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The Montreal Royals were a minor league professional baseball team in Montreal, Quebec, during 1897–1917 and 1928–1960.A member of the International League, the Royals were the top farm club of the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1939; pioneering African-American player Jackie Robinson was a member for the 1946 season.
In baseball, earned run average (ERA) is a statistic used to evaluate pitchers, calculated as the mean of earned runs given up by a pitcher per nine innings pitched. A pitcher is men by a baserunner who reached base while batting against that pitcher, whether by hit, base on balls or "walk", or being hit by a pitched ball; [1] an earned run can be charged after the pitcher is relieved if he ...
Frank Shaughnessy, general manager of the International League's Montreal Royals, was interested in developing a way for multiple clubs to share in the excitement of postseason play. His new playoff format , devised to maintain the interest of fans and players alike during the Great Depression , provided an opportunity for four teams to compete ...
This category is for players of the Montreal Royals minor league baseball team, which played in the Eastern League (1899–1911), International League (1912–1917), Eastern Canada League (1922–1923), Ontario–Quebec–Vermont League (1924) and International League (1928–1960).
The 1948 International League was a Class AAA baseball season played between April 22 and September 29. Eight teams played a 154-game schedule, with the top four teams qualifying for the post-season.
This is a list of the top 100 players in career earned run average, who have thrown at least 1,000 innings. Ed Walsh [ 1 ] [ 2 ] holds the major league earned run average record at 1.816. Addie Joss [ 3 ] (1.887) and Jim Devlin [ 4 ] (1.896) are the only other pitchers with a career earned run average under 2.000.
The Royals have completed one of the best turnarounds in MLB history. But it doesn’t have to be just a regular-season story. At last, KC Royals are in MLB playoffs again.
The Montreal Royales were one of eight teams in the short-lived Canadian Baseball League (2003 only). The Royales of the CBL, unrelated to the Montreal Royals of 1939–1960, were strictly a road team which never succeeded in obtaining a "home" field in the Montreal area to play, despite several efforts to negotiate one.