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The Indiana–Ohio League was a class D level baseball league that operated briefly in 1908. The league was started on May 9, 1908, with four teams. Three of the teams were based in Indiana, with one in Ohio. National Association status was granted to the league by Minor League Baseball on June 3, 1908.
Cincinnati Red Stockings were the first professional baseball club founded in 1866 and disbanded following the 1870 season. During the offseason, core members such as brothers Harry & George Wright moved to Boston to help start a newly formed baseball club called the Boston Red Stockings, eventually becoming known as the Boston Braves; the team moved to Milwaukee and became the Milwaukee ...
The Ohio League was an informal and loose association of American football clubs active between 1902 and 1919 that competed for the Ohio Independent Championship (OIC). As the name implied, its teams were mostly based in Ohio .
Ohio State League: Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, West Virginia: Independent (1887) Class D (1908–1916, 1936–1947) 1887, 1908–1916, 1936–1947 Ohio-Indiana League: Indiana, Ohio: Class D: 1948–1951 Ohio-Pennsylvania League: Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia: Class C (1905–1911) Class D (1912) 1905–1912 Ohio Valley League: Ohio ...
The Fort Wayne Kekiongas were a professional baseball team, notable for winning the first professional league game on May 4, 1871. [1] Though based in Fort Wayne, they were usually listed in game reports as simply "Kekionga" or "the Kekiongas", per the style of the day. "Fort Wayne Kekiongas" is modern nomenclature.
The Dayton Marcos history predates the formal organized leagues of Negro league baseball. As an independent team, and also as the only black team in the Ohio-Indiana League [1] they played black and white teams all over the country throughout the 1910s. Early newspaper accounts mention the team as early as 1909, billing them as "one of the ...
The Ohio–Indiana League was a Class D level minor league baseball league that operated from 1948 to 1951. The league was composed of six teams from Ohio and two teams from Indiana. The Marion Red Sox won three consecutive league championships beginning in 1949. There was also a six–team Ohio–Indiana League that played the 1907 season.
Young played semi-pro baseball and was a lightweight wrestler in his youth. He also he promoted amateur and semi-pro boxing matches in Hammond. His greatest love was horse racing; Doc owned a stable of horses and spent several years making the circuit of the leading race tracks.