Petaluma Alerts
Area: Sonoma (Petaluma)
Year: 1905

Petaluma Alerts
Area: Sonoma (Petaluma)
Year: 1913

Petaluma Alerts
Area: Sonoma (Petaluma)
Year: 1907

Petaluma Alerts
Area: Sonoma (Petaluma)
Year: 1904

Description: They are wearing shirts of Petaluma Alerts, Golden Eagle Mill and other businesses.

"The 1904 nine had to live down a reputation built by the 1903 team that was labeled 'a pack of hoodlums' after a bad weekend in Fresno.  A Fresno writer claimed two members of the team took money to throw a game and that some players 'smashed furniture and were drunk and disorderly in the streets.'  The game was cancelled to allow the offenders to leave as rapidly as possible."

Greatest Local Nine Ever?

At least one Petaluma resident, Willet Hopkins, claims that the men pictured here formed the best local baseball team ever to play in town.  He might get some agrument, but Hopkins claims without hesitation that the 1903 Petaluma Alerts pictured here were the all-time best.

Back row (left to right): unidentified, unidentified

Middle row (left to right): Clyde Beatty (captain), Bob Ayers, Buck Howard, Tom Caufield

Front row (left to right): William Kennealy, L.V. Waymire, Bill Dunning (mgr), Bill Evart, Toots Balderson