The Buxton Wonders was a small club of black baseball players formed in Buxton, Iowa running from approximately 1907 to 1920.[1][2]
Buxton, Iowa was a company town founded by the Consolidation Coal Company in 1900. It remained a productive coal mining town until at least 1919. During many of those years, the company and town were host to the Buxton Wonders. The team also toured much of Iowa and the surrounding states.
In 1909, The Buxton Wonders won one game and lost one game in Buxton, Iowa against the Chicago Union Giants, facing pitchers, "the Lyons brothers" Jimmie Lyons and Bennie Lyons.[3] The Wonders were one of few teams to beat the Chicago Union Giants that year, where the team won 46 out of 56 games played.[3] The Union Giants appear to be regular visitors to Buxton's team.[4]
George L. Neal, Richard S. Lee, Washington[5] and Riley Sales[6] are often listed as the managers of the Buxton Wonders, and list the team address as 34 East Fourth Street in Buxton, Iowa.
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A partial team list includes:
Charles Adams, 1909[8]
Mule Armstrong
Blair [9]
George Bowman
Bremner, 1903, Second Base[10]
Herman Brooks, 1903, Right Field[10]
Frenchy Brown, 1903, First Base[10]
Clinne Carter, 1910, Short Stop[6]
John Cross, 1910, Catcher[6]
Higbee, 1905, Pitcher[5]
Ed Lee
Richard S. Lee, 1910, Manager[6]
McBridge
George L. Neal, 1903-1911, 2nd Baseman, Short Stop[6][10]
L. Nichols, 1909[8]
Lefty Pangburn
C. Rhodes, 1903, Left Field[10]
J. Rhodes, 1903-1905, Center Field[5]
Martin O. Russell, 1903, Catcher[11][10]
Steel, 1903, Pitcher[10]
Walter Taylor[9]
Cliff Wallace, 1910, Catcher[6]
Washington, 1903, Third Base[10]
Watkins
Robert Weaver, 1910, Left Field[6]
Dee Williams
Adolph Wilson, 1910[6]
Horace Wilson, 1910[6]
Skinny Wilson
E. Wise, 1905, Catcher[5]
In 1938, the Federal Writers Project Guide to Iowa reported that the site of Buxton was abandoned and that the locations of Buxton's former "stores, churches and schoolhouses are marked only by stakes." Every September, hundreds of former Buxton residents met on the former town's site for a reunion.[12]
The abandoned Buxton town was the subject of archaeological survey in the 1980s which investigated the economic and social aspects of material culture of African Americans in Iowa.[13]
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^Federal Writers' Project, The WPA Guide to 1930's Iowa, Viking Press, 1938, reprinted by the University of Iowa Press, 1986; page 81.
^Gradwohl, David M., and Nancy M. Osborn (1984) Exploring Buried Buxton. Iowa State University Press, Ames, Iowa.
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