Back in the 1920s and ’30s, when Lowman was a smidge bigger than it is today, folks used to travel from miles around to see the Lowman Fightin’ Pines. But they didn’t just come for the Idaho Mythical Minor Leagues season — the Pines were just as famous for their lumberjack-style training, which married intense firefighting prep work with baseball. These burly men built their biceps swinging axes into lodgepole pines and clearing brush. Their catcher, James “Sourdough” McKnight, developed his famous stamina for this physically grueling position by shimmying up 75-foot trees; he’d charge onlookers 5 cents a piece for the privilege of watching him work, which went to the team’s travel fund.