1918 USA photo amateur men’s baseball Pittsburgh District champions

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Large photo of an amateur men’s baseball team posing, possibly Ambridge Regents? They were the 1918 champions of the Pittsburgh division. Photo taken at Junction Park.

14 players, 1 bat boy and 2 managers. They seems to have different jerseys. One player has 'AMBRIDGE'(?) on front.

Labeled lower part of photo ‘AMATEUR CHAMPIONS PITTSBURGH DISTRICT -1918-’

LR photo taken ‘Sep-21-18.

10 ⅜ x 13 ½ 

Junction Park

Two baseball diamonds were built on the infield of the racetrack in 1908, and the grandstands at the park were expanded to seat more than 10,000 people. There, teams from all over the region would stage their big games. Amateur and semi-pro teams from Beaver Falls and Rochester played major league clubs in exhibition games there each summer. Players such as Honus Wagner, Max Carey and the great Negro Leagues slugger Josh Gibson played on the Junction Park diamonds.

https://www.timesonline.com/story/lifestyle/columns/2019/06/04/rise-fall-trolley-parks/4996022007/

Ambridge Our Boys baseball team. 

...the 1919 team, the amateur champions of the Greater Pittsburgh Federation.

Right now, I don't have the names of any of the players, but the September 11, 1920, Daily Times says that the manager was S. G. Horlick, and the team was "better known as Horlick's Ambridge club." That same article described the team as "one of the strongest and fastest independent baseball units in Beaver County."

Steve Horlick owned a sporting goods shop in Ambridge and organized and managed teams in several sports. 

The August 24, 1919, Pittsburgh Press says that the previous year, the team had played under the name "Ambridge Regents" and were The Press Liberty League champs.

https://ambridgememories.blogspot.com/search/label/baseball