The Drummondville professional baseball team was a member of the now extinct Quebec Provincial League and operated in Drummondville, in the Centre-du-Québec region of

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. The team went through many incarnations over the years. They debuted as the Drummondville Tigers in 1940, but disbanded on July 6 of that year after posting a poor record. Professional baseball would come back to Quebec after World War II, when the

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began operations. The league was rated as Class C, and the Drummondville Cubs would play as an unaffiliated team from 1948 to 1951. Then in 1952, the Cubs signed an agreement with the Washington Senators, and officially became the Senators Class C franchise. They would change their name to the Drummondville Royals in 1953 and again operate as a co-operative franchise. In 1954 the Philadelphia Athletics would come to town and make Drummondville their Class C home. The team then was renamed as the Drummondville A's, during what turned out to be their final season in the league.

Timetable

Selected players by season

* George Armstrong (1950) *

Dan Bankhead Daniel Robert Bankhead (May 3, 1920 – May 2, 1976) was the first African American pitcher in Major League Baseball. He played in Negro league baseball for the Birmingham Black Barons and the Memphis Red Sox from 1940 to 1947, then played for th ...

(1953) *

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(1950) *

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(1952) * Hank Biasetti (1954) * Herb Crompton (1952) *

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(1949) *

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(1953) *

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(1949) * Eric MacKenzie (1954) *

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(1949) *

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(1951) *

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(1951) * Vic Power (1949–1950) * Jim Pearce (1948) *

Tex Shirley Alvis Newman "Tex" Shirley (April 25, 1918 – November 7, 1993) was an American professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1941 to 1946 for the Philadelphia Athletics and St. Louis Browns The St. Louis Browns ...

(1949) *

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(1949) * Joe Tuminelli (1948–1949) * Roberto Vargas (1949) * Ed Wheeler (1951) * Roy Zimmerman (1949)

References

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