Nebraska Minor League Baseball
Beatrice Blues 1933

After their great success of 1932, Beatrice had great expectations for 1933. The team had a number of returning players and fans thought a repeat championship was in their future. The St. Louis Cardinals agreed to purchase the contracts of at least four players from the league. Howard Moore was one of the players selected by St. Louis.

The finals saw prices at 40 cents for men and a quarter for women. The final series was well attended with crowds of over 1,500 at most games.

Roster

Sonny Brookhaus was once again the manager of the Blues and handled first base for the team. He batted .282 for the year and played 90 games at first base.

Second base was held down by "little" Larry Getz. He led the league in stolen bases with 55 for the year. Larry also led the league in runs scored with 100 crossings to his credit and batted .301 for the year.


Nebraska State League All Star
Third base was held down by Howard "Cobby" Moore. The Parsons Kansas native led the league in home runs with 19 for 1933. He was an all star selection for the year and was third in the league in batting with an average of .349.

Short stop Tunner Geist played in 33 games for the Blues and batted .305. Mitchell played short stop for both Beatrice and Sioux Falls during the year. He batted .254 for the year.

Catcher Homer Goethe, from Grand Island, batted .231 in the twenty six games he caught for the team. The Blues other catcher was Rojan in the 66 games he caught he batted .223.

Art Moore was in right field. In 106 games the Kansas City native batted .272.

Bill Swinger led the league in 1932 with 16 home runs but was beat out by his team mate Howard Moore in 1933. He batted .282 for the year and had sixteen home runs. Bill worked the off season in Beatrice at the local Swift plant.


Nebraska State League All Star
Left Field George Proost was named to the all star team at the utility position. The St. Louis native batted .323 for the year.

Johnny Cross played some leftfield for Beatrice in 1933. He played in 76 games and batted .233 for the year.

Pitchers:

Smoky Joe Mysza had a 10-8 record for Beatrice and appeared in 25 games. Joe graduated from Harrison Tech High School in Chicago. In 1930 he started with Fairbury, was released and picked up by Lincoln where he went 8-7. In 1931 he moved to Grand Island and in 1932 he was 13-3 for Grand Island. With the league contracting to four teams in 1933, Joe was picked up by Beatrice.

Honey Linson was 10-10 for 1933.

Mike Pociask was an all star in 1932 and led the league with 195 strike outs in 1933. He had a 19-6 record for the year and was named as an all star as a left handed pitcher. He also batted .328 for the year and played in 66 games, including 18 in right field. His off season was spent working in Beatrice.

Cotton Pippen was the star of the 1932 playoffs. He also won one of the playoff games in 1933. He spent the off season working at the Super Service station.

Orval Lohse was 11-10 for the year. He spent the off season working as a bookeeper in Beatrice.

Nebraska State League Standings 1933

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