The Western Canada League was the name of three different baseball circuits in
Minor League Baseball that operated between 1907 and 1921.
The first instance of the league was a
Class D circuit that played only in 1907 with four teams sponsored by four cities. The second instance was also a Class D league, which ran from 1909 through 1914 with 11 different cities represented in its six years of existence. The third instance started with four teams at the
Class C level in 1919, expanded to six teams in
Class B in 1920, and subsequently folded after the 1921 season.
1907
Cities represented/Teams
1909-1914
Cities represented/Teams
1919-1921
Cities represented/Teams
Champions
Hall of Fame alumni
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Heinie Manush
Henry Emmett Manush (July 20, 1901 – May 12, 1971), nicknamed "Heinie", was an American baseball outfielder. He played professional baseball for 20 years from 1920 to 1939, including 17 years in Major League Baseball for the Detroit Tigers (1 ...
Notable players
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George Blackburn
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Jess Buckles
Jesse Robert Buckles (May 20, 1890 – August 2, 1975), nicknamed "Jim", was a Major League Baseball pitcher who appeared in two games, both in relief, for the New York Yankees near the end of the 1916 season.
Buckles made his major league deb ...
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Cuckoo Christensen
Walter Niels "Cuckoo" Christensen (October 24, 1899 – December 20, 1984) born in San Francisco, California, was a baseball outfielder for the Cincinnati Reds (-).
Christensen led the National League (baseball), National League in on-base percen ...
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Ches Crist
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Steamer Flanagan
James Paul Flanagan (April 20, 1881 – April 21, 1947) was a Major League Baseball center fielder. He played for the Pittsburgh Pirates just at the end of the 1905 season (September 25-October 7). The 24-year-old rookie, who stood and weighed ...
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Chicken Hawks
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Spencer Heath
Spencer Heath (January 3, 1876, Vienna, Virginia – October 6, 1963, Leesburg, Virginia) was an American engineer, attorney, inventor, manufacturer, horticulturist, poet, philosopher of science and social thinker.Spencer Heath MacCallum"The Qu ...
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Babe Herman
Floyd Caves "Babe" Herman (June 26, 1903 – November 27, 1987) was an American professional baseball player and scout. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a right fielder between and , most prominently as a member of the Brooklyn D ...
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Jerry Hurley
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Joe Kernan Joe Kernan or Joseph Kernan may refer to:
* Joe Kernan (baseball), 19th-century American baseball player
* Joe Kernan (Gaelic footballer) (born 1954)
* Joe Kernan (politician) (1946–2020), American politician
* Joseph D. Kernan (born 1955), Uni ...
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Howard Lohr
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Jim McGuire
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Bill Merritt
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Bernie Neis
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Lou Nordyke
Louis Ellis Nordyke (August 7, 1876 – September 27, 1945) was an American Major League Baseball first baseman who played for the St. Louis Browns for one season, from April 18 to June 27, 1906. He was sold to the Browns by the Tacoma Tige ...
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Harry Raymond
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Jack Sheehan
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Jack Smith
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Ed Taylor
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Tex Vache
Ernest Lewis "Tex" Vache (November 17, 1888 – June 11, 1953) was an American professional baseball player.
Biography
Vache was born November 17, 1888, in Santa Monica, California. It took him until the age of 36 to reach the Major Leagues. ...
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Ken Williams
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Les Wilson
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Ralph Works
Ralph Talmadge Works (March 16, 1888 – August 8, 1941), nicknamed "Judge," was an American professional baseball pitcher. He played all or part of five seasons in Major League Baseball with the Detroit Tigers (1909–12) and Cincinnati Reds ...
Sources
Baseball Reference minor leagues
Defunct baseball leagues in Canada