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Olean Oilers
The Olean Oilers were a minor league baseball team located in Olean, New York which played primarily in the New York–Pennsylvania League from 1939 to 1966, with a hiatus in 1960. Starting in 1959, the team shared nicknames with its major league affiliates. A 2012 collegiate team with the same name played in the New York Collegiate Baseball League for several years. Both teams played their home games at Bradner Stadium. History Professional team The team played in the New York–Pennsylvania League from 1939 to 1951 and from 1955 to 1958. The league was known as the Pennsylvania–Ontario–New York League from 1939 to 1956. Their inaugural home game on 11 May 1939 was played in front of 3,300 spectators. The Oilers were affiliated with the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1939 to 1948, the St. Louis Browns in 1949, and the Philadelphia Phillies from 1956 to 1958. The Oilers played their home games at Bradner Stadium. The Oilers' president, Josephine Ross, was the only female presiden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Genovese
Frank Charles "Chick" Genovese (November 23, 1914 – February 12, 1981) was an Americans, American professional baseball baseball player, player, manager (baseball), manager and scout (sport), scout. Genovese was a Minor League Baseball, minor league outfielder standing tall who threw right-handed and batted left-handed. He managed six different teams within the History of the New York Giants (NL), New York Giants farm system from 1949 to 1956, and worked as a scout for many years. While managing the Giants' Class B farm team in Trenton Giants, Trenton in 1950, Genovese became the first professional manager of Willie Mays, and taught Mays his famous Glossary of baseball (B)#Basket catch, basket catch. Genovese was also credited with scouting and signing players including Felipe Alou, Felipe, Matty Alou, Matty, and Jesús Alou, Juan Marichal, Tito Fuentes, and Manny Mota. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York–Penn League
The New York–Penn League (NYPL) was a Minor League Baseball league that operated in the northeastern United States from 1939 to 2020. Classified as a Class A Short Season league, its season started in June, after major-league teams signed their amateur draft picks to professional contracts, and ended in early September. In 2019, its last season of operation, the NYPL had 14 teams from eight different states. In addition to New York and Pennsylvania, from which the league drew its name, the NYPL also had clubs in Maryland, Massachusetts, Ohio, Vermont, West Virginia, and Connecticut. The Brooklyn Cyclones were the last NYPL champions, defeating the Lowell Spinners, two games to one, in 2019. The Oneonta Yankees/Tigers won 12 championships, the most among all teams in the league, followed by the Auburn Mets/Twins/Phillies/Doubledays (8) and Jamestown Falcons/Expos (7). History The New York–Penn League was founded in 1939 as the Pennsylvania–Ontario–New York League, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greg Mulleavy
Gregory Thomas "Moe" Mulleavy (September 25, 1905 – February 1, 1980) was an American professional baseball shortstop, manager, coach, and scout. Born in Detroit, Michigan, his father, Thomas, was a machinist in a Detroit automobile factory, having moved from Canada to the United States in 1903 with his wife, Bertha (Freytag) Mulleavy. Gregory was born on September 25, 1905, their elder child. A daughter, Eleanor, was later born. He attended the University of Detroit Jesuit High School and Academy prior to beginning his baseball career in 1927. Playing career Mulleavy threw and batted right-handed, stood tall and weighed . He played 79 games in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Chicago White Sox and Boston Red Sox. His 76 big-league hits included 14 doubles and five triples. Mulleavy's minor league playing career lasted 20 seasons (1927–46), the last six as a playing manager. Coach and manager He joined the Brooklyn Dodgers organization in 1946 and became a longtime ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Holland
Harold Holland (May 12, 1885 – September 27, 1974) was a British theatre and silent film actor and playwright. He was born in Bloomsbury, London. He played Dr. Rogers in the 1913 film '' Riches and Rogues'', and took the lead role of Dr. Thomas "Tom" Flynn in the 1914 comedy '' The Lucky Vest''. After having worked on Charlie Chaplin films including ''Shanghaied'' and '' The Bank'' in 1915, he was hired by the Morosco Photoplay Company in 1916 as it expanded. Before and after working in silent films, Holland had a theatre career in the United Kingdom. His West End roles include ''Bella Donna'', ''One-Act Plays'', and ''Treasure Island''. He also performed as the title character in the UK tour of ''Sherlock Holmes'' in 1919. As a playwright, he wrote the 1918 war play ''True Values'', a propaganda piece encouraging women at home to work and invest in the war, and 1927 play ''The Big Drum'', an early self-referential play set in a fictional theatre. Other works written by Holl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benny Zientara
Benedict Joseph Zientara (February 14, 1918 – April 16, 1985) was a professional baseball infielder. He played all or part of four seasons in Major League Baseball (1941, 1946–48), playing mainly as a second baseman for the Cincinnati Reds. Listed at , 165 lb., he batted and threw right-handed. A native of Chicago, Zientara was one of many major leaguers who saw his baseball career interrupted by a military stint during World War II. In parts of four seasons, he was a .254 hitter (230-for-906) with two home runs and 49 RBI in 278 games, including 106 runs, 29 doubles, five triples, and five stolen bases. Zientara died in 1985 in Lake Elsinore, California, at the age of 67. He was buried at the Riverside National Cemetery in Riverside, California Riverside is a city in and the county seat of Riverside County, California, United States, in the Inland Empire metropolitan area. It is named for its location beside the Santa Ana River. It is the most populou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Owens (baseball)
Paul Francis Owens (February 7, 1924 – December 26, 2003), nicknamed "The Pope", was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) front office executive, manager, and scout. Earlier, during his playing career, Owens was a first baseman and catcher, and then a manager, in minor league baseball. Philadelphia Phillies Owens' entire Major League career was spent with the Philadelphia Phillies. He was the general manager and principal architect of the 1980 Phillies, who won the third National League (NL) pennant and became the first World Series champion in franchise history — breaking a 97-year streak of futility dating to the team's founding in . Owens was general manager of the Phillies from June 3, , through the end of , and twice (1972; 1983–1984) added the title of field manager to his job description. In , he took the managerial reins of the Phillies in mid-season and led them to their fourth pennant, but lost to the Baltimore Orioles in the 1983 World Series. Playing career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austin Knickerbocker
Austin Jay Knickerbocker (October 15, 1918 – February 18, 1997) was an American professional baseball player whose 11-season career included 21 Major League games played for the Philadelphia Athletics during the season. An outfielder, he threw and batted right-handed, stood tall and weighed . Career Born in Bangall, a hamlet of Stanford, New York, Knickerbocker attended Duke UniversityPietrusza, David, and Thorn, John, ''Baseball's Canadian–American League.'' Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co., 1990, p. 75 and began his professional career at age 21 in 1940. In 1941, he batted .406 to lead the Class C Canadian–American League in hitting; he also paced the circuit in hits (202) and runs batted in (135), as a member of the Oneonta Indians.Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, eds., ''The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball''. 3rd edition. Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 2007, p. 380 (However, Leon Riley of the Rome Colonels led the league in home runs tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Lance
Walter Lantz (April 27, 1899 – March 22, 1994) was an American cartoonist, animator, producer and director best known for founding Walter Lantz Productions and creating Woody Woodpecker. Biography Early years and start in animation Lantz was born in New Rochelle, New York, to Italian immigrant parents Francesco Paolo Lantz (formerly Lanza) and Maria Jarvis (changed to Jarvis to avoid prejudice) from Calitri. According to Joe Adamson's biography ''The Walter Lantz Story'', Lantz's father was given his new surname by an immigration official who anglicized it. Walter Lantz was always interested in art, completing a mail-order drawing class at age 12. He was inspired when he saw Winsor McCay's animated short "Gertie the Dinosaur". While working as an auto mechanic, Lantz got his first break. Wealthy customer Fred Kafka liked his drawings on the garage's bulletin board and financed Lantz's studies at the Art Students League of New York. Kafka also helped him land a job as a c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Davis (minor League Manager)
William Grenville Davis, (July 30, 1929 – August 8, 2021) was a Canadian politician who served as the 18th premier of Ontario from 1971 to 1985. Behind Oliver Mowat, Davis was the second-longest serving premier of Ontario. Born in Toronto, Davis was a lawyer before being elected as a Progressive Conservative member of provincial Parliament for Peel in the 1959 Ontario general election, 1959 provincial election. He was a backbencher in the Conservative caucus until 1962, when he was appointed Ministry of Education (Ontario), minister of education under John Robarts. During this period, Davis created the community college system and the educational television network now known as TVO. In 1971, he succeeded Robarts as the premier of Ontario and held the position until resigning in 1985. He led the Progressive Conservatives to victory in four consecutive elections, winning two majority governments and two minority governments. As premier, Davis was responsible for the cance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bunny Mick
Rabbits, also known as bunnies or bunny rabbits, are small mammals in the family Leporidae (which also contains the hares) of the order Lagomorpha (which also contains the pikas). ''Oryctolagus cuniculus'' includes the European rabbit species and its descendants, the world's 305 breeds of domestic rabbit. ''Sylvilagus'' includes 13 wild rabbit species, among them the seven types of cottontail. The European rabbit, which has been introduced on every continent except Antarctica, is familiar throughout the world as a wild prey animal and as a domesticated form of livestock and pet. With its widespread effect on ecologies and cultures, the rabbit is, in many areas of the world, a part of daily life—as food, clothing, a companion, and a source of artistic inspiration. Although once considered rodents, lagomorphs like rabbits have been discovered to have diverged separately and earlier than their rodent cousins and have a number of traits rodents lack, like two extra incisors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orval Cott
Orval may refer to: * Orval, Cher, a commune of the Cher ''département'' in France * Orval, Manche, a former commune of the Manche ''département'', in France (now merged with Montchaton into Orval-sur-Sienne) * Orval-sur-Sienne, a commune of the Manche ''département'', in France * Orval, a community within the French commune of Montigny-Lengrain * Orval, Rùm, a hill on Rùm, Highland, Scotland * Orval Abbey - Abbaye Notre-Dame d'Orval, a Trappist monastery in Wallonia, Belgium ** Orval Brewery, a brewery located in the Trappist Abbaye Notre-Dame d'Orval *** Orval, a beer produced by the brewery in the Trappist Abbaye Notre-Dame d'Orval * Orval H. Caldwell (February 15, 1895–February 18, 1972), Chicago-area painter and one-time president of the Art Institute of Chicago * Orval Faubus, governor of the U.S. state of Arkansas 1955-1967 * Orval Grove, an American baseball player See also *Orville (other) Orville may refer to: People * Orville (given name), a list ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Len Schulte
Leonard Bernard Schulte, born ''Schultehenrich'' (December 5, 1916 – May 6, 1986), was an American professional baseball player. An infielder, his playing career lasted for 13 seasons (1937–1949), including 124 games over all or parts of three seasons (1944–1946) in the Major Leagues for the St. Louis Browns. The native of St. Charles, Missouri, attended the University of Iowa. He threw and batted right-handed, stood tall and weighed . All but five games in Schulte's Major League career occurred during the season. Spending the entire season on the St. Louis roster, he appeared in 119 games, 71 as a third baseman, and he batted .247 in 430 at bats. Altogether, he collected 108 hits with the Browns, including 16 doubles and one triple. He was a manager in minor league baseball in 1941, before his MLB career began, and then from 1950–1952 in the Browns' and Cincinnati Reds' organizations. An older brother, Ham, also an infielder, played one season in the majors with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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