Blackfoot Valley Dispatch - The Blackfoot Valley's News Source Since 1980

During the post-WWII years and into the late 1950s almost every town in Montana had a sandlot baseball team.

Baseball was in its heyday with Mantle, Ford, Ted Williams and others all playing, in those days. Even the smallest towns fielded teams, and the larger cities had a number of them.

As small as the town is, Helmville had its own baseball nine. All over the nation, young men who had won t...