The Camp Seven Mile Baseball Team

ID: 5328 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Washington State University Digital Archives.
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In 1935, Camp Seven Mile's baseball team won the Amateur Athletic Union (A.A.U.) league title, after winning ten consecutive games that season. The men practiced on a baseball diamond they had built at Camp Seven Mile, which in the winter would be converted into an ice rink for skating and hockey.

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