared.

April 20, 1919

Detroit, MI
"Detroit Stars 8, Maxwells 4. Donaldson, Left Field."

April 27, 1919

Detroit, MI
"Detroit Stars 3, Northway Motor 2. Struck out, by Donaldson 6."

May 3, 1919

Dallas, TX
"Sparks of the Diamond. - Eddie Douglass, former first baseman of the Dallas Black Giants has a regular berth with the Brooklyn Royal Giants. Edgar Wesley, former star of the Waco Navigators is now holding down first base job for Detroit and is getting his daily bingles. The famous Texas battery, Brown and Brown are now the property of the American Giants and made their debut before a Chicago gathering recently and walked off with the bacon. The same old pep that put the Texas sluggers on water wagon was shouldered the boys of the big show. They have made good. Waco has a comer in this boy Davis, who flings from the heart side. With careful training into one of the Giant's greatest stars. Blackmon of Waco hasn't struck his stride yet as everyone knows that Blackmon is one of the best fielding artists in the loop around the hot corner and is equally as dangerous with the stick."

May 7, 1919

Kitchener, ON
"Detroit Stars Beat Kitchener - Colored Club Too Advanced for Mint League Team. - Kitchener, Ontario, May 8. - Andy Kile, the former Canadian leaguer, made the first hit off Lefty John Donaldson's delivery in the ninth inning in the exhibition game here Wednesday afternoon between the Detroit Stars and the Kitchener Beavers, and scored on a close decision after Pete Hill and John Donaldson had misjudged a high fly off Manager Beatty's bat. These were the only hits made by the Beavers who were eating out of Donaldson's hand during the preceding eight innings. The final score was 4 to 1 in favor of the visitors. The game was well played and interesting throughout, and the 1,500 baseball enthusiasts were delighted with the performance of the local team, despite their weakness at bat. Tommy Bird at shortstop starred for the locals on the fielding department. Wilsogal pitched steady ball against the colored boys for six innings, but weakened in the seventh and was replaced by Risk who arrived from Milwaukee Wednesday morning. Both pitchers gave a good account of themselves."

Kitchener, ON
"Detroit Stars 4, Kitchener 1. Batteries, Donaldson and Petway, Wilson, Reik and Harrison."

May 10, 1919

Detroit, MI
"Detroit Stars 6, London 1."

May 11, 1919

Detroit, MI
"Detroit Stars 18, Cleveland Giants 3. *Donaldson out, hit by batted ball. Donaldson had two runs."

May 18, 1919

Detroit, MI
"Struck out by Donaldson 5."

May 25, 1919

Jackson, MI
"Goodwills Practice for Opening Session - With their opening game scheduled for Sunday when they will meet the Detroit Stars, the Goodwill Athletic Club baseball team will practice at the fair grounds this afternoon at 2 o'clock. They will report at the club rooms at 8 o'clock tonight for their uniforms. The Stars are one of the strongest clubs in Detroit, numbering some of the best Cuban and colored players in the country."

May 30, 1919

Detroit, MI
"Struck out by Donaldson 5."

June 7, 1919

Detroit, MI
"Donaldson, Right Field"

June 8, 1919

Detroit, MI
"Struck out, by Donaldson 1."

June 9, 1919

Detroit, MI
"Detroit Stars vs Cuban Stars game, mostly illegible."

June 10, 1919

Detroit, MI
"Donaldson, Right Field"

June 11, 1919

Detroit, MI
"Donaldson, 2 Runs."

June 14, 1919

Alma, MI
"Colored Stars to Battle Republics - (Special to the News Courier) - Alma, Michigan, June 13. - The Republic baseball team has billed the Detroit Stars for a battle Saturday on the local diamond so that two contests will feature the weekend bill instead of one, as the American Oil company team of Jackson is to appear here Sunday. Omstead, who pitched the Truckmakers to a victory over the Maxwell aggregation of Detroit last Truckey will be sent to the mound to bring home the Sunday game with the Jackson nine."

June 15, 1919

Chicago, IL
"Struck out, by Whitworth 4, by Donaldson 3."

June 17, 1919

Chicago, IL
"Donaldson, Right Field"

June 18, 1919

Chicago, IL
"Donaldson, Right Field"

June 19, 1919

Chicago, IL
"Struck out - Donaldson 3, Brown 2."

June 22, 1919

Detroit, MI
"Donaldson, Right Field and Pitcher."

June 23, 1919

Chicago, IL
"Detroit Stars Outclassed. - By Porter Smith. - The Detroit Stars finished their stay in Chicago by getting beaten by a score of 11-0 at Logan Square, the colored boys were completely outclassed at every stage of the game. Buck Freeman held them in the last game to six scattered hits, while the Logan Square team hit Crawford for eleven hard bingles."

June 24, 1919

Detroit, MI
"Donaldson, Right Field, Sacrifice Hit."

June 26, 1919

Detroit, MI
"Donaldson, Sacrifice Hit."

June 29, 1919

Detroit, MI
"Donaldson, Center Field"

July 4, 1919

Detroit, MI
"Detroit Stars 19, Pittsburgh 5."

July 7, 1919

Detroit, MI
"Donaldson, 2 Hits"

July 13, 1919

Detroit, MI
"Struck out - by Comstock 8, by Donaldson 2"

July 15, 1919

Atlantic City, NJ
"Rube Foster's Detroit Stars will open a series of games here today."

July 16, 1919

Atlantic City, NJ
"Detroit Stars 6, Giants 3. Batteries - Crawford and Petway, Redding and Gatewood"

Atlantic City, NJ
"Bacharach's Streak Broken - Atlantic City, New Jersey, July 17 - After winning eight shut-out games in a row the Bacharach Giants lost to the Detroit Stars in ten innings here yesterday. Score, 6 to 3."

Atlantic City, NJ
"Detroit Stars Break Bacharach's Streak - Special to the Inquirer - Atlantic City, New Jersey, July 16 (Special). - After winning eight shut-out games in a row, the Bacharach Giants lost to the Detroit Stars in ten innings here today, score 6 to 3. The visitors, after tieing the score in the ninth, came across with a batting rally in the tenth, netting three runs and the game. Redding fumbled the ball in the second inning, allowing two runs to score."

Atlantic City, NJ
"Baseball Notes - The Detroit Stars handed the Bacharach Giants their first defeat in many days at Inlet Park yesterday, winning out 2 to 0. The Detroit crowd plays Hilldale today."

July 17, 1919

Atlantic City, NJ
"Donaldson Pitching."

July 18, 1919

Atlantic City, NJ
"Walks Ten, But Wins - Atlantic City, July 19. - Bacharach Giants blanked the Detroit Stars here yesterday, 1 to 0. Although Roy Roberts passed ten men, good support by his teammates saved the game."

Atlantic City, NJ
"Bacharach Giants Win - Muff at Plate Costs Detroit Stars 1-0 Game at Atlantic City - Atlantic City, New Jersey, July 18 (Special). - Bacharach Giants blanked the Detroit Stars here today, 1 to 0, although Roberts passed ten men, good support by his teammates saved the game. Pugh scored the only run in the seventh, when Bruce Petway dropped the ball at the plate."

July 27, 1919

Detroit, MI
"Donaldson, Pinch Hitter"

July 28, 1919

Detroit, MI
"Detroit Stars 13, Chicago American Giants 3"

July 29, 1919

Detroit, MI
"Struck out - by Donaldson 7."

July 30, 1919

Detroit, MI
"Detroit 8, Chicago Giants 5. Donaldson, Left Field"

July 31, 1919

Detroit, MI
"Detroit Stars 12, Chicago Giants 8. Donaldson, 2 Hits One run."