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Helena went home and Butte claimed the title by default. Butte spent that season presenting itself as the one club honoring the league's $200 monthly salary limit, carrying just two paid men at $100 each while Philipsburg, Helena and Bozeman ran between $500 and $700. The Great Falls Tribune advised readers to take that with a large amount of salt, on the grounds that Butte had just signed two professionals named Colgan and McVey.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom 1902 the franchise carried the Miners name and became the most well-traveled club in the state, passing through the Pacific Northwest League, the Pacific National League, the Montana State League, the Northwestern League, the Inter-Mountain League and the Union Association across parts of sixteen seasons. Butte won league championships in 1902 and 1903 and was a charter member of the Union Association when it formed in 1911.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHall of Fame pitcher Joe McGinnity was Butte's player-manager in 1916 and 1917, still taking the mound in his mid-forties. He had already won 246 major league games and earned the nickname Iron Man, a reference both to his durability and to the foundry work he took on in the off-season.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Montana State League itself ran in scattered seasons between 1892 and 1925 and was made up entirely of Montana clubs in every year but 1909, when teams from Idaho and Utah joined. 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