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Canadian League
The Canadian League was a minor league baseball league that operated in Canada in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The first version of the league operated in 1885, then from 1896–1899, becoming a Class-D league in 1899 and merging into the International League in 1900. In 1905 there was a four-team class D loop known as the Canadian League. Another league using that title ran from 1911 through 1915 — it was originally ranked a D league as well, moved to a C rating a year later and in 1914 got a B classification. Frank Shaughnessy managed the Ottawa team from 1913 to 1915. The league briefly returned in 1905 and then operated again from 1911 to 1915. Team statistics 1885 *Guelph, ON: Guelph Maple Leafs *Hamilton, ON: Hamilton Clippers *Hamilton, ON: Hamilton Primroses *London, ON: London Cockneys *Toronto, ON: Toronto Torontos 1899 * Chatham, Ontario (ON): Chatham Reds *Guelph, ON: Guelph Maple Leafs *Hamilton, ON: Hamilton Blackbirds *London, ON: London ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minor League
Minor leagues are professional sports leagues which are not regarded as the premier leagues in those sports. Minor league teams tend to play in smaller, less elaborate venues, often competing in smaller cities/markets. This term is used in North America with regard to several organizations competing in various sports. They generally have lesser fan bases, much smaller revenues and salaries, and are used to develop players for bigger leagues. The minor league concept is a manifestation of the franchise system used in North American sports, whereby the group of major league teams in each sport is fixed for long periods between expansions or other adjustments, which only take place with the consent of the major league owners. In Europe, and many other parts of the world, association football(Soccer), basketball, american football, baseball, handball,hockey etc leagues have many divisions below the ''top-flight level'' as part of the football pyramid. In other parts of the worl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pete Lohman
George F. "Pete" Lohman (October 21, 1864 – November 21, 1928), was an American professional catcher in Major League Baseball for the 1891 Washington Statesmen Washington commonly refers to: * Washington (state), United States * Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States ** A metonym for the federal government of the United States ** Washington metropolitan area, the metropolitan area centered on .... He played in the minor leagues through 1905 and also managed in the minor leagues in parts of six seasons. External links 1864 births 1928 deaths Sportspeople from Washington County, Minnesota Major League Baseball catchers Baseball players from Minnesota 19th-century baseball players Washington Statesmen players Sacramento Altas players Leadville Blues players Oakland Colonels players Los Angeles Seraphs players Phillipsburg Burgers players Los Angeles Angels (minor league) players Milwaukee Brewers (minor league) players Omaha Omahogs players St. Jose ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ingersoll, ON
Ingersoll is a town in Oxford County on the Thames River in southwestern Ontario, Canada. The nearest cities are Woodstock to the east and London to the west. Ingersoll is situated north of and along Highway 401. Oxford County Road 119 (formerly Ontario Highway 19) runs north diagonally through the town. A Canadian National rail line bisects the town east to west through its centre. Passenger service from the Ingersoll train station is provided to other stops in Southwestern Ontario by Via Rail. To the south is a CPR line, with spurs into local industries, which provides freight service to points in the region. The local high school is Ingersoll District Collegiate Institute. The Ingersoll area was first settled in the 1790s by families from New England, became famous for homemade cheese production before the War of 1812, and its surrounding County of Oxford was home to the first cheese factories in Canada, starting in 1864. In 1866, through collaboration by the town's business ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brantford Indians
The Brantford Indians were a professional ice hockey team from Brantford, Ontario in Canada. The team played for four seasons in the Ontario Professional Hockey League (OPHL), from 1907 to 1911. Biography The Brantford Indians had their best OPHL season in 1908–09, finishing second behind the Galt Professionals. During the same season, on January 14, 1909 two of the players on the team, forwards Jack Marks (broken arm and fractured ribs) and Walter "Gid" Miller (cut off finger), were seriously injured when the team was involved in a train accident outside of Guelph Guelph ( ; 2021 Canadian Census population 143,740) is a city in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. Known as "The Royal City", Guelph is roughly east of Kitchener and west of Downtown Toronto, at the intersection of Highway 6, Highway 7 and Wel ..., when the rear coach of the Grand Trunk Railway passenger train they were traveling with ran into a ditch and overturned. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brantford, ON
Brantford ( 2021 population: 104,688) is a city in Ontario, Canada, founded on the Grand River in Southwestern Ontario. It is surrounded by Brant County, but is politically separate with a municipal government of its own that is fully independent of the county's municipal government. Brantford is situated on the Haldimand Tract, traditional territory of the Neutral, Mississauga, and Haudenosaunee peoples. The city is named after Joseph Brant, an important Mohawk leader, soldier, farmer and slave owner. Brant was an important Loyalist leader during the American Revolutionary War and later, after the Haudenosaunee moved to the Brantford area in Upper Canada. Many of his descendants, and other First Nations people, live on the nearby Six Nations of the Grand River reserve south of Brantford; it is the most populous reserve in Canada. Brantford is known as the "Telephone City" as the city's famous resident, Alexander Graham Bell, invented the first telephone at his father's homest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Reed (minors)
William Reed may refer to: * William Reed (athlete) (born 1970), American sprinter * William Reed (author) (1830–1920), author of ''The Phantom of the Poles'' (1906) * William Reed (British colonial official) (c. 1670–1728), Acting Governor of North-Carolina (1722–1724) * William Reed (composer) (1910–2002), English composer * William Reed (musician) (1859–1945), Canadian organist, conductor, and composer * William Reed (politician) (1776–1837), United States Representative from Massachusetts * William Reed (publisher) (1830–1920), English trade magazine publisher; founder of William Reed Ltd * William Reed (RAF officer) (1896–?), British World War I flying ace * William B. Reed (politician) (1833–1909), mayor of South Norwalk (1891–1893), oyster grower and shipper * William Bradford Reed (1806–1876), American politician and journalist * William Henry Reed (1876–1942), violinist and author of ''Elgar as I Knew Him'' * William L. Reed (politician) (1866- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kid Mohler
Ernest Follette "Kid" Mohler (December 13, 1870 – November 4, 1961) was an American baseball player and coach. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for three games with the Washington Senators (1891–1899), Washington Senators of the National League (baseball), National League in 1894. His minor league career stretched from 1890 through 1914, mostly in the Pacific Coast League (PCL), where he played 1,600 games and notched over 1,400 hits. Mohler served as the head baseball coach at the United States Naval Academy from 1929 to 1932, compiling a record of 36–25–1. He was elected to the Pacific Coast League Hall of Fame as part of the 2012 class. Mohler's son, Orville Mohler, starred in college football and college baseball at the University of Southern California (USC) and briefly played professional baseball in PCL. The younger Mohler was killed in a military plane crash in 1949. Mohler died on November 4, 1961, in Los Angeles. He was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Cooper (baseball)
Thomas, Tom, or Tommy Cooper may refer to: Arts and entertainment *Thomas Apthorpe Cooper (1776–1849), English actor *Thomas Sidney Cooper (1803–1902), English painter *Thomas Cooper (poet) (1805–1892), English poet and Chartist * Thomas Cooper de Leon (1839–1914), American journalist, author and playwright *Tommy Cooper (1921–1984), British magician and comedian *Thomas Joshua Cooper (born 1946), American landscape photographer Military * Thomas Cooper (pilot) (1833–1906), American maritime pilot *Thomas Haller Cooper (1919–1987), member of the British Free Corps and convicted traitor *Thomas E. Cooper (born 1943), U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Acquisition), 1983–87 Politics * Thomas Cooper (Parliamentarian) (died 1659), colonel in the Parliamentary Army and politician *Thomas Cooper (American politician, born 1759) (1759–1840), American educationalist and political philosopher, commonly associated with South Carolina *Thomas Cooper (American politic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bunk Congalton
William Millar "Bunk" Congalton (January 24, 1875 – August 19, 1937) was a Canadians, Canadian right fielder in Major League Baseball. A native of Guelph, Ontario, he stood 5'11" and weighed 190 lbs. Congalton was a minor league star who twice led the Western Association in batting average (baseball), batting average. He reached the major leagues at the age of 27 with the Chicago Cubs, Chicago Orphans, then was back in the big leagues three years later with the Cleveland Indians, Cleveland Naps. He was fourth in the American League in 1906 with a .320 batting average, and also ranked in the league's top ten for on-base percentage (.361), slugging percentage (.396), and home runs (3). Playing for Cleveland and the Boston Red Sox, Boston Americans in 1907, his .282 average was tenth-best in the league. Congalton died at the age of 62 in Cleveland, Ohio after suffering a myocardial infarction, heart attack the previous Sunday at a Cleveland Indians game. He was interred at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Knight (baseball)
Jonah William "Quiet Joe" Knight (September 28, 1859 – October 16, 1938) was a professional baseball player. He played two seasons in Major League Baseball for the Philadelphia Quakers (1884) and Cincinnati Reds (1890), primarily as a left fielder. A native of Port Stanley, Ontario, Knight came up to the big leagues as a pitcher in 1884. In six starts for the Quakers he won 2, lost 4, and had an earned run average of 5.47 in 51 innings. He struck out 8 and walked 21. Six years later he returned to the major leagues, this time as an outfielder. As the everyday left fielder for the 77–55 Reds, he finished sixth in the National League with a .312 batting average, hit 4 home runs, and drove in 67 runs. He also ranked sixth in the league with 26 doubles. His final major league appearance was October 3, 1890 at the age of 31. His two-season career statistics include 133 games played, a .309 batting average (156-for-505), 4 home runs, 69 RBI, 69 runs scored, an on-base percenta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie Snyder (baseball)
Leslie Crocker Snyder (born 1942) is an American lawyer and former judge, most notable for her challenge of Robert Morgenthau in the Democratic Party primary for the Manhattan District Attorney election in 2005. Morgenthau did not seek re-election in 2009. Snyder ran again. Once again she finished second, this time losing to Cyrus Vance, Jr. by a wide margin. Early life and education Crocker was born in New York to an academic family, the daughter of Billie (née Danziger) - and Lester Crocker - a professor and also a Dean at Case-Western Reserve University. She attended the Bryn Mawr School. Snyder graduated from Radcliffe College (now Harvard) on scholarship in 1962 and completed a certificate from the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration in 1963. She then attended the Case Western Reserve University School of Law - where her father was dean of the graduate school. Snyder was admitted to the Ohio State Bar in 1966 and the New York State Bar in 1967. Legal ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woodstock, Ontario
Woodstock is a city in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. The city has a population of 40,902 according to the 2016 Canadian census. Woodstock is the seat of Oxford County, at the head of the non-navigable Thames River, approximately 128 km from Toronto, and 43 km from London, Ontario. The city is known as the Dairy Capital of Canada and promotes itself as "The Friendly City". Woodstock was first settled by European-colonists and United Empire Loyalists in 1800, starting with Zacharias Burtch and Levi Luddington, and was incorporated as a town in 1851. Since then, Woodstock has maintained steady growth, and is now a small city in Southwestern Ontario. As a small historic city, Woodstock is one of the few cities in Ontario to still have all of its original administration buildings. The city has developed a strong economic focus towards manufacturing and tourism. It is also a market city for the surrounding agricultural industry. Woodstock is home to a campus of Fanshawe Coll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
