1920s: Layton was a 'hotbed' for baseball

   A baseball team from Layton, is shown circa 1930. The photograph was taken at Lagoon Park, a popular hotspot for baseball games in that era. Standing, left to right are: Clair Whitesides, Norman Brown, John Brown, Ted Brown, Kenneth Slater, Bill Cowley, Lewis Briggs, Robert Barton and Fred Jones. Bottom, left to right, are: Reed Simmons, Samuel Scoffield, Kenneth Page, Lewis Major, Ural Major and Stanford Cowley. The photographer was Lewis Major.

                                                                                 (Heritage Museum of Layton photograph.)

LAYTON was a hotbed for Baseball in the 1920s. According to the

Salt Lake Herald Republican newspaper of April 2, 1920, Layton 

was going to join a six-city club of baseball teams for competition 

later that summer.

Layton "has always been a hotbed of baseball," the newspaper 

reported.

Brigham City, Ogden, Bountiful, Garland and Malad, Idaho were 

the other five teams in the league. Each team was to supply a 

starting fund of $1,000 (That's nearly $13,000 in today's value) for 

the league.