The fledgling K.R.A.P. league began in 1903 with six teams. Concordia won the first two pennants then left the league to join the Federation of Agriculture, Retailers, and Tradesmen League. That league ran out of gas three seasons later and folded. Concordia rejoined the K.R.A.P. League the following season.

Dorchester won its only championship in 1905. The team disbanded the following spring after an inter-squad game lead to a massive bench-clearing brawl. Without enough players healthy enough to play on opening day, the team decided to forfeit the season.

Blue Rapids won its first pennant in 1906. The Blue Rapids Crawfish would be a dominant team in the league until 1925 when they left the league for spite.

Crete, Nebraska won championships in 1907, 1909, 1910, and 1911. Their league dominance ended abruptly due to the Great Cretan Uprising of 1912. Cretan took up arms against Cretan in a civil war that lasted 49 minutes, cost three lives (a mule and two pigs) and left the ballpark in ruins. Unconfirmed reports lay the blame for the violence at the feet of a seamstress who wanted to change the team’s colors to pink and black. A monument to those who fell that day was stolen in 1970 by University of Nebraska fraternity pledges. It was never recovered. Local residents claim the ghost of the mule can still be seen behind the convenience store that occupies the site of the old ballpark.

The absence of Cretans allowed the Gnomes take the pennant. Geneva had finished second twice before winning the 1912 pennant. Some league historians believe that Gnomes posed as Cretans in order to start the Cretan Uprising. At any rate, that’s what the owner of the mule believed, so he put a curse on Geneva’s baseball team. The Gnomes would not win another pennant until 1940.

Miltonvale won the next year and promptly moved to McPherson. I don’t mean just the team, the whole town moved. Miltonvale was later repopulated but failed to take to baseball the way the previous residents now living in McPherson did. However, they did field a Beer League Croquet team that won a national championship.

Moonlight won its first championship the following year. In 1915, Concordia won a third title and promptly left the league for greener pastures. They tried unsuccessfully to rejoin the K.R.A.P. league each of the next twenty years.

Beaver City won the next two championships and Blue Rapids closed the decade out with a win over league newcomer Portis. The Eskimos would find much K.R.A.P. success in the twenties.