Dassel's baseball club had the champion team of central Minnesota in 1887 and 1903. The team of 1887 consisted of Watson, the catcher; Herkimer, the pitcher; O. Nash, first base; G. Nash, second base; McNulty, third base; Miller, short-stop; Kearns, left field; C. H. Nash, center field; and Ben Records, right field. The batter, in 1887, had four strikes and five balls, and fouls were just fouls and not strikes, so they didn't count as anything. Dassel's baseball line-up of 1903 was as follows: Lee Wright, catcher; Tom Riffe, the pitcher; Louis Boyer, first base; Arthur Nelson, second base; Charles Gibney, third base; William A. Linquist, shortstop; Albert Colberg, left field; Charles W. Henke, center field; and Fred F. Spath, right field. M. A. Scheldrup opened the Lion Drug Store in 1887, selling out to Anton Heedles in 1889, who operated the store until 1891, then moved it to Minneapolis. In 1891, Ben A. Records resigned his position as the village marshal and opened a confectionery and lunchroom which he sold to E. Braun, Jr., in 1893. In 1894, Records bought back his former place of business. R. C. Trudgen started a drug store in Dassel in 1900, which he kept going for two years, when he moved the stock to Shell Lake, Wisconsin. Peterson Brothers opened a drug store in 1905.