Big John Marshall Back in Lewiston

Broncs’ Pitcher Signs Up Again
LEWISTON, Idaho, Jan. 14—Pitcher John Marshall, who won 21 games for Lewiston of the Western International Baseball League during the 1953 season, signed a contract Thursday to play with the Broncs.
Marshall, who topped the league in strikeouts with 165 for the year, lost only 12 games.
The club also announced it has given Ken Richardson, veteran third baseman, his outright release.
A pitchers swap with Vancouver fell through, Business Manager Tom Tabor said, because Lewiston’s Manny Perez refused to go to Vancouver. Perez was to go to Vancouver in exchange for John Guldborg, who was suspended from the Capilanos in mid-season last year after a disagreement with management.

Lewiston, This Bud’s For You

Caps Will Get Perez If Guldborg Behaves
[Vancouver Province, Jan. 6, 1954]
Manny Perez, Lewiston Broncs’ pitcher who shut out Vancouver Capilanos in last season’s WIL opener, won’t be given the chance this year.
General Manager Bill Brenner of the Caps has made a “conditional” deal to obtain the veteran pitcher who finished with a 12-12 record last season.
A report from Lewiston Tuesday said the Broncs are giving up Perez for another righthander, John (Bud) Guldborg, who started last season with the Caps but went home to California after compiling a 5-6 pitching mark.
But the trade is conditional on both pitchers reporting. There’s no worry about Perez, who told Brenner, his ex-Lewiston manager, that he wanted to play for him. But Guldborg, a temperamental soul, may not be partial to going to Lewiston.