page_title: Pioneer Base Ball Club (Oregon)
section_title: Joseph Buchtel
hierarchical_section_title: Pioneer Base Ball Club (Oregon) / Players / Joseph Buchtel
caption_attribution_description: English: Original caption: Joseph Buchtel: The pioneer who raised the money to erect the monument and preserve the site of the Champoeg meeting
context_page_description: The Pioneer Base Ball Club, known also as the Oregon Pioneers and the Portland Pioneers, was an American amateur baseball team that represented East Portland and Portland, Oregon in the mid-to-late 1860s. It was the first baseball team organized in the state of Oregon. The first mention of the team came on August 3, 1866, when the Pioneer Club played an intra-squad game at their home field in East Portland. The Pioneers attempted to construct a full season in 1867. They played against other amateur teams from Vancouver, Washington, Portland and Oregon City, Oregon. In September 1867, the Pioneers issued a challenge to any amateur team in Oregon and Washington Territory to square-off at the Oregon State Fair. Two teams, the Willamettes of Portland and Clackamas of Oregon City, accepted the challenge.
context_section_description: Joseph Buchtel was born in Ohio in November 1830. He came to Portland in 1852 by covered wagon at the age of 23. His first job in Portland was for Leland H. Wakefield daguerreotype studio on Front Street. Eventually, Buchtel took the company over from Wakefield. He was instrumental in the creation of the Pioneer Club. He owned and operated Portland's first photography studio at 5 Morrison Street. In 1868, Buchtel was elected the president of the Oregon, Washington and Idaho Territories Association of Base Ball Players. Buchtel was married to Josephine of New York. In 1882, Joseph Buchtel started working for the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office. By 1890, he was working as a real estate agent at Buchtel & Mall Real Estate at 958 12ᵗʰ Avenue. He died on August 10, 1916, in Portland. Buchtel also raised the money for a monument at the site of the Champoeg meeting which he helped preserve.
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