Frank M. "Wildfire" Schulte was an American outfielder in Major League Baseball (MLB) who played for the Chicago Cubs,Pittsburgh Pirates,Philadelphia Phillies,and Washington Senators from 1904 to 1918. He helped the Cubs win four National League (NL) championships and two World Series.
Herold Dominic "Muddy" Ruel was an American professional baseball player,coach,manager and general manager. He played as a catcher in Major League Baseball from 1915 to 1934 for the Washington Senators,St. Louis Browns,New York Yankees,Boston Red Sox,Detroit Tigers,and the Chicago White Sox.
William Gideon Nance was an outfielder in Major League Baseball who played with the Louisville Colonels of the National League from 1897 to 1898,and then for the Detroit Tigers of the American League in 1901. He was nicknamed "Kid" or "Doc".
Arthur Carle Griggs was an American professional baseball player. He played seven seasons in Major League Baseball in Major League Baseball between 1909 and 1918,compiling a .277 batting average. He appeared in 442 major league games,including 195 games as a first baseman,96 games as an outfielder,and 60 games as a second baseman.
Emory Elmo "Topper" Rigney was an American professional baseball player between 1920 and 1928. He played six seasons in Major League Baseball as a shortstop for the Detroit Tigers (1922–1925),Boston Red Sox (1926–1927),and Washington Senators (1927).
Charles Henry "Chick" Shorten was an American baseball player. He played professional baseball as an outfielder for 18 years from 1911 to 1928,including eight seasons in Major League Baseball with the Boston Red Sox (1915–1917),Detroit Tigers (1919–1921),St. Louis Browns (1922),and Cincinnati Reds (1924). He was a member of the 1916 Red Sox team that won the World Series,and Shorten compiled a .571 batting average in the 1916 World Series. In eight major league seasons,Shorten appeared in 527 games,including 352 as an outfielder,and compiled a .275 career batting average.
George Washington Harper was an American professional baseball player. From 1916 to 1929,he played as an outfielder in Major League Baseball for the Detroit Tigers,Cincinnati Reds,Philadelphia Phillies,New York Giants,St. Louis Cardinals,and Boston Braves. Harper played 1073 major league games and had a career .303 batting average with 91 home runs and 530 RBI. After his major league career ended,Harper returned to the minor leagues,where he played and managed for several more seasons.
Herman Polycarp Pillette,nicknamed "Old Folks" in the later part of his career,was an American right-handed professional baseball pitcher,who played in 29 seasons (1917–1945). During his playing days,Pillette was listed as 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) tall,weighing 190 pounds (86 kg),while batting and throwing right-handed.
Archie Joseph Yelle was an American baseball catcher. He played professional baseball for 20 years from 1911 to 1930,including 87 games in Major League Baseball for the Detroit Tigers from 1917 to 1919. He also played seven years in the Pacific Coast League for the San Francisco Seals. In 17 seasons in the minor leagues,Yelle appeared in 1,449 games,1,305 of them as a catcher. He was posthumously inducted into the Saginaw County Sports Hall of Fame in 2013.
Joseph Stanley Cobb,born Joseph Stanley Serafin,was an American baseball catcher. He played professional baseball for 12 years between 1917 and 1931,including one game in Major League Baseball for the Detroit Tigers on April 25,1918. He was the starting catcher and batted .320 for both the 1923 and 1924 Baltimore Orioles,teams that are ranked as the 19th and fifth best minor league team in baseball history.
Raymond Bernard "Snooks" Dowd was an American baseball and American football player. He played college football for Lehigh University. He also played professional baseball as an infielder from 1918 to 1927,including stints with the Detroit Tigers (1919),Philadelphia Athletics (1919),and Brooklyn Robins (1926).
Guy Isbel Tutwiler,nicknamed "King Tut",was an American baseball player. Between 1910 and 1924,he appeared in more than 1,500 games as professional baseball player,including more than 600 games as an outfielder and more than 125 games as a first baseman. He played in Major League Baseball for 27 of those games with the Detroit Tigers in 1911 and 1913. The bulk of his career was in the minor leagues,including five seasons with the Providence Grays.
Hugh Jenkin High,nicknamed "Bunny," was an American baseball player. He played professional baseball as an outfielder for 15 years from 1911 to 1925,including six years in Major League Baseball for the Detroit Tigers in 1913 and 1914 and for the New York Yankees from 1915 through 1918. He compiled a career batting average of .250 and led the American League's outfielders with a .981 fielding percentage in 1915. He later played for the Vernon Tigers in the Pacific Coast League from 1919 to 1923.
Ralph Edward Sharman,nicknamed "Bally",was an American baseball outfielder. He played professional baseball from 1915 to 1917,including 13 gamesin Major League Baseball for the 1917 Philadelphia Athletics. He died in a training accident while serving in the United States Army in 1918 during World War I.
Samuel Bruce Vick was an American professional right fielder in Major League Baseball. He played for the New York Yankees from 1917 to 1920,and the Boston Red Sox in 1921. He stood 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m),and weighed 163 lb.,and he batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Batesville,Mississippi,and attended Millsaps College in Jackson,Mississippi.
The Eastern League was a Minor League Baseball sports league that operated from 1916 through mid-season of 1932. The successor to an early 20th-century edition of the New England League,it was not related to two other like-named leagues:an earlier Eastern League founded in 1884 that was absorbed into the International League,and a later Eastern League that began as the New York–Pennsylvania League in 1923.
Wade Hampton Lefler was a Major League Baseball player. He played in six games for two different major league teams in 1924,mostly as a pinch hitter. He also played in one game as a right fielder. He was the first player to make the major leagues after attending Duke University.
JoséRodríguez,nicknamed "Joseíto" or "El Hombre Goma" in Spanish and "Joe" in English,was a Cuban infielder who played in Major League Baseball from 1916 to 1918 and in the Cuban League from 1914 to 1939. In the majors,he played for the New York Giants and was primarily a second baseman,while in the Cuban League and the U.S. minor leagues he mostly played first base. A defensive specialist,according to Roberto González Echevarría,Rodríguez "was considered the best defensive first baseman in Cuba" of his time. He was also a long-time manager in the Cuban League and managed for one season in the minors. He was inducted into the Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame in 1951.
Clarence Newton Crum was a professional baseball player. In an eight-year career,Crum played in the 1917 and 1918 Major League Baseball seasons for the Boston Braves. Crum was officially listed as standing 6 feet 1 inch (185 cm) and weighing 175 pounds (79 kg).
Minor league baseball teams were based in Fitchburg,Massachusetts between 1877 and 1929. Fitchburg minor league teams played as members of the New England Association in 1877 and 1895,the New England League in 1899,1914–1915 and 1919,the Eastern League in 1922 and New England League in 1929. Fitchburg hosted minor league home games ad the Fitchburg Driving Park.
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