1910
Seward was one of the charter members of the Nebraska State League in 1910. The league was a class "D" league with a salary limit of $900.00 and a player limit of 12 after May 28th. May 14, 1910, opening day in Seward was cold and windy but that did not deter the crowd of almost 600 baseball fans. Ceremonies included a speech by mayor Merriam and the college band played as entertainment. Seward hosted Red Cloud and won by a score of 7 to 6. The Seward Independent Demorat called the team the "White Sox" while other baseball historians have called them the "Statesmen".
At the end of the first game the manager a man named John Fink was released and Clint Neff was named manager of the team.
in June, the Seward team played before 1,200 fans on the day of the Woodman picnic and defeated Red Cloud by a score of 4 to 1.
For the year they wound up 50 and 62, 16 games behind the league leader Fremont.
The team was third in the league in batting with a .234 average and first in fielding. While lineups for the teams changed frequently there will be an attempt to list the people who played a majority of the games for a particular team. Many papers used only last names and the Seward paper did not include any box scores. The list below comes from the text of various games and box scores from other newspapers.

Clint Neff was a fixture in the Nebraska State League. In 1910 he was the manager of the Seward team. He played in whatever postion the team needed; outfield, first base and catcher. He led the Seward franchise in batting and was fourth in the league with a .312 average in 93 games.

Clyde Neff was the regular at second for the Seward team. He averaged .274 for the year.

Atkinson played 57 games at first base for the White Sox. He averaged .187 in the games he played.

Ling and Booth split the third base job. Ling also played in the outfield and in 112 games averaged .265 for the year. Booth also split his time between third, short stop and the outfield and averaged .220 for the year.

Short stop for Seward was held down by Harris He averaged .198 in 112 games, 84 at short.

Wally was the catcher for 57 games and averaged .221.

The outfield garden was populated by a lot of different people in 1910. With Clint Neff, Ling, Booth and other infielders taking some turns in the garden. Henry played 76 games in the outfield. He averaged .254 for the Statesmen/WhiteSox. Nine other players played a few games for Seward during the year.

Pitching was a weak part of the 1910 team. They did not have a pitcher listed in the top 15 in the league for the year. Their best pitcher was Stewart with a 12-12 record for the year. Other pitchers included Harrington who was 11-12, Walker who managed a 9-12 record and Hanson who was 8-12 for the year.

Nebraska State League Standings 1910

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