Source: Rockford Republic Fed. 24 1914
Rockford Industrial Athletic Association
“Two teams to start Battle for Industrial Baseball Championship” – 9/5/1937
Source: Rockford Morning Star 9/5/1937
Sundstrand “Teammates for Life” – 1944 RIAA photo,
Lower photo: 2008
Source: Rockford Register Star 9/24/2009 The Way We Were column
Rockford Fire Dept. softball team
Source: donated photograph, no date or names given
National Lock News, 1937 – 1937 Baseball Team
Source: National Lock News, August 1927, Vol. 1, p. 4, p 23
“Factory Cagers in Close Tilts” – 1946, R.I.A.A. Industrial League
Source: Rockford Register-Republic Nov. 20, 1946
“Second Round Play Starts in Industrial” – 1939, Legion Park
Source: Rockford Morning Star July 22, 1939
Rockford Drill Girls softball league champions – 1945, R.I.A.A.
Same photographs, 2 versions of lightened up from microfilm. Rockford Morning Star 8/26/1945
Caption reads: “Rockford Drill girls, champions of the National division of the girls’ Industrial softball league, took a one-game lead over the Barber-Colman girls, American loop title winners and defending champions of 1944, by defeating the B-C team 6-5 of the first game of the championship series played last week. The second series game will be played next Thursday evening. Pictured above is the Rockford Drill squad with Sophie Harezlak and Lou Johnson absent when the picture was taken. Top row-left to right- Delores Carlson, Dorothy Goubas, Helen Young, Josephine Castelli, Nat Giardini and Irene Picavet. Bottom Row – left to right- Fern Krugjohann, Betty Solar, Leona Rager, Manager Floyd Johnson, Capt. Lillian Holmberg, Angeline Spadacini, Ida Mae Schweiger.
Bowling League Standings Oct 18 1949 – R.I.A.A. “A”, Business Men’s
Source: Rockford Sports and Entertainment Guide, Oct. 18, 1949
“Factory Teams Open Soft Ball League Season” – June 19, 1929
Source: Rockford Daily Republic June 19, 1929 Article Continues Below