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Holcomb Park
The Des Moines Boosters were a Western League minor league baseball team based in Des Moines, Iowa, United States that existed from 1908 to 1924. Des Moines fielded teams in the Western League from 1900-1937 and 1947–1958. Hall of Famers George Davis and Red Faber played for the Des Moines Boosters. History The Des Moines Boosters won two Western League championships - their first in 1915 under manager Frank Isbell and their second in 1917 under Jack Coffey. Des Moines had first fielded a Western League team in 1900, playing under several monikers before being called the "Boosters." At the time, the league was a Class A league, the highest level of minor league play. The teams that directly preceded the Des Moines Boosters in Western League play were the Des Moines Hawkeyes (1900–1901), Des Moines Midgets (1902), Des Moines Undertakers (1903), Des Moines Prohibitionists (1904), Des Moines Underwriters (1905), Des Moines Champions (1906) and Des Moines Champs (1907) bef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Class A (baseball)
Class A, also known as Single-A and sometimes as Low-A, is the fourth-highest level of play in Minor League Baseball in the United States, below Triple-A, Double-A, and High-A. There are 30 teams classified at the Single-A level, one for each team in Major League Baseball (MLB), organized into three leagues: the California League, Carolina League, and Florida State League. History Class A was originally the highest level of Minor League Baseball, beginning with the earliest classifications, established circa 1890. Teams within leagues at this level had their players' contracts protected and the players were subject to reserve clauses. When the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues – the formal name of Minor League Baseball – was founded in 1901, Class A remained the highest level, restricted to leagues with cities that had an aggregate population of over a million people. Entering the 1902 season, the only Class A leagues were the Eastern League and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eli Cates
Eli Eldo Cates (January 26, 1877 – May 29, 1964) was a Major League Baseball pitcher. Cates played for the Washington Senators in . On August 10, 1902, Cates pitched a notable minor league baseball no-hitter. On that date, the Nevada Lunatics and Jefferson City Convicts of the Class D Missouri Valley League played a game that resulted in a double no-hitter In baseball, a no-hitter is a game in which a team was not able to record a hit. Major League Baseball (MLB) officially defines a no-hitter as a completed game in which a team that batted in at least nine innings recorded no hits. A pitcher wh .... Both Jefferson City's Jim Courtwright and Nevada's Eli Cates pitched no–hit games. Nevada won the game 1–0. A double no-hitter has happened just 10 times in baseball history, all at the minor league level. References External linksBaseball Reference.com page 1877 births 1964 deaths Washington Senators (1901–1960) players Baseball players from Indiana Minor le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gene Ford
Eugene Wyman Ford (April 16, 1881 – August 23, 1973) was a Canadian professional baseball player. He was a right-handed pitcher who appeared in Major League Baseball (MLB) during 1905 with the Detroit Tigers. With Detroit, he compiled a 0–1 record, with a 5.66 earned run average In baseball statistics, earned run average (ERA) is the average of earned runs allowed by a pitcher per nine innings pitched (i.e. the traditional length of a game). It is determined by dividing the number of earned runs allowed by the number ..., and 20 strikeouts in 35 innings pitched. Ford also played professionally in several Minor League Baseball, minor leagues between 1902 and 1908. His brother Russ Ford was also a major-league pitcher. External links 1881 births 1973 deaths Baseball people from Nova Scotia Birmingham Barons players Canadian expatriate baseball players in the United States Des Moines Boosters players Detroit Tigers players Indianapolis Indians players Major League ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Flaskamper
Raymond Harold Flaskamper (October 31, 1901 - February 3, 1978) was a Major League Baseball shortstop. He played in 26 games for the Chicago White Sox in . In March 1929 Flaskamper was sold by the San Antonio Bears to the Dallas Steers The Dallas Rangers were a high-level minor league baseball team located in Dallas, Texas from 1958 to 1964. The team was known by the Dallas Rangers name in 1958, 1959, and 1964 and as the Dallas-Fort Worth Rangers from 1960 to 1963. It played in ... for $7,500. References External links Major League Baseball shortstops Chicago White Sox players Miami Indians players Independence Producers players Vernon Tigers players San Francisco Seals (baseball) players Des Moines Boosters players Lincoln Links players San Antonio Bears players Dallas Steers players Memphis Chickasaws players San Antonio Indians players Oklahoma City Indians players Longview Cannibals players Henderson Oilers players Baseball players from Missouri 1901 b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Fetzer
William McKinnon Fetzer (June 24, 1884 – May 3, 1959) was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach. He served as the head football coach at Davidson College (1915–1918), North Carolina State University (1919–1920), and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1921–1925), compiling a career college football record of 61–28–7. His brother, Bob Fetzer, served as co-head football coach at the University of North Carolina and later became the first and longest serving Athletics Director for the university. Fetzer also was the head basketball coach at Davidson for two seasons, from 1916 to 1918, tallying a mark of 18–11. In addition, he coached baseball at Davidson (1915–1919), NC State (1920), and North Carolina (1921–1925), amassing a career college baseball record of 128–75–5. Baseball career Fetzer was also a professional baseball player. He made his Major League Baseball (MLB) debut on September 4, 1906 as a pinch hitter for the Philadelphia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernie Duffy
Bernard Allen Duffy (August 18, 1893 – February 9, 1962) was a right handed Major League Baseball pitcher who played with the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1912 to 1919. Also known as Barney Duffy and Dan Duffy, Barney played alongside famous Pittsburgh Pirate Honus Wagner (known as the Flying Dutchman). The Oklahoma native began his baseball career in 1910 in Helena, Montana.He was purchased by the Pirates in the fall of 1913. He then was sent to St. Joe in the Western League where he played during 1914. Recalled that fall, he was turned over to Youngstown in the Central league, remaining there until the club disbanded. In 1916 he was with Grand Rapids and then sold to Wheeling. The pitcher was 5'11" and weighed around 180 lbs. In 1913 Barney played for the Great Falls Electrics. The September 5, 1913 Salt Lake Tribune reports that Barney "started under a handicap. He was unknown, and there were those who predicted his early finish. The things that were said to him would have taken th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Douglas (baseball)
Phillip Brooks Douglas (June 17, 1890 – August 1, 1952) was an American baseball player. He was known as "Shufflin' Phil", most likely because of his slow gait from the bullpen to the mound. Douglas originally signed with the Chicago White Sox in 1912, but soon landed with the Cincinnati Reds. In 1915, he was traded to the Brooklyn Dodgers, then to the Chicago Cubs. Douglas' short stints with these and future teams stemmed from their frustrations with his well-documented alcoholism, about which a contemporary journalist wrote, "Drinking was not a habit with Douglas—it was a disease." His throwing error on a sacrifice bunt in Game 4 of the 1918 World Series gave the Boston Red Sox a 3–2 victory over the Cubs. In 1919, he was signed by the New York Giants. John McGraw had some luck in keeping Douglas' drinking under control. In 1920, Douglas had a 14–10 record and a 2.71 ERA. Following the season, the spitball was banned but 17 players, including Douglas, were allowed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Dolan (baseball)
Joseph Dolan (February 24, 1873 – March 24, 1938) was an American professional baseball player who played 323 games over a five-season major league career between 1896 and 1901. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland and died at the age of 65 in Omaha, Nebraska Omaha ( ) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of Douglas County. Omaha is in the Midwestern United States on the Missouri River, about north of the mouth of the Platte River. The nation's 39th-largest cit .... Career Dolan played a total of 18 seasons including over 1,300 games in the minor leagues mostly at the Class A and D levels. Since Major League teams didn't begin affiliating league-wide with minor leagues teams until 1932, Dolan signed various contracts as a free agent with the Louisville Colonels (1896–97), Philadelphia Phillies (1899-1901), and Philadelphia Athletics (1901). Although he'd play in 11 different minor league cities, he spent the bulk of his time, seven s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Dexter
Charles Dana Dexter (June 15, 1876 – June 9, 1934) was a Major League Baseball outfielder from 1896 to 1903. Professional career Dexter's career in baseball began in 1889 with the Evansville Cooks, a semiprofessional ball club. He remained with them until 1894 when he made the decision to attend the University of the South. He also played for the Louisville Colonels, Boston Braves, and Chicago Cubs organizations. Iroquois Theatre fire On December 30, 1903, Charlie Dexter and fellow player John Franklin Houseman were in a box watching a show at the Iroquois Theatre in Chicago when the Iroquois Theatre fire broke out; they were credited with breaking down a locked door and rescuing a number of people. The stabbing of Quait Bateman In 1905, he reportedly stabbed Milwaukee Brewers first baseman Quait Bateman in the chest while he was drunk. Dexter was taken to jail. Bateman decided to not press charges as he believed it was an accident and Dexter was released the next morning. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Dalton (baseball)
Tolbert Percy Dalton (July 3, 1885 – February 17, 1950) was a professional baseball player who played outfield in Major League Baseball from 1910 to 1916. He attended the University of Virginia. He mysteriously vanished on July 4, 1948, from Catonsville, Maryland, while walking to a church service. In March 2012, it was discovered that Dalton had died of a heart ailment in a Pittsburgh hospital in 1950. In 345 games over four major league seasons, Dalton posted a .286 batting average (333-for-1163) with 167 runs, 39 doubles, 15 triples, 4 home runs, 112 RBIs, 52 stolen bases, 129 bases on balls, .362 on-base percentage and .356 slugging percentage. He finished his career with a .966 fielding percentage In baseball statistics, fielding percentage, also known as fielding average, is a measure that reflects the percentage of times a defensive player properly handles a batted or thrown ball. It is calculated by the sum of putouts and assists, div ... playing at all three outf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Cullop (outfielder)
Henry Nicholas Cullop (October 16, 1900 – December 8, 1978) was an American outfielder in Major League Baseball during the 1920s and 1930s. Cullop was better known, however, as a feared batsman in minor league baseball and as a longtime manager at the minor league level. He is the all-time minor league RBI king. Cullop was nicknamed "Tomato Face" because his face turned bright red whenever he got angry. He is not related to pitcher Nick Cullop. Biography Born in Weldon Spring, Missouri, as Heinrich Nicholas Kolop, Cullop batted and threw right-handed, stood tall and weighed . He began his professional career as a pitcher, second baseman and outfielder for the Madison Greys of the Class D South Dakota League in , hitting .341 in 66 games. Although he was primarily an outfielder, Cullop continued to pitch sporadically through , compiling a 49–50 record in 140 minor league games. However, Cullop made his name as a batter. In , he swatted 40 home runs and compiled 155 runs b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Corriden
John Michael "Red" Corriden (September 4, 1887 – September 28, 1959) was a player, coach, manager and scout in American Major League Baseball. A shortstop and third baseman in his playing days, Corriden appeared in 223 big league games with the St. Louis Browns (1910), Detroit Tigers (1912) and Chicago Cubs (1913–15), batting .205 with 131 hits. He was born in Logansport, Indiana. Involvement in 1910 controversy He had an important role in the 1910 Chalmers Award batting title controversy. When playing third base, he was ordered by catcher Jack O'Connor to play back, giving Nap Lajoie a good chance to beat out bunts for hits that could help win the award for Lajoie instead of the widely hated Ty Cobb, who had been leading in the batting average race prior to the last-day's doubleheader, .385 to .376. Minor league manager, MLB coach After his playing career ended, Corriden coached and managed in the minor leagues during the 1920s. In 1932 he was named a coach with the Cubs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
