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Union Professional League
The Union Professional League was a professional baseball league that played for less than two months in 1908. The league was founded by businessman Alfred Lawson (1869–1954), who had briefly pitched for the Boston Beaneaters and the Pittsburgh Alleghenies in the National League (founded 1876) in 1890; he would later become known for his philosophy known as Lawsonomy and for his success in the aviation business. History The league was established in December 1907. Lawson had founded an outlaw baseball league before the 1907 season; he called it the Atlantic League, a name also used by multiple other eastern leagues in baseball history. Lawson took three Atlantic League teams with him when he founded the Union Professional League. The final list of teams included clubs from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Newark, New Jersey; Elizabeth, New Jersey; Paterson, New Jersey; Brooklyn, New York; Washington, DC; Wilmington, Delaware; Reading, Pennsylvania and Baltimore, Maryland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Lawson
Alfred William Lawson (March 24, 1869 – November 29, 1954) was an English born professional baseball player, aviator and utopian philosopher. He was a baseball player, manager, and league promoter from 1887 through 1916 and went on to play a pioneering role in the U.S. aircraft industry. He published two early aviation trade journals. He is frequently cited as the inventor of the airliner and was awarded several of the first air mail contracts, which he ultimately could not fulfill. He founded the Lawson Aircraft Company in Green Bay, Wisconsin, to build military training aircraft and later the Lawson Airplane Company in South Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to build airliners. The crash of his ambitious Lawson L-4 "Midnight Liner" during its trial flight takeoff on May 8, 1921, ended his best chance for commercial aviation success. In 1904, he wrote a utopian novel, ''Born Again'', in which he developed the philosophy which later became Lawsonomy. Baseball career (1888–1907 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
