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Temple Eagles
The Temple Eagles were a minor league baseball team based in Temple, Texas. From 1949 to 1954, the Eagles played exclusively as members of the Class B level Big State League, winning the 1952 league pennant and qualifying for the playoffs in three seasons. Temple hosted home minor league games at the American Legion Park History Minor league baseball began in Temple, Texas with the 1905 Temple Boll Weevils, who played as members of the Class C level Texas League. Several other minor league teams later played in Temple, preceding the Temple Eagles, including the "Temple Tigers" and "Temple Governors", who played as members of the Class D level Middle Texas League in 1914 and 1915, the Temple Governors who continued play in the Central Texas League in 1916 and 1917 and the "Temple Surgeons" who played in the Texas Association between 1924 and 1926. In 1949, minor league baseball returned, as Temple "Eagles" franchise was formed and joined the Class B level Big State League. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waco Pirates
The Waco Pirates were a minor league baseball team based in Waco, Texas who played in the Big State League from 1947–1956. They were an affiliate of the Pittsburgh Pirates franchise. The team actually began as the Waco Dons in 1947 but changed their name when they became a Pirates affiliate. The team briefly moved to Longview, Texas on May 22, 1953 as a result of damage caused by the 1953 Waco tornado outbreak. The team finished out the season as the Longview Pirates before returning to Waco the following season. As the Longview Pirates, the team featured numerous Major League Baseball players: Brandy Davis, Bob Garber, Fred Green (baseball), Fred Green, Dick Hall (baseball), Dick Hall and Sonny Senerchia. The 1954 Pirates were recognized as one of the The National Baseball Association's top 100 minor league teams, 100 greatest minor league teams of all time. References External linksBaseball-Reference Baseball teams established in 1947 Pittsburgh Pirates minor league affil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Earl Reid
Earl Percy Reid (June 8, 1913 – May 11, 1984) was a professional baseball player. He was a right-handed pitcher for one season (1946) with the Boston Braves. For his career, he compiled a 1-0 record, with a 3.00 earned run average, and two strikeouts in three innings pitched. Reid was born in Bangor, Alabama and later died in Cullman, Alabama Cullman is the largest city and county seat of Cullman County, Alabama, United States. It is located along Interstate 65, about north of Birmingham and about south of Huntsville. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 14,775, with an ... at the age of 70. External links * 1913 births 1984 deaths Boston Braves players Major League Baseball pitchers Baseball players from Alabama Enterprise Browns players Augusta Tigers players Binghamton Triplets players Portland Beavers players Indianapolis Indians players Milwaukee Brewers (minor league) players Toledo Mud Hens players San Antonio Missions players Dall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Bottarini
John Charles Bottarini (September 14, 1908 – October 8, 1976) was a right-handed catcher for the Chicago Cubs during the 1937 season. He did not see much playing time as the Cubs were anchored behind the plate by future Hall of Famer Gabby Hartnett. Bottarini appeared in 26 games for the Cubs that season and put up decent offensive numbers, hitting .275 in 40 at-bats with three runs, three doubles, a home run and 7 RBI. He made 19 appearances in the field—18 at catcher and one in the outfield. He handled 53 total chances (44 putouts, 9 assists) at catcher perfectly for a 1.000 fielding percentage. Before his season in Chicago, Bottarini played for the Los Angeles Angels of the Pacific Coast League. After the 1937 season, Bottarini was sold to Memphis of the minor league Southern Association. He would never play in the major leagues again. Bottarini died by drowning after a boating accident on October 8, 1976, in Jemez Springs, New Mexico Jemez Springs (pronounced HEH-m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lon Goldstein
Leslie Elmer Goldstein (May 13, 1918 – January 28, 2013) was a first baseman in Major League Baseball who played briefly for the Cincinnati Reds during the and seasons. He batted and threw left-handed. A native of Austin, Texas, Goldstein was one of many major leaguers who saw his baseball career interrupted by a military stint during World War II. In 1943 he appeared in five games as a backup for first baseman Frank McCormick. He enrolled in the United States Army in 1944, serving for two and half years before rejoining the Reds in the 1946 midseason as a reserve player and pinch hitter. In a two-season career, Goldstein was a .100 hitter (1-for-10) with a run scored and a .308 on-base percentage In baseball statistics, on-base percentage (OBP) measures how frequently a batter reaches base. An official Major League Baseball (MLB) statistic since 1984, it is sometimes referred to as on-base average (OBA), as it is rarely presented as a ... in 11 games. Goldstein ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salty Parker
Francis James "Salty" Parker (July 8, 1912 – July 27, 1992) was a Major League Baseball infielder, coach and manager. Born in East St. Louis, Illinois, he batted and threw right-handed, stood tall and weighed . His professional baseball career began in the minor leagues in 1930. Parker played in the Major Leagues for one month from August 13, 1936 through September 16, 1936. He appeared in 11 games, seven of which were at shortstop, for the Detroit Tigers, collecting seven hits and four RBIs for a .280 batting average and a .333 on-base percentage. Parker was traded from the Tigers on December 2, 1936 to Indianapolis Indians of the American Association, completing a deal that had brought Dizzy Trout to the Tigers. Though Parker only played a month in the Major Leagues, Trout was a Major League pitcher for years, and eventually the Tigers' ace. After a lengthy minor league managerial career, including a stint managing Leones de Escogido in the Dominican Professional Bas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lou Finney
Louis Klopsche Finney (August 13, 1910 – April 22, 1966) was an American professional baseball player. He spent fifteen seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) playing for the Philadelphia Athletics (1931; 1933–1939), Boston Red Sox (1939–1942; 1944–45), St. Louis Browns (1945–46), and Philadelphia Phillies (1947) as an outfielder and first baseman. Born in Buffalo, in Chambers County, Alabama, the left-handed-batting Finney stood tall and weighed . Finney was of Scotch-Irish descent; he was named in memory of Louis Klopsch,Skipper, Doug, ''Lou Finney.'' Biography Project a |
Homer Peel
Homer Hefner Peel (October 10, 1902 – April 8, 1997) was an American professional baseball player and manager during the first half of the 20th century. His career lasted for a quarter century (1923–42; 1946–50), including 21 years as an outfielder and four years as a non-playing manager. Peel appeared in 186 Major League Baseball games over five seasons (1927; 1929–30; 1933–34) for the St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies and New York Giants. The native of Port Sullivan, Milam County, Texas, threw and batted right-handed, stood tall and weighed . He served in the United States Navy during World War II. Peel batted only .238 with an even 100 hits, two home runs and 44 RBI during his Major League career. But he was a member of the 1933 World Series champion Giants, appearing in two games of the 1933 World Series. He was a defensive replacement in center field for Kiddo Davis in Game 2, and singled as a pinch hitter for Freddie Fitzsimmons in Game 3 off Earl Whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barney White
William Barney White (June 25, 1923 – July 24, 2002), nicknamed "Bear", was an American infielder in Major League Baseball who played four games during the season for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Born in Paris, Texas, he died at age 79 in Tyler, Texas Tyler is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the largest city and county seat of Smith County, Texas, Smith County. It is also the largest city in Northeast Texas. With a 2020 census population of 105,995, Tyler was the List of cities in Texa .... External links 1923 births 2002 deaths Major League Baseball infielders Brooklyn Dodgers players Baseball players from Texas People from Paris, Texas Minor league baseball managers Mobile Bears players Fort Worth Cats players Tulsa Oilers (baseball) players Paris Rockets players Temple Eagles players Galveston White Caps players Texas City Pilots players Thibodaux Pilots players {{US-baseball-infielder-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Arthur Seahawks
The Port Arthur Sea Hawks were a Gulf Coast League (1950–1953), Evangeline League (1940–1942, 1954) and Big State League (1955–1956) baseball team based in Port Arthur, Texas, United States. In 1953, they were affiliated with the Dallas Eagles, and in 1954 they were affiliated with the Tyler Tigers. The Sea Hawks played in Seahawk stadium, a new baseball field that was built in 1950 that could seat up to 4,800 fans. The stadium was built in the hopes that professional baseball teams would continue playing in Port Arthur, but the stadium was only used for 8 years before it was torn down. They won one league championship in their history, in their final season - 1956, under managers Lloyd Gearhart and Al Barillari. Among the players who played for them was Al Silvera Aaron Albert Silvera (August 26, 1935 – July 24, 2002) was an American professional baseball player, an outfielder who played parts of two seasons for the Cincinnati Reds, Cincinnati Redlegs of Major League ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Martin (baseball)
Fred Turner Martin (June 27, 1915 – June 11, 1979) was an American professional baseball pitcher, coach, manager and scout. Born in Williams, Oklahoma, Martin threw and batted right-handed, stood tall and weighed during his active playing career. Career Defected to Mexican League Martin was one of a handful Major League Baseball players who "jumped" to the then-outlaw Mexican League during the season. With the reserve clause binding players permanently to the U.S. teams in "Organized Baseball" who held their contracts, the insurgent Mexican League induced players such as Martin, Sal Maglie, Mickey Owen, Lou Klein, Max Lanier, Danny Gardella and others to leave their clubs — in Martin's (and Lanier's and Klein's) case, the pennant-contending but notoriously low-paying St. Louis Cardinals — for greater riches south of the border. Martin, then almost 31, was in his first MLB campaign after seven years of toiling in the minors and four years of World War II service in the U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Stewart
James Maitland Stewart (May 20, 1908 – July 2, 1997) was an American actor and military pilot. Known for his distinctive drawl and everyman screen persona, Stewart's film career spanned 80 films from 1935 to 1991. With the strong morality he portrayed both on and off the screen, he epitomized the "American ideal" in the mid-twentieth century. In 1999, the American Film Institute (AFI) ranked him third on its list of the AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars, greatest American male actors. Born and raised in Indiana, Pennsylvania, Stewart started acting while at Princeton University. After graduating in 1932, he began a career as a stage actor, appearing on Broadway theatre, Broadway and in Summer stock theater, summer stock productions. In 1935, he landed his first supporting role in a movie and in 1938 he had his breakthrough in Frank Capra's ensemble comedy ''You Can't Take It with You (film), You Can't Take It with You''. The following year, Stewart garnered his first of five Acade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
