Category: Middle Atlantic League

Middle Atlantic League

Oil City Refiners

The Oil City Refiners were a Chicago White Sox farm club from Northwestern Pennsylvania that played in the Class C Middle Atlantic League from 1947 through 1950. During their four-season run as a ChiSox affiliate, the Refiners never managed to develop a future Major League ballplayer.

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Vandergrift Pioneers

The Vandergrift Pioneers were a Class C minor league baseball team in Westmoreland County, Western Pennsylvania. The Pioneers served as a farm club of the Philadelphia Phillies for three-and-a-half seasons from 1947 to 1950. The Pioneers were the champions of the Middle Atlantic League in their debut summer of 1947. The team disbanded due to financial difficulties midway through the 1950 season.

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Uniontown Coal Barons

The Uniontown Coal Barons were a Class C farm club of the Pittsburgh Pirates that competed in the Middle Atlantic League from 1947 through 1949. Uniontown, located 45 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, was a city of 20,000 at the time, built on steel mills and the coal industry. The city’s population has fallen by more than 50% since World War II and pro baseball never returned to Uniontown after the Coal Barons disbanded during the winter of 1949-50.

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Youngstown Gremlins Baseball

Youngstown Gremlins

Middle Atlantic League (1946) Born: 1946 Re-Branded: 1947 (Youngstown Colts) First Game: Last Game: Middle Atlantic League Championships: None Idora Park Owners: Major League Affiliation:  

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1939 Dayton Wings Scorecard

Dayton Wings (1939-1940)

The Dayton Wings were a Class C farm club of the Brooklyn Dodgers during the summers of 1939 and 1940. The Dayton franchise played in the Middle Atlantic League from 1933-1942 and was known as the “Dayton Ducks” for all of that time except for this two-year interlude. The Ducks took their name from the team’s owner and field manager, a cantankerous former catcher named Howard “Ducky” Holmes” who played for the St. Louis Cardinals for one week in 1906 and later became a Major League umpire. The Dayton club seems to have parted ways with Holmes in 1939 and felt the need to re-brand the team at the same time.  In 1941, Holmes regained control of the team and changed the name back to the Ducks.

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