The Missouri State League was a short–lived Class D level baseball minor league that played in the 1911 season. The league began play with five teams, all based in Missouri. The Missouri State League folded during the 1911 season.

Missouri State League
ClassificationClass D (1911)
SportMinor League Baseball
First season1911
CeasedJune 4, 1911
DirectorW.G. Lynch (1911)
James Lay (1911)
No. of teams5
CountryUnited States of America
Most titles1
Brookfield Cubs (1911)
Related
competitions
Missouri-Iowa-Nebraska-Kansas League

History

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The Missouri State League began the 1911 season as a five–team league with charter franchises based in Brookfield, Missouri, Jefferson City, Missouri, Kirksville, Missouri, Macon, Missouri, and Sedalia, Missouri. The Brookfield Hustlers folded on May 19, 1911 and the Sedalia Cubs moved to Brookfield after the Hustlers folded. On June 2, 1911, the Jefferson City Senators franchise folded. The Missouri State League permanently folded after play on June 4, 1911. The Sedalia/Brookfield Cubs finished in 1st place with a record of 11–8, compiling a 7–3 record based in Sedalia and 4–5 in Brookfield.[1][2][3]

The league began play on May 11, 1911, before folding on June 5, 1911.[4]

1911 cities represented

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1911 Standings and statistics

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Missouri State League standings
schedule

Team standings W L PCT GB Managers
Sedalia Cubs /
Brookfield Cubs
11 8 .579 -- R.T. Easley
Macon Athletics 10 8 .566 0.5 Brooks Gordon
Jefferson City Senators 11 9 .550 0.5 Chief Myers
Kirksville Osteopaths 9 12 .429 3.0 Senter Rainey
Brookfield Hustlers 0 4 .000 NA Ginger Lyons

Brookfield Hustlers disbanded May 19.
Sedalia (7–3) moved to Brookfield May 24.
Jefferson City disbanded June 2
League folded June 5.

1911 player statistics
Player Team Stat Tot Player Team Stat Tot
John Herman Macon BA .407 Gunder
William Akers
Monegan
Jefferson City
Macon
Kirksville
W
W
W
2
2
2
Bert St. John Macon Runs 9 Monegan Kirksville SO 44
Kline Jefferson City Hits 13 Four tied PCT 1.000 1–0
David Kraft Kirksville HR 3

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References

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  • Sumner, Benjamin Barrett. Minor League Baseball Standings:All North American Leagues, Through 1999. Jefferson, N.C.:McFarland. ISBN 0-7864-0781-6
  1. ^ a b "1911 Missouri State League". Baseball-Reference.com.
  2. ^ a b Johnson, Lloyd; Wolff, Miles, eds. (2007). The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball (Third ed.). Baseball America. ISBN 978-1932391176.
  3. ^ "1911 Missouri State League (MSL) Minor League Baseball Standings on StatsCrew.com". www.statscrew.com.
  4. ^ "1911 Missouri State League (MSL) Minor League Baseball on StatsCrew.com". www.statscrew.com.