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Kankakee Kanks
The Kankakee Kanks were a minor league baseball team located in Kankakee, Illinois. Kankakee teams played a member of the Class D level Northern Association in 1910, playing as the Kankakee "Kays" and the Illinois-Missouri League from 1912 to 1914. The Kankakee teams hosted home minor league games on the grounds of the Kankakee State Hospital. Baseball Hall of Fame inductee Casey Stengel played for the 1910 Kankakee Kays, beginning his first professional season. History Northern Association 1910 Minor league baseball began in Kankakee, Illinois in 1910, when the Kankakee Kays team became charter members of the Class D level Northern Association. The Clinton Teddies, Decatur Commodores, Elgin Kittens, Freeport Pretzels, Jacksonville Jacks, Joliet Jolly-ites and Muscatine Pearl Finders teams Joined Kankakee as the charter members of the eight–team league, which began play on May 10,1910. In their first season of minor league play, the Kankakee franchise folded during the seas ...
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Canton Highlanders
Canton may refer to: Administrative division terminology * Canton (administrative division), territorial/administrative division in some countries, notably Switzerland * Township (Canada), known as ''canton'' in Canadian French Arts and entertainment * Canton (band), an Italian synth pop group * "Canton" (song) by Japan * Canton, a fictional town in "Jaynestown", an episode of ''Firefly'' Design * Canton (building), a corner pilaster * Canton (flag), an emblem placed in the top left quarter of a flag * Canton (heraldry), a square or other charge (symbol) occupying the upper left corner of a coat of arms * Canton porcelain, Chinese ceramic ware People * Canton (surname), and list of people with the surname * Canton Jones, American Christian music/hip-hop artist Places Canada * Canton, New Brunswick, a community in Drummond Parish, New Brunswick * Canton, Ontario China * Guangdong (Canton Province), province in southern China * Guangzhou (Canton City), capital ...
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''This is for players of the Kankakee Kanks minor league baseball team, that played in the Illinois–Missouri League The Illinois–Missouri League was an American minor league baseball league. The Class D (baseball), Class D league began operations in 1908, and continued through 1914 with teams located in Illinois and Missouri. The Lincoln Abes won consecutive ... from 1912–1914.'' Minor league baseball players by team {{CatAutoTOC ...
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Bob Wright (baseball)
Robert Cassius Wright (December 13, 1891 – July 30, 1993) was an American right-handed professional baseball pitcher. He played two games in Major League Baseball for the Chicago Cubs in 1915. He was born in Decatur County, Indiana and died at the age of 101 in Carmichael, California. See also *List of centenarians (Major League Baseball players) The following contains a list of Major League Baseball players who lived to the age of 100. For other baseball players and others associated with baseball who were centenarians, see List of centenarians (sportspeople). For other lists of centenaria ... Notes References Major League Baseball pitchers Chicago Cubs players Kankakee Kanks players Memphis Chickasaws players Toledo Mud Hens players Baseball players from Indiana American centenarians Men centenarians People from Decatur County, Indiana 1891 births 1993 deaths Virginia Ore Diggers players {{US-baseball-pitcher-1890s-stub ...
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Bobby Veach
Robert Hayes Veach (June 29, 1888 – August 7, 1945) was an American baseball player from 1910 to 1930 including 14 seasons in the major leagues. He was the starting left fielder for the Detroit Tigers from 1912 to 1923 and also played for the Boston Red Sox (1924–1925), New York Yankees (1925) and Washington Senators (1925). Veach hit for both power and average. He compiled a .310 career batting average and finished second to Ty Cobb for the 1919 American League batting title with a .355 average. He also led the American League in runs batted in (RBIs) three times (1915, 1917, and 1918) and was among the league leaders 10 times. Nobody in baseball had as many RBIs or extra base hits as Veach from 1915 to 1922. He is also the only player born in the state of Kentucky to have collected 2,000 hits and 1,000 RBIs. Veach was also among the best defensive outfielders of his era, regularly ranking among the league leaders in putouts, range factor, and fielding percentage. Despite ...
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Elmer Jacobs
William Elmer Jacobs (August 10, 1892 – February 10, 1958) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball from 1914 to 1927. He played for the Philadelphia Phillies, Pittsburgh Pirates, St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago Cubs, and Chicago White Sox. Jacobs' key pitch was the curveball In baseball and softball, the curveball is a type of pitch thrown with a characteristic grip and hand movement that imparts forward spin to the ball, causing it to dive as it approaches the plate. Varieties of curveball include the 12–6 curve .... In 1926, he was suspended for 10 days after being caught with foreign substances on the mound.James, Bill and Neyer, Rob. The Neyer/James Guide to Pitchers' (Simon & Schuster, 2004), p. 254. References External links 1892 births 1958 deaths Major League Baseball pitchers Philadelphia Phillies players Pittsburgh Pirates players St. Louis Cardinals players Chicago Cubs players Chicago White Sox players Baseball players from Missouri Clinton Cham ...
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George Hale (baseball)
George Wagner Hale (August 3, 1894 – November 1, 1945) was a professional baseball player. Nicknamed "Ducky", he was a catcher over parts of four seasons (1914, 1916–18) with the St. Louis Browns. For his career, he compiled a .175 batting average in 103 at-bats, with nine runs batted in. He was born in Dexter, Kansas and died in Wichita, Kansas Wichita ( ) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kansas and the county seat of Sedgwick County, Kansas, Sedgwick County. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population of the city was 397,532. The Wichita metro area had ... at the age of 51. External links 1894 births 1945 deaths St. Louis Browns players Major League Baseball catchers Baseball players from Kansas Birmingham Barons players Rochester Hustlers players Omaha Rourkes players Omaha Buffaloes players Oklahoma City Indians players Terre Haute Tots players Beaumont Exporters players Kankakee Kanks players {{US-baseball-catch ...
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Casey Stengel - New York Yankees - 1957
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Leland Giants
The Leland Giants, originally the Chicago Union Giants, were a Negro league baseball team that competed independently during the first decade of the 20th century. The team was formed via a merge of the Chicago Unions and the Chicago Columbia Giants in 1901, and then split in 1910 to form the Chicago Giants and what would become known as the Chicago American Giants. The team was named after its owner and manager, Frank Leland. History In a 1910 article, former shortstop Jimmy Smith described the 1905 season by saying the team "made a great record of 43 straight wins" between May 19 and July 16, 1905, when they were finally beat by the Spalding team on their home grounds in Chicago. Bruce Petway took over catching duties in 1906 and the talent improved dramatically in 1907 as Rube Foster (HOF), Pete Hill (HOF), "Big Bill" Gatewood, "Mike" Moore and four other players came from East Coast teams. The 1907 team compiled a 110–10 record, including 48 straight wins. The Giant ...
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Kankakee State Hospital
Samuel H. Shapiro Developmental Center, formerly named the Kankakee State Hospital, is a developmental center in Kankakee, Illinois, on the banks of the Kankakee River. History In 1877, the General Assembly established the Illinois Eastern Hospital for the Insane and empowered the Governor to appoint a seven-member commission to select a site within northeastern Illinois on which to locate the institution. After selection of a site in Kankakee, three trustees were appointed by the Governor to supervise planning and construction, choose a superintendent, and operate the hospital, subject to inspection by the Board of State Commissioners of Public Charities. The hospital opened on September 4, 1879, and began to operate a training school for nurses in 1886. When the Board of State Commissioners of Public Charities was abolished in 1909, the institute was reorganized and renamed Kankakee State Hospital, effective January 1, 1910. In 1917, the Department of Public Welfare assumed res ...
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Kankakee Hospital
Kankakee may refer to Places * Kankakee, Illinois * Kankakee, Indiana * Kankakee Community College * Kankakee County, Illinois * Kankakee River State Park * Kankakee State Hospital * Kankakee Valley High School Geology * Kankakee Arch * Kankakee Outwash Plain * Kankakee River * Kankakee Torrent * Lake Kankakee Others *Kankakee, Beaverville and Southern Railroad *USCGC Kankakee United States Coast Guard Cutter is the term used by the U.S. Coast Guard for its commissioned vessels. They are or greater in length and have a permanently assigned crew with accommodations aboard. They carry the ship prefix USCGC. History ...
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Streator Speedboys
Streator is a city in LaSalle and Livingston counties in the U.S. state of Illinois. The city is situated on the Vermilion River approximately southwest of Chicago in the prairie and farm land of north-central Illinois. As of the 2020 census, the population of Streator was 12,500. History Although settlements had occasionally existed in the area, they were not permanent. In 1824, surveyors for the Illinois and Michigan Canal which would extend from Chicago's Bridgeport neighborhood to the Illinois River, a tributary of the Mississippi River, arrived in this area of the Vermillion River, followed by homesteaders by the 1830s. In 1861, miner John O'Neill established a trading post called "Hardscrabble" (ironically an early name for the Bridgeport neighborhood), supposedly because he watched loaded animals struggle up the river's banks. Another name for the new settlement was "Unionville". Streator received its current name to honor Worthy S. Streator, an Ohio industrialist ...
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