The Brockville Blues were a minor league baseball team based in

Brockville Brockville, formerly Elizabethtown, is a city in Eastern Ontario, Canada, in the Thousand Islands region. Although it is the seat of the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville, it is politically Independent city, independent of the county. It i ...

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, Canada. The team competed in the

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for two seasons. In 1936, they were known as the Brockville Pirates and were not affiliated with any major league team. In 1937, they played as the Blues and were a

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of the

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. Brockville had previously fielded a minor league team in 1888, in the Eastern International League. Jesse Spring, the team's

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in 1936, was best known as a professional

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player, having spent six seasons in the

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(NHL).

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