Twin Ports League

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Twin Ports League
Classification Class E (1943)
Sport Minor League Baseball
FounderFrank Wade
First season1943
CeasedJuly 14, 1943
PresidentFrank Wade (1943)
No. of teams4
Country United States of America
Most titles1
Superior Bays (1943)

The Twin Ports League was an American minor baseball league that existed for six weeks (May 30 through July 13) during the wartime 1943 season. Comprising four teams based in Duluth, Minnesota and Superior, Wisconsin.

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History

The Twin Ports League was the only league to be designated Class E—one level below the previously lowest minor league level, Class D—by the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (the formal name of Minor League Baseball).

According to Baseball America s Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball, many of the players in the Twin Ports League were employed in the Twin Ports' war factories, dockyards and shipyards. The teams included the Duluth Dukes, Duluth Heralds, Duluth Marine Iron, and the Superior Bays. The Superior club was in first place when the league disbanded on July 13, 1943.

Only one player in the Twin Ports League eventually reached Major League BaseballErnie Rudolph, who pitched in seven games for the 1945 Brooklyn Dodgers.

Former major league player Wally Gilbert managed the Marine Iron team. [1]

Cities represented

Standings and statistics

1943 Twin Ports League

Team standingsWLPCTGBManagers
Superior Bays 117.611-Red Treadwell / John Schroeder
Duluth Marine Iron 97.5631.0 Wally Gilbert
Duluth Dukes 910.4742.5Bud McPherson
Duluth Heralds 510.3334.5Frank Summers

The league disbanded July 13. [2] [3]

Player statistics
PlayerTeamStatTotPlayerTeamStatTot
Wally Gilbert Marine IronBA.456Ed AndersonMarine IronW4
John SchroederSuperiorRuns21Bob ConnollySuperiorW4
John SchroederSuperiorHits27Verl WestergardSuperiorSO56
John SchroederSuperiorRBI23Verl WestergardSuperiorERA2.25
John NorlanderDukesHR1R.A. RyanDukesPCT1.000 3-0
Joe ShontsHeraldsHR1

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References

  1. Ray Luurs. "Wally Gilbert". SABR BioProject.
  2. "1943 Twin Ports League". Baseball-Reference.com.
  3. 1 2 Johnson, Lloyd; Wolff, Miles, eds. (2007). The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball (Third ed.). Baseball America. ISBN   978-1932391176.