Eastern League (1919-1930)
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Born: 1919
Died: 1930
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Background
The Pittsfield Hillies were a Depression-era minor league baseball team in the Berkshires region of Western Massachusetts. They played in the Class A Eastern League and won league titles in 1919 and 1921.
21st Century Tribute
On July 3, 2004 former Major League pitcher and Ball Four author Jim Bouton helped promote a vintage baseball game at Wahconah Park (still in use today as one of the oldest ballparks in America). At the time, Bouton was part of a group trying to acquire an independent pro baseball team for Pittsfield, an effort that ultimately fell through. The vintage game featured teams playing as the Hillies and their old Eastern League rivals, the Hartford Senators. The exhibition attracted around 5,000 fans and was broadcast live on ESPN Classic with Bill “Spaceman” Lee as the color man.
Re-matches were played in Hartford later that July and back again at Wahconah in September.
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I have a mint condition 1919 hillies yearbook is it worth anything and is there any historical society that maybe would like to have it as a donation? Thanks.
My Grandfather played on that team! Colonel Snover (no, that’s his real name, not a nickname).
Would you mind checking if a man named Jim McGill played on the team?
My father was a catcher on the team for just one year in 1927.