- Date
- 1981-09-06
- Kind
- Sports
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- celebrationcommunityrecreationsportscommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
Beaver Island businesses closed on September 6, 1981, for a community picnic and Oldsters–Youngsters baseball game at the Bud McDonough Memorial Park. The inning table records a 13–12 Youngsters victory, followed by shared food and a second informal game.
Evidence limits
The two newspaper accounts are community reports with humorous narration; they do not provide a formal roster, attendance count, or independent scorebook.
Sources
- Reports that businesses closed for a September 6 community picnic, grills, shared dishes, and an Oldsters–Youngsters game at the Bud McDonough Memorial Park. The inning table gives the Youngsters a 13–12 win; the Sweet Adelines served as cheerleaders, and a second informal game followed the meal. A companion account by Dick Burris, as told to Dave Gladish, adds humorous play-by-play and a brief fire-truck intervention for Bud Esch. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1981-09_Beaver-Beacon
- The held fourteen-page PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the picnic and baseball reports.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1981-09_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Labor Day picnic and Oldsters–Youngsters baseball game, 1981”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-labor-day-picnic-baseball-1981/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Island Closes for the Day and The Labor Day Ball Game, Beaver Beacon, September–October 1981 combined issue. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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