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The Danville Dans are a collegiate summer league baseball team located in Danville, Illinois. The team plays in the Prospect League, which their former league, the NCAA-sanctioned Central Illinois Collegiate League, was absorbed into after the 2008 season. In their history as a CICL team, the Dans won nine tournament titles.
On September 18, 2011, the Slammers were named Frontier League champions after defeating the River City Rascals, 6–5 in Joliet, taking the best-of-five Frontier League championship series three games to one. Following the 2012 season, the Slammers were purchased on October 15, 2012, by Joliet Community Baseball & Entertainment, LLC.
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player Born in Chicago [16] Alek Thomas: April 28, 2000: Major League Baseball player Born in Chicago Stan Wasiak: Apr 8, 1920: Nov 20, 1992: Minor league manager, King of Baseball: Born in Chicago [citation needed] Phil Weintraub: Oct 12, 1907: Jun 21, 1987: Major League Baseball first baseman ...
The company was founded by Sol S. Leaf in Chicago, Illinois, in the 1940s. Its history includes a number of mergers, acquisitions, and divisions, as well as several name changes. 1948 Ted Williams baseball card. This set was the first post-World War II set in full color. In 1940, the Leaf Confectionery Company introduced Rain-Blo Bubble Gum.
Baseball Talk was a set of 164 "talking" baseball cards that were released by Topps and the LJN Corporation during the spring of 1989. Each card featured a plastic disk affixed to the back of an oversized baseball card. When placed in the SportsTalk player the cards would play two to three minutes of recorded audio. [1]
The Danville Veterans rejoined the Three-I League in 1922–1932, winning league championships in 1927 and 1930. Danville was an affiliate of the St. Louis Cardinals from 1927–1932. Joe McGinnity, 1946 Baseball Hall of Fame Inductee. After World War II, the Brooklyn Dodgers came to town with their Danville Dodgers affiliate in the Three-I League.
A native of Bartlesville, Oklahoma, Davis made his Negro leagues debut with the St. Louis Stars in 1924. Known for his spitball and emery ball, [2] he enjoyed a career that lasted over 20 years. [3] Davis died in Chicago, Illinois in 1968 at age 64. His grave was marked by the Negro Leagues Baseball Grave Marker Project in 2005. [4]
Donald Fehr, US, former executive director of the MLB Players Association and of the National Hockey League Players Association [22] Andrew Friedman, US, President of Baseball Operations of the Los Angeles Dodgers (and previously general manager of the Tampa Bay Rays) of Major League Baseball [23]