Early Baseball in Powder River County

Even before Powder River County become its own after the split from Custer County, there was baseball. In these tight communities with homesteads small and close together, all you had to do is yell, "who's ready for a game?" and your interested friends and family would appear.

According to Echoing Foosteps, the creation of baseball teams

struck a victory in civic cooperation. A wave of excitement enthusiasm and loyalty created by the ball games was contagious and curved from home to home, until almost the entire neighborhood was in attendance and backing their team at games on summer Sunday afternoons. As a worth-while sport and community entertainment it outscored any other that had hit the vicinity to that time.

Powder River County baseball teams consisted of: Kingsley, Broadus, Ashland, Doyle Creek, Pear Creek, Olive, Volborg, Otter, Coalwood, East Fork, Baking Powder, Sonnette and Biddle.