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They say Rosay had a guy at the ready rolling the stogies, which were Bello brand.
Against expectations, the agency included premium, hand-rolled cigars in its oversight along with mass-produced, machine-cut stogies.
Cigar Afficionado's Man Of The Year since the dawn of time, Fidel finally gave up his stogies in 1985.
With one whiff I can tell why the place is called "Cigar City," as people all around me are smoking hand-rolled stogies.
A police officer threatened to arrest anyone who didn&apost stub out their stogies, but multiple players laughed at the cop&aposs demand.
The Oregon Ducks were smellin' roses -- AND cigar smoke -- after the team's huge 1-point win over Wisconsin on Wednesday ... whippin' out the stogies for an epic locker room celly!!
Steph Curry's dishing beers and stogies in the off-season, the same way he dished the rock in the NBA Finals ... but now it's his family scoring instead of Kevin Durant.
Worth noting -- some of the dudes on this team aren't 21, so they better enjoy the stogies while they can before that new Tobacco 21 law goes into effect later this year!!
As the reporters saunter down Broadway with stogies, Peele runs into a friend who starts shouting at random people on the street: "These guys just won the Pulitzer Prize!" he tells construction workers.
The reggae star says he's not one for bongs -- preferring to keep it old school with big, fat Jamaican stogies ... and wants to teach the Diaz bros to do the same, like real rastas do.
The snow and mud were over ankle deep in the middle of the street, but stout Irish legs encased in triplet solid 'stogies' would unquestionably have essayed this, only for a pitiless pelting rain that set in early and kept up with slight cessation until the after part of the day.
In early 1914, the Federal League president James Gilmore discussed with Robert B. Ward, owner of the Brooklyn Tip Tops, that he was concerned about the financial backing of the Stogies' franchise. Ward then found Edward Gwinner, a railroad contractor with deep pockets. Gwinner was then partnered with architect C. B. Comstock as the new backers of the Pittsburgh Stogies. Doc Gessler was named the Stogies' manager.
The town also had a thriving tobacco industry with Marsh Wheeling's Stogies as a leading enterprise, and later the club's name changed to the Wheeling Stogies in 1899. In 1900 Ed Poole went 20–15 for the Wheeling Stogies. He also played in the infield and outfield when he didn't pitch and batted .257. Poole was then acquired by the Pittsburgh Pirates and made his major league debut in October of that year.
The Stogies' 1909 season featured Hall of Fame inductee, Bill McKechnie. The 1909 season also featured several memorable exhibition games. The first was against a barnstorming team led by baseball great Cap Anson his semi- professional team, which he called "Anson's Colts". The Colts defeated the Stogies 10-4 with Anson going 1-5 and scoring a run for the Colts, while Bill McKechnie went 1-4 with a run for Wheeling. The Stogies also faced the New York Giants and the Philadelphia Athletics that season, losing 7-2 and 3-0 respectively. However, on April 8, 1909, the Stogies defeated the Athletics 5-4 in front of just 250 fans at Wheeling.
Lytle also managed in the minor leagues with the New Castle Quakers in 1899 and the Wheeling Stogies from 1899 to 1900.
Smokin' Stogies is a 2001 American crime film starring Frank Vincent, Tony Sirico, Joseph Marino and written and directed by Vincent Di Rosa.
In June 2004, the Washington Wild Things of the independent Frontier League wore Stogies jerseys to honor the team against the Chillicothe Paints.
October 3, 1920, at League Park The Pros made their AFPA debut against the Wheeling Stogies. Playing in front of 4,000 fans, the Pros' defense started the game off with a safety in the first quarter. Throughout the game, Nesser scored three touchdowns—two fumble recoveries and one blocked field goal. Pollard also scored two rushing touchdowns to help lead Akron to a 43–0 victory over the Stogies.
The Stogies had begun holding Sunday games to increase attendance, but received warrants sworn by Wheeling Island residents and a fine on April 29, 1900, during their first Sunday game on the island. The Stogies continued to play Sunday games, claiming them to be for charity's sake; however, the team's players were again fined by Judge J. R. LaRue. A local federation of churches and other people opposed to Sunday baseball games applied to Melvin and the circuit court for an injunction to restrict the Stogies and other baseball clubs from playing on Sunday because it was a "public nuisance". His injunction, the violation of which was a fine of $2,000, followed.
After his playing days were over, White performed three different stints as the manager of minor league clubs in Wheeling, West Virginia. The first took place for the 1896 Nailers of the Interstate League, then in 1901 for the Stogies of the Western Association, and finally for the 1905 Stogies of the Central League. White died in Bellaire, Ohio at the age of 64, and is interred at Greenwood Cemetery of that city.
Published by Running Press, Philadelphia. . . Historic McKechnie Field, located in Bradenton, Florida, was the location for many of the film's scenes. Outside North America, the film was released as Stogies.
Fox began his professional baseball career in 1930 with the Evansville Hubs of the Illinois–Indiana–Iowa League. After only seven games with the Hubs, Fox was sent to the Wheeling Stogies of the Mid-Atlantic League. He appeared in 106 games for the Stogies in 1930, compiling a .339 batting average with 24 doubles, 15 triples, and 14 home runs in 422 at bats. After a strong showing with Wheeling, Fox was recalled to Evansville for the 1931 season.
The Fairmont Black Diamonds were the Middle Atlantic League champions after defeating the Wheeling Stogies in the playoffs. With a record of 65–53, the Cumberland Colts finished 1929, 3rd in the Middle Atlantic League.
333 with 111 runs and 29 triples in 109 games. In 1901, with the Wheeling Stogies, Lizotte hit .330 in 127 games.BR Minors In 1907 and 1908, he managed the minor league Wilkes-Barre Barons.
The Tampico Stogies are a last-place baseball team based in Tampico, Florida. The team competes in the lowest-level (Class D) professional Gulf Coast league during the summer of 1957. It is unclear if the team is affiliated with a major league franchise; if so, it receives minimal, if any, support in money or players from the parent club. The Stogies are owned by a pair of corrupt and scheming local Tampico businessmen, Hale Buchman (Henry Gibson) and his son, Hale Buchman Jr. (Teller).
Charles Arthur Baker (1856–1937) was a 19th-century professional baseball outfielder. He played for the Chicago Browns/Pittsburgh Stogies in the Union Association in 1884. He later played in the New England League in 1886-1887.
Edward Siegfried Hengel (September 16, 1855 – November 4, 1927) was a professional baseball player, manager, umpire. He is best known for managing the Chicago Browns/Pittsburgh Stogies, a team in the major league Union Association that only operated in 1884.
Joseph J. Ellick (April 3, 1854 - April 21, 1923) was a 19th-century Major League Baseball player. He was also briefly the player-manager of the Chicago Browns/Pittsburgh Stogies of the Union Association, compiling a record of 6–6 with one tie.
Stephen J. Matthias (1860 - July 29, 1891) was an American professional baseball player who played in thirty-seven games for the Chicago Browns/Pittsburgh Stogies of the Union Association during the season. He was born in Mitchellville, Maryland and died in Baltimore, Maryland.
Manufactured from 1997 to 1999 — the deepest years of the "cigar bust" which followed the faddish cigar boom of the 1990s — Bogey's Stogies proved an unprofitable venture. By the spring of 1999, Rubin found himself approximately $60,000 in debt and facing failure of his venture.
Lawrence Howard "Larry" Douglas (June 5, 1890 – November 4, 1949) was a Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the Baltimore Terrapins of the Federal League in . He also played in the minor leagues in 1915 and with the Martinsburg Champs and the Wheeling Stogies.
However, he led the National League with 74 errors in his 55 games as catcher and also gave up 67 passed balls. Gross concluded his major league career in 1884 playing for the Chicago Browns/Pittsburgh Stogies of the Union Association. Gross hit .358 with a .
Poole was born in Canton, Ohio. He started his professional baseball career in 1897 and played in the Interstate League for four seasons. In 1900, he went 20–15 for the Wheeling Stogies. He also played in the infield and outfield when he didn't pitch and batted .257.
The squad sputtered to a 49-63 record, however, and partway through the season, Doyle departed the team with an 8-9 record. Shortly afterwards, he began pitching for the Class B Central League Wheeling Stogies. On August 21, , Wheeling sold his contract to the New York Highlanders.
The Wheeling Stogies was a minor league baseball team based in Wheeling, West Virginia, that played under several different names at various times between 1877 and 1934. They played mostly in the Central League and the Middle Atlantic League, as well as in several various other area-based leagues.
James B. "Chippy" McGarr (May 10, 1863 – June 6, 1904) was a professional baseball player who played third baseman in Major League Baseball from 1884 to 1896. He played for the Chicago Browns/Pittsburgh Stogies, Philadelphia Athletics, St. Louis Browns, Baltimore Orioles, Boston Beaneaters, Cleveland Spiders, and Kansas City Cowboys.
Doc became the manager of the Pittsburgh Stogies of the upstart Federal League in , but after 11 games, and a 3 win 8 loss record, was replaced by Rebel Oakes. The team soon adopted the nickname Rebels after their new manager, who remained their manager through the 1914 season, and the entire season.
In 1914, the Pittsburgh Stogies began play at Exposition Park. In 1915, the team, renamed the Pittsburgh Rebels, despite improving from the previous season, disbanded due to financial loss with the entire Federal League. Exposition Park continued to host Semi-professional baseball games, as well as other events, but "was eventually razed".
The Pittsburgh Rebels were a Major League Baseball club based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1914 and 1915. The team was a member of the short-lived Federal League.They finished the 1914 season as the Pittsburgh Rebels. The team was originally called Pittsburgh Stogies after an earlier Pittsburgh team that played in the Union Association in 1884.
Managed by Angus Grant, the Greens were 3rd in the league, with a 77–62 regular season record. South Bend finished 5.5 games behind the 1st place Wheeling Stogies. The South Bend Greens finished 7th in the eight–team 1906 Central League. South Bend finished 62–88, under Angus Grant, 36.5 games behind the Champion Grand Rapids Wolverines.
In addition to the Pirates, the Pittsburgh Stogies, Pittsburgh Burghers and Pittsburgh Rebels played in various leagues from 1884 to 1915. The Rebels won the pennant in 1912 and finished just a half game shy of a pennant in 1915. The Pittsburgh Keystones, Homestead Grays (playing in the city limits), and Pittsburgh Crawfords played in the Negro Leagues.
The Pros also added end Bob Nash, who previously played for the Tigers, Al Garrett, and end Al Nesser of the famous Nesser brothers. They opened their regular season with a win over the Wheeling Stogies, en route to an 8–0–3 record. In week 11, the Pros traded Bob Nash—the first trade in APFA history.
In 1915 and 1916, he joined the Wheeling (W.Va.) Stogies, eventually becoming acting manager midway through the 1915 season. He played and coached the legendary Earle "Greasy" Neale, from West Virginia Wesleyan College, who later played in the World Series with the champion Cincinnati Reds in 1919 (the legendary "Black Sox" series with Chicago taking money to throw games).
Lewis N. "Jumbo" Schoeneck (March 3, 1862 – January 20, 1930) was a Major League Baseball first baseman. He played for the Chicago Browns/Pittsburgh Stogies () and the Baltimore Monumentals (), both of the Union Association, and for the National League Indianapolis Hoosiers (-). He received the nickname "Jumbo" because he was and weighed 223 pounds. Schoeneck was an average fielder and a good hitter during his major league career.
Rubin later recalled the relationship was one-sided and costly. "It didn't work out very well," he said in a January 2011 interview with Cigar Aficionado magazine. "He was taking my money and not giving me product." The first cigars by Alec Bradley were known as "Bogey's Stogies" and were designed to be sold through golf pro shops for golfers to smoke on the course.
In 1912, he managed the Pittsburgh Filipinos, which were named after him, and began play in the United States Baseball League. The Filipinos finished in first place during the league's inaugural season, which lasted only one month, with a 19-7 record. The team then moved to the new Federal League in 1913 and, for a short time, was later renamed the Pittsburgh Stogies.
The Pittsburgh Pirates purchased McKechnie from Wheeling at the end of the season. However, to close out the 1909 season, the Pirates, who had just won the 1909 World Series, and the Central League champions played against each other in an exhibition game in Wheeling. The Stogies defeated the Pirates 9-1; however, the Pittsburgh club played many back-up players in the game.
They smoked unfiltered stogies, drank wine "with seeming abandon" in lieu of milk and soft drinks, skipped the Mediterranean diet in favor of meatballs and sausages fried in lard with hard and soft cheeses. The men worked in the slate quarries where they contracted illnesses from gases and dust. Roseto also had no crime, and very few applications for public assistance. Wolf attributed Rosetans' lower heart disease rate to lower stress.
In 2001, the Wheeling plant was closed and the company was bought by National Cigar, which moved production to Frankfort, Indiana. M. Marsh & Son is most notably remembered for the Marsh Wheeling brand of stogies. The cigar's famous box became a known staple of the tobacco industry. A box also appeared in the movie The Green Mile as the home of Mr. Jangles, a mouse kept by one of the prisoners.
The team finished in fourth place during the 1916 season. However, the team folded again in 1917 due to struggles associated with World War I. The Stogies once again took to the field in 1925, as a member of the Middle Atlantic League. During this time, the team consisted of brothers Dan and Art Rooney. Art, an outfielder, led the team in games played, runs scored, hits and stolen bases.
With the addition of these new players, the Stogies go on a red-hot winning streak. On the verge of a pennant, however, Cantrell is told that throwing the big game would give a substantial boost to his sagging career. He is offered a managerial position in the minor leagues with the Cardinals organization, on the condition he does not show up for the final game. If he plays, his future managerial career is over.
With the Brewers, he got one hit in four at-bats. During the 1898 season, he was the player-manager for the Class-B New Castle Quakers of the Interstate League. In 1899, he began the season with the Wheeling Stogies after being traded with George Kihm by their previous team, the New Castle Quakers, in exchange for John Farrell and William Graffius. He also played for the Class-B Fort Wayne Indians in 1899.
The Filipinos finished in first place during the league's inaugural season, which lasted only one month, with a 19-7 record. In 1913, the team became a charter member of the Federal League, which was still a minor league at the time. The club was renamed that season as the Pittsburgh Stogies after an earlier Pittsburgh team that played in the Union Association in 1884. The following season, the Federal League declared itself major league.
With a record of 80–60, under Manager Angus Grant, South Bend was 4.0 games behind the Evansville River Rats and 3.0 games ahead of the Dayton Veterans. South Bend pitcher Cy Alberts pitched a no–hitter on May 11, 1908, as the Greens defeated the Wheeling Stogies 7–0. The 1909 South Bend Greens finished 6th in the Central League, managed by Angus Grant. The Greens had a record of 64–72.
Chicago is unique in Major League Baseball in that both of its charter member clubs have remained in their original cities. Various other clubs had brief lifespans in the Windy City also. The entry in the one-year wonder called the Union Association was called the Chicago Browns by some writers. The club lasted half a season and then transferred to Pittsburgh where, continuing their color scheme, they were called the Stogies.
Weekends at the D.L. was a talk show on Comedy Central, created in July 2005. In a typical episode, host D. L. Hughley entertains guests around a coffee table, where they drink wine and smoke stogies on the D.L. Comedy skits, both live and in the form of short video clips, were also featured in the program. The show aired Friday and Saturday at 10PM EST until January 2006, when it was canceled due to low ratings.
His best year was in 1876 for the St. Louis Brown Stockings, when he batted .300 and scored 34 runs. Battin briefly served as manager for two different teams; the Pittsburgh Alleghenys of the American Association in 1883 (2–11 record) and 1884 (6–7 record), and the Chicago Browns/Pittsburgh Stogies of the Union Association in 1884 (1–5 record). In 1936, the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum listed Battin on the ballot.
Emil Michael Gross (March 3, 1858 – August 21, 1921), was an American professional baseball player whose career spanned from 1877 to 1884. He played five years in Major League Baseball as a catcher for the Providence Grays (1879–1881), Philadelphia Quakers (1883), and Chicago Browns/Pittsburgh Stogies (1884). In 1880, Gross established a new major league record by appearing in 87 games as catcher. During his major league career, he appeared in 248 games and compiled a .
Spalding's Official Athletic Library Baseball Guide (New York: American Sports Publishing Co., 1910), p. 181. Meanwhile, the Zanesville team competed fiercely with the Wheeling Stogies, who took the Central League Championship with an 88-50 record. The Infants were runners-up in the contest, closing the season with a 75-58 record. In July 1909, the Zanesville Infants earned a spot in baseball history when the team participated in the first electrified night game in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
William Brown Foley (November 15, 1855 – November 12, 1916) was a Major League Baseball third baseman. He played all or part of seven seasons in the majors, playing for five different teams in three different leagues. His career began in the National Association in with the Chicago White Stockings, and ended in the Union Association in with the Chicago Browns/Pittsburgh Stogies. From until , he was the starting third baseman for the Cincinnati Reds and Milwaukee Grays.
The Tigers signed Goldstein and assigned him to the Wheeling Stogies of the Mid-Atlantic League where he compiled a 12–9 record and a 3.61 ERA in 1928. In 1929, Goldstein played for the Evansville Hubs of the Three I League, compiling a 12–8 record with a 2.74 ERA. Goldstein remained in Evansville in 1930, compiling a 14–11 record and a 3.52 ERA. Goldstein spent most of the 1931 season with the Beaumont Exporters of the Texas League.
George Andrew Strief (October 16, 1856 - April 1, 1946) was an American professional baseball second baseman and outfielder. Strief played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1879 to 1885 for the Cleveland Blues, Pittsburgh Alleghenys, St. Louis Browns, Kansas City Cowboys, Chicago Browns/Pittsburgh Stogies, and Philadelphia Athletics. On May 3, 1882, Strief hit the first-ever home run in Pittsburgh Pirates history. Strief's home run came five years before the Pirates (then called the Pittsburgh Alleghenys) entered the National League.
Miller's major league career began in 1884 for the Chicago Browns/Pittsburgh Stogies of the Union Association. He lasted just one start, in which he threw a complete game victory, allowing only two runs. He then moved on to the Providence Grays, filling in the rotation due to injuries to their top pitchers, Charles Radbourn and Charlie Sweeney. Even though he did pitch well for long stretches during the games, he struggled to secure the victories in the late innings and had to be replaced.
The team's origins can be traced to the Pittsburgh Filipinos a short-lived minor league club in the outlaw United States Baseball League in 1912. The team was known as the Pittsburgh Filipinos in honor of their manager, Deacon Phillippe, a former pitcher with the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Filipinos finished in first place during the league's inaugural season, which lasted only one month, with a 19-7 record. The team move into the Federal League, which was still a minor league in 1913 and were renamed the Stogies.
The 1884 Chicago Browns/Pittsburgh Stogies finished with a 41–50 record (34–39 while in Chicago, 7–11 while in Allegheny City) in the Union Association, finishing in sixth place. This was the only season the team existed, and indeed the only season the Union Association existed. The team moved from Chicago to Allegheny City (today a part of Pittsburgh's North Shore) after their game of August 22. The team folded completely after their game of September 18, which was about a month before the 1884 season was scheduled to be over.
View of field at Henley Field The ballpark was renovated prior to the 2002 season at a cost of $250,000. Henley was renovated to enable the Lakeland Tigers to play at the historic ballpark during the 2002 season. while their home field, Joker Marchant Stadium (which is also the current spring training home of the Detroit Tigers), was renovated during the 2002 season. Henley Field was used as the home ballpark of the fictional Class D Tampico Stogies in the 1987 HBO movie Long Gone which starred William Petersen and Virginia Madsen.
28–34 Yale's gang engaged in Black Hand extortion activities and ran a string of brothels. Their gang became the first new-style Mafia "family" which included Italians from all regions and could work in partnership with other ethnic groups if it was good for business. Yale's "services" to his customers included offering "protection" to local merchants and controlling food services for restaurants, as well as ice deliveries for Brooklyn residents. Yale's notorious sideline was his line of cigars, foul-smelling stogies packaged in boxes that bore his smiling face.
Born in Gordonsville, Tennessee, Bridges attended the University of Tennessee, and after having a 20-strikeout game for the minor league Wheeling Stogies in 1929, he joined the Tigers in 1930, inducing Babe Ruth to ground out on his first major league pitch. On August 5, 1932, he came within one out of throwing a perfect game. With two outs in the ninth inning, and the Washington Senators trailing 13–0, the Senators pitcher was due to bat. Washington manager Walter Johnson sent pinch hitter Dave Harris to bat, who led the AL that season with 14 pinch hits.
The Alleghenys played at the second incarnation of the park for the first part of the 1883 season, but after the game of June 9, the club decided to return to Exposition Park I, starting with the game of June 12. The Allegheny club abandoned Expo II in 1884, moving to Recreation Park, which was several blocks north and out of the flood plain. The final usage of Expo II for baseball came in the last week of August, 1884, where the struggling Union Association club dubbed the Pittsburgh Stogies finished out their schedule after moving from Chicago.
Despite pitching to a 14–1 win–loss record in 1899, Kansas City released Stricklett to the Wheeling Stogies of the Class-B Interstate League in 1900. Stricklett split the 1900 season with Wheeling and the Toledo Mud Hens, also of the Interstate League, pitching to a 13-8 record. In 1901, Stricklett pitched for the Toledo Swamp Angels of the Western Association and Sacramento Senators of the California League, compiling a 27-22 record. In 1902, he pitched for the Newark Sailors of the Class-A Eastern League and the Sacramento Gilt Edges of the California League, finishing the season with a 23-22 record.
29, § 67, that taxed railroad bridges. The court's decision stated: "A railroad bridge across a navigable river forming the boundary line between two states is not, by reason of being an instrument of interstate commerce, exempt from taxation by either state upon the part within it." Following the death of Judge Joseph R. Paull in 1899, Melvin was appointed by Governor George W. Atkinson to fill the unexpired term of Paull's judicial seat with the unanimous urging of members of the judicial district's bar. On June 3, 1900, Melvin granted an injunction that prevented the Wheeling Stogies baseball team from playing Sunday games in Wheeling.
The first week of the season opened up on September 26, but the Pros did not have a game scheduled that week, and their season is denoted as beginning in week 2. The Pros played nine games against APFA teams and two against non-APFA teams; they played a total of six games at home. The two non-APFA teams the Pros would play in week two and four when the Pros played against the Wheeling Stogies and the Cincinnati Celts, respectively. In week seven, a game was scheduled to play at home against the Detroit Heralds, but the game was cancelled due to rain.
The Stogies can be traced back to 1877 and the city's first professional team known as Wheeling Standard, which featured Jack Glasscock and Chappy Lane. Then in 1887 the city once again fielded a new team known simply in the record books as Wheeling. However, the following season, Wheeling came to be called the "Nail City" for its nail industry, creating the Wheeling Nailers, a team name which even today is used for the city's professional ice hockey team. The team was also known as the Wheeling National Citys, and in 1895 as the Wheeling Mountaineers, which consisted of future major leaguers: Tom O'Brien and Dewey McDougal.
The South Bend Green Stockings were Charter members of the Class B Central League in 1903. With a record of 88–50, the Green Stockings finished 2nd in the Central League. The Green Stockings' choice as manager was Angus Grant, who had managed the semi–professional team of the same name that preceded the 1903 Green Stockings. Grant would begin an eight-year tenure as South Bend manager, with 504 total wins. South Bend finished 1.0 games behind the 1st place Fort Wayne Railroaders and ahead of the Anderson/Grand Rapids Orphans (48–92), Dayton Veterans (61–76) Evansville River Rats (64–68), Marion Oilworkers (71–65), Terre Haute Hottentots (58–80) and Wheeling Stogies (69–68).
Hengel served as a single-season manager for four different teams, three of them in the minor leagues. His minor league teams were the Quincy Quincys (Quincy, Illinois) of the Northwestern League in 1883, the Hastings Hustlers (Hastings, Nebraska) of the Western League in 1887, and the Hamilton, Ohio, team of the Tri-State League in 1889. Records for these minor league teams are incomplete. Baseball records further indicate that Hengel also appeared as a player for Hamilton in 1889, but no statistics are available. In 1884, the only season of the Union Association, considered to have been a major league, Hengel was the first manager of the Chicago Browns/Pittsburgh Stogies.
He had one hit and five at bats and had no errors and an assist on his only outfield chance. He concluded his major league career with a perfect 1.000 fielding percentage on seven chances. In addition to his two brief stints in the majors, Bashang played 18 seasons of minor league baseball from 1910 to 1927, including stints with the Junction City Soldiers (1910), Lexington Colts (1911-1912), Saginaw Ducks (1913-1915), South Bend Benders (1916-1917), Omaha Rourkes (1918-1919), Evansville Evas (1919-1921), Saginaw Aces (1923-1925), Wilkes-Barre Barons (1927), and the Wheeling Stogies (1927). He also served as a minor league manager at Evansville in 1920 and 1921.
Rooney attended St. Peter's Catholic School in Pittsburgh, Duquesne University Prep School, then several semesters at Indiana Normal School before completing a final year at Temple University on an athletic scholarship. After graduation, he dedicated himself to sports, winning the AAU welterweight belt in 1918 and tried out for the 1920 Olympic Team, he played minor league baseball for both the Flint, Michigan "Vehicles" and the Wheeling, West Virginia "Stogies". In 1925 he served as Wheeling's player-manager and led the Middle Atlantic League in games, hits, runs, stolen bases and finished second in batting average (his brother Dan Rooney, Wheeling's catcher that year, finished third). Art also played halfback for the semi-pro Pittsburgh "Hope Harvey" and "Majestic Radio" clubs which he later took over and renamed the J.P. Rooneys before purchasing an NFL franchise for $2,500 in 1933.
Foreman was born in Baltimore, Maryland. His younger brother, Brownie Foreman, also was a major league pitcher. A well-traveled fastball pitcher, Foreman played for 11 different clubs in five different leagues. He entered the majors in 1884 in the short-lived Union Association, dividing his playing time between the Chicago Browns/Pittsburgh Stogies and Kansas City Cowboys before jumping to the American Association with the Baltimore Orioles (1885, 1889). He played later for the Cincinnati Reds of the National League (1890), Washington Statesmen (AA, 1891), Washington Senators (NL, 1892), Baltimore Orioles (NL, 1892), New York Giants (NL, 1893), Cincinnati Reds (NL, 1895–1896), Boston Americans (American League, 1901) and Baltimore Orioles (AL, 1901–1902). Foreman enjoyed three solid years from 1889 to 1891, averaging 18 wins and 319 innings pitched per season, with career-highs 23 wins and 414 innings in 1889.
Edward Benson "Ed" Lytle (March 10, 1862 – December 21, 1950), also known as "Dad" Lytle and "Pop" Lytle, was a professional baseball player and manager whose playing career spanned 12 seasons, including one in Major League Baseball with the Chicago Colts and the Pittsburgh Alleghenys in 1890. Over his major league career, Lytle, a second baseman and outfielder, batted .136 with three runs, eight hits and one doubles in 16 games played. He also played in the minor leagues with Colorado Springs, the Wheeling National Citys/Nailers, the Portland Gladiators, the Class-B Los Angeles Seraphs, the Class-A Kansas City Cowboys, the Los Angeles Angels, the Binghamton Bingoes, the Allentown Buffaloes, the Class-A Wilkes-Barre Coal Barons, the Class-B Hartford Bluebirds, the Class-A Rochester Brownies, the Class-A Montreal Royals, the Class-B New Castle Quakers, the Class-B Wheeling Nailers, the Class-A Milwaukee Brewers, the Class-B Fort Wayne Indians and the Class-B Wheeling Stogies.
Akron Pros' 1920 team photo Pollard and most of the top 1919 players planned to return to the Pros in 1920. The team opened the season at League Park in early October by defeating the Wheeling Stogies, 43–0. Al Nesser, one of the infamous football-playing Nesser Brothers, scored three touchdowns on fumble recoveries. The following week the Pros defeated the Columbus Panhandles 37–0 using former guard, Frank McCormick as a wingback. After a 13–0 win over the Cincinnati Celts, the Pros played the Cleveland Tigers, a team composed mainly of ex-stars from the Massillon Tigers. Bob Nash, who played for Massillon in 1919, broke up a Stan Cofall punt resulting in an Akron touchdown and a final score of 7–0. The Pros then shocked the league by beating the Canton Bulldogs, who were considered the top team in the nation in 1920 with stars Jim Thorpe, Joe Guyon, Pete Calac and Pete Henry, 10–0. However, after a rained out game against the Detroit Heralds, the Pros played a reorganized Tigers team that held the Pros to a 7–7 tie.

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