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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 ...
Cleveland Tigers (NFL) APFA (1920), originally named as the Tigers in 1916 [1] in the Ohio League; renamed Indians in 1921; Cleveland Indians (NFL 1931), league-sponsored team that only played on the road; Cleveland Bulldogs NFL (1924–1925) (1927), named as the Cleveland Indians in 1923; Cleveland Panthers AFL (1926)
On a smaller scale, Ohio hosts minor league baseball, arena football, indoor football, mid-level hockey, and lower division soccer.. The minor league baseball teams include Triple-A East's Columbus Clippers (affiliated with the Cleveland Guardians) and Toledo Mud Hens (affiliated with the Detroit Tigers), Double-A Northeast's Akron RubberDucks (affiliated with the Guardians) and the High-A ...
Charles "Doc" Baker was an early professional American football halfback for the Akron Indians of the "Ohio League" from 1906 to 1908. He returned to the team for one last season in 1911. He was the second-ever African American to play professional football, the first being Charles Follis.
The Ohio Bobcats are the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I [3] Intercollegiate athletic teams that represent Ohio University, located in Athens, Ohio, United States. Ohio University is a charter member (1946) of the Mid-American Conference (MAC), [ 4 ] is currently in the East Division of that conference, and sponsors ...
The stadiums were home to the Akron Pros of the National Football League from 1920 to 1922. [2] In 1933, the Akron Black Tyrites , a Negro league baseball team, played their home games here. [ 1 ] It also hosted the Akron Yankees of the Middle Atlantic League , as well as various other minor league baseball team in Akron.
In 1904, Joseph Carr, who was a sports writer for the Ohio State Journal and manager of the railroad's baseball team the Famous Panhandle White Sox, took over the football team. [10] However, the Panhandles didn't take off and the team played just two games. [11] Carr tried again three years later in 1907.
The team was also not only a member of the mythical Ohio League, which consisted of the best teams in pro football, but won the league's championship in 1916, 1917 and 1919. [ 2 ] On December 11, an estimated 17,000 fans turned out to watch the Union Club and Canton Bulldogs play at the Baker Bowl .