The following material was taken from "Town Team Baseball - A History of the Chaska Cubs" which was created by members of the Chaska Historical Society for the 2001 Sesquicentennial. Specific contributors that need to be acknowledged are: LaVonne Barac, Bob Bruers, James Faber, Andy Hanson, Tom Hoen, Tracy D. Swanson, Ray Tschimperle, Dale and Denny Welter.

The first mention of the Chaska Cubs baseball team was in the July 26, 1928 issue of the Weekly Valley Herald. It was called "an organization of younger baseball enthusiasts" and that day the cubs lost to the Hazeltime Aggies 3-0.

Two members of that first Cub's team were Tony Ryski and Bert Leivermann.

In August of 1929 the Herald again referred to the Cubs but said the team had not yet been "officially christened".

They won a doubleheader that Sunday with a lineup of "Blaz" Leivermann, "Snookie" Fiebelkorn, "Bris" Geisler, "Sparrow" Dressen, Laurel Bury, LeRoy "Skinny" Geiser, Bert Leivermann, Gus Leivermann, Tony Ryski, and Elford "Schimmy" Schimelpfenig.

The site of ball bames in Chaska has shifted times as ballpark locatoins changed as often as the ups and won of the teams representing "Sugar City" through the year.

Earliest ballparks were situated on east 6th Street with a high board fence surrounding the lot. Another field was on the present site of Salden Bus Garage.

Later diamonds were located at the foot of East Second Street on the modern day Carver Country Courthouse property.

The next home of Chaska baseball was on east highway 212 near the present day Lenzen automobile dealership. A grandstand at the park was heavily damaged during the 1925 tornado. That same grandstand was dismantled and reconstructed at a new site in 1933 when land was donated to the city by C.A. and Ray Lubanski for Valley Park across the Minnesota River.

The baseball field was part of a park which also contained picnic grounds and the famouse night spot, the Valley Ballroom. It was the home of the Chaska Cubs until 1950.

In 1930 the Cubs were being led by a Battery of "Blaz" Lievermann, catcher and Tony "the Cyclone Kid" Ryski, pitcher. At one point the team had a 24-game winning streak.

In 1932 the Chaska Cubs won the state amateur baseball tournament behind pitchers Severin "Googler" Stans and Ron DelaHunt, a draftee from Young America.

The two Cubs threw back-to-back no hitters, a state tourney record unmatched for years. "Blaz" Leivermann led the Cubs' offensive attack with three triples-one to each outfield area.

the rest of the roster included: Poppitz, Geiser, Leivermann, Glowatzke, Schimelpfenig, Bert Leiverman, A. Litfin, J. Litfin, and Gnan. Herb Eder was the team's "rookie" manager. Never was Chaska sports enthusiasm more evident then that day in 1932 when the championship was won by the Cubs.

On the first day of teh torunament, "the city was deserted. Some business places closed for half a day", reported the Herald.

Said a St. Paul Dispatch columnist, "Chaska sent 1500 fans to St. Paul to boost the Chaska ball team in the recent state tounament.

There are at least four American Association cities which could profitably transfer their teams to Chaska." And the enthusiasm didn't diminish when the team came home a winner. "The quietness of a normal Sunday evening in Chaska was rent by celebration - honking auto horns, the American Legion Drum and Bugle Corps leading a snake dance in which sedate but exuberant citizens threw aside inhibitions and marched for blocks.

In subsequent years, Chaska again won the championship but it was never quite the same as '32", remembered James Faber.

The precedding text was taken from "Town Team Baseball - A History of the Chaska Cubs", published 2001 by Chaska Cubs Baseball Board of Directors.