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The season began on April 18, 1885 with the Indianapolis Hoosiers winning the first title with a record of 27–4–1. The league then folded on June 15, 1885. The league was reformed on January 18, 1886, to play an 80-game schedule. Denver won the pennant on September 20, 1886 with a record of 54 wins and 26 losses.
- Western League (1885–1899)
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- Western League (1885–1899)
The Western League was the name of several American sports leagues in Minor League Baseball. This article concentrates on the Western Leagues that operated from 1900 to 1937 and from 1947 to 1958. Its earliest progenitor, the Western League of 1885–1899, was the predecessor of the American League.
22. Juni 2023 · Minor league legend Perry Werden had some of his best years in the Western League of the 1894-1899 era. From 1900 to 1937 the Western League had its longest-living entry, with teams again stationed in the midwest in places like Sioux City, Des Moines and Cedar Rapids; Denver, Oklahoma City and Omaha also had runs in the circuit.
- Early History
- Major League Beginning
- Mid-To-Late 20th Century
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The earliest predecessor to the American League was the Northwestern League, a minor league with teams based in the Midwestern United States. Along with the National League and American Association, the Northwestern League was one of the three leagues that signed the National Agreement, an agreement wherein the signers covenanted to honor contractu...
The 1901 season was the first season that the American League (AL) was classified as a "major league". The AL comprised clubs in Chicago (nicknamed the White Stockings by sportswriters for their uniform hosiery), Boston (soon informally dubbed "Americans" to distinguish them from the city's National League club), Detroit (an original Western League...
World War II and desegregation
Like nearly everything else, Major League Baseball was affected by the United States involvement in World War II. Players off of every roster in the American League served in a branch of the United States Military; of 144 major-league starters on Opening Day of 1941, only 26 were still in baseball by 1945. More than a thousand current or former major-leaguers served in the military during the war. One player, Elmer Gedeon, from the American League was killed in action. Gedeon played outfield...
Expansion era and franchise shifts
Over the last half of the 20th century, the league expanded and teams changed locales. The St. Louis Browns relocated to Baltimore, Maryland and became the "Baltimore Orioles" in 1954 (the very first time a team actually moved east instead of south or west). After the '54 season the Philadelphia Athletics moved to Kansas City, Missouri to become the "Kansas City Athletics" (before moving again to Oakland, California in 1968). After the 1960 season, the Washington Senators moved to Minneapolis...
Before its most famous version in November 1893, the Western League existed in various forms. The League was created as a minor league on February 11, 1885. The original clubs were in Indianapolis ‚ Kansas City ‚ Cleveland ‚ Milwaukee ‚ Toledo and Omaha / Keokuk, Iowa.
30. Nov. 2022 · Similar to the ending of the Union Association, Sullivan of Kansas City and Loftus of Milwaukee were the only delegates in attendance, forcing an end to the first season of the Western League. 43 Bill Watkins’s Indianapolis Hoosiers won the 1885 league pennant with Loftus’s Milwaukee team in second, seven games behind, and ...
