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Bismarck-Mandan Pards
The Bismarck-Mandan Pards were a minor league baseball team based in Bismarck, North Dakota in partnership with neighboring Mandan, North Dakota. The Bismarck–Mandan Pards played as members of the Northern League from 1962 to 1964 and in 1966. Previous Bismarck minor league teams played as members of the 1922 Dakota League, 1923 North Dakota League and the Manitoba-Dakota League from 1955 to 1957. The Bismarck–Mandan Pards were a minor league affiliate of the Minnesota Twins from 1962 to 1964 and Houston Astros in 1966. Bismarck hosted home minor league games at the Bismarck Municipal Ballpark Baseball Hall of Fame member Ray Dandridge played for the 1955 Bismarck Barons and led the league in hits at age 41. History Bismarck hosted numerous semi-pro and local teams, beginning in the late 1800's and continuing through the 1930's. The Bismarck teams had much success and integrated rosters that included Baseball Hall of Fame member, Satchel Paige. Dakota League (1922) Min ...
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Class A (baseball)
Class A, also known as Single-A and sometimes as Low-A, is the fourth-highest level of play in Minor League Baseball in the United States, below Triple-A, Double-A, and High-A. There are 30 teams classified at the Single-A level, one for each team in Major League Baseball (MLB), organized into three leagues: the California League, Carolina League, and Florida State League. History Class A was originally the highest level of Minor League Baseball, beginning with the earliest classifications, established circa 1890. Teams within leagues at this level had their players' contracts protected and the players were subject to reserve clauses. When the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues – the formal name of Minor League Baseball – was founded in 1901, Class A remained the highest level, restricted to leagues with cities that had an aggregate population of over a million people. Entering the 1902 season, the only Class A leagues were the Eastern League and the ...
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Charlie Boardman
Charles Louis Boardman (March 27, 1893 – August 10, 1968) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher. He played for the Philadelphia Athletics during the and seasons and the St. Louis Cardinals during the season. He managed in the Dakota League in 1922 for the Valley City Hi-Liners A valley is an elongated low area often running between hills or mountains, which will typically contain a river or stream running from one end to the other. Most valleys are formed by erosion of the land surface by rivers or streams over .... References 1893 births 1968 deaths Major League Baseball pitchers Philadelphia Athletics players Baseball players from New York (state) Minor league baseball managers Waterbury Contenders players St. Paul Apostles players Minneapolis Millers (baseball) players Toledo Iron Men players New Rockford-Carrington Twins players Valley City Hi-Liners players People from Seneca Falls, New York Bismarck Capitals players {{US-base ...
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Minot Mallards
The Minot Mallards were a minor league baseball team based in Minot, North Dakota. Earlier Minot teams preceded the Mallards and played as members of the 1917 Northern League and 1923 North Dakota League. Beginning play in 1950, the Mallards played as members of the Manitoba-Dakota League (1950–1957), Northern League (1958–1960, 1962) and Prairie League (1995–1997), winning seven league championships in their history. The Mallards hosted minor league home games at Corbett Field and were a minor league affiliate of the Cleveland Indians from 1958 to 1960 and Kansas City Athletics in 1962. Baseball Hall of Fame member Satchel Paige played for the 1950 Minot Mallards. History Northern League 1917/North Dakota League 1923 Minor league baseball in Minot, North Dakota began with a partial season in 1917. The 1917 Minot Why Nots joined the Class D level Northern League. The Northern League folded on July 4, 1917. The Minot Why Nots finished the 1917 season with a record of 19� ...
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Al Cihocki
Albert Joseph Cihocki (May 7, 1924 – March 27, 2014) was a Major League Baseball infielder who played for one season. He played for the Cleveland Indians from April 17, 1945, to September 22, 1945. Cihocki was born in Nanticoke, Pennsylvania, where he played sandlot ball with Steve Bilko, his cousin who also went on to play in the major leagues, as well as Pete Gray. He originally tried out for the Philadelphia Phillies organization in 1941 and Wilkes-Barre Barons in 1942 but failed to make the cut for either team. Cihocki then joined the Batavia Clippers as a third baseman, where he had a batting average of .342 and was named to the New York–Penn League's All-Star team. After finishing the season, he joined the United States Coast Guard, and served for two years at the United States Coast Guard Yard in Curtis Bay, Baltimore. Early in 1945, he received a medical discharge from the Coast Guard, and resumed his professional baseball career with the Cleveland Indians or ...
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Dickinson Packers
The Dickinson Packers were a minor league baseball team based in Dickinson, North Dakota. The Packers played as members of the Independent level Manitoba-Dakota League in 1955 and 1956, reaching the league finals in 1955. Dickinson hosted home minor league games at the ballpark known today as Dakota Community Bank & Trust Ballpark. History Minor league baseball began in Dickinson, North Dakota in 1955, when the Dickinson Packers began play as members of the four-team, independent level Manitoba-Dakota League, known as the Mandak League. The Bismarck Barons, Minot Mallards and Williston Oilers teams joined Dickinson in league play. As a professional independent league not affiliated with the minor league baseball, Mandak League teams often paid players better than minor league teams. Some players left minor league baseball and played for teams in independent leagues like the Mandak League. A player in the lower-level minor leagues earned about $150 per month, while Mandak Lea ...
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Williston Oilers
The Williston Oilers were a minor league baseball team based in Williston, North Dakota. The Oilers played as members of the Independent level Manitoba-Dakota League from 1954 to 1957, winning the 1956 league championship. Williston hosted home minor league games at Ardean Aafeldt Stadium. History Minor league baseball began in Williston, North Dakota in 1954, when the Williston "Oilers" began play as members of the four-team, independent level Manitoba-Dakota League, known as the "Mandak League." The Brandon Greys, Carman Cardinals and Minot Mallards teams joined the Oilers in beginning play in the league. The new Williston franchise replaced the Winnipeg Royals in the league. The Williston use of the "Oilers" nickname corresponds to local history and industry in the era. Williston is home to numerous oil fields, first discovered in 1936 and is the namesake of the Williston Basin. The Mandak League was a professional independent minor league that was not affiliated with t ...
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Chet Brewer
Chester Arthur Brewer (January 14, 1907 – March 26, 1990) was an American right-handed pitcher in baseball's Negro leagues. Born in Leavenworth, Kansas, he played for the Kansas City Monarchs, and from 1957 to 1974 he scouted for the Pittsburgh Pirates.Chet Brewer
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Brewer toiled on the mounds of black baseball for twenty-four years with an assortment of teams throughout the world, including China, Japan, the Philippines, Hawaii, Canada, Mexico, Panama, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Santo Domingo, and in forty-four of the forty-eight continental United States. While with the , Brewer was a part of legendary starting rotations including

Barney Morris
Barney Morris (June 3, 1910 – May 24, 1962) was an American baseball player in the Negro leagues. A skillful pitcher, he played for the Monroe Monarchs, the Bismarck Churchills, the Pittsburgh Crawfords, and the New York Cubans The New York Cubans were a Negro league baseball team that played during the 1930s and from 1939 to 1950. Despite playing in the Negro leagues, the team occasionally employed white-skinned Hispanic baseball players as well, because Hispanics in .... He died in New York in May 1962. References Sources * External links anBaseball-Reference Black Baseball and Mexican League statsanSeamheads 1910 births 1962 deaths African-American baseball players American expatriate baseball players in Mexico Cincinnati Tigers (baseball) players Industriales de Monterrey players Kansas City Monarchs players Mexican League baseball pitchers Monroe Monarchs players New Orleans Crescent Stars players New York Cubans players Newark Eagles players Pittsbu ...
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Quincy Trouppe
Quincy Thomas Trouppe (December 25, 1912 – August 10, 1993) was an American professional baseball player and an amateur boxing champion. He was a catcher in the Negro leagues from 1930 to 1949. He was a native of Dublin, Georgia. Early life He was born Quincy Thomas Troupe on December 25, 1912. He later changed the spelling to Trouppe in 1946. Career He also played in the Mexican League, and the Canadian Provincial League. His teams included St. Louis Stars, Detroit Wolves, Homestead Grays, Kansas City Monarchs, Chicago American Giants, Indianapolis ABC's/St. Louis Stars, Cleveland Buckeyes (whom he managed to Negro American League titles in 1945 and 1947), New York Cubans, and Bismarcks (a/k/a Bismarck Churchills). He played in Latin America for fourteen winter seasons and barnstormed with black all-star teams playing against white major league players. He managed the Santurce Crabbers in the Puerto Rican winter league, winning the 1947-48 season championship. Trouppe ...
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Ted Radcliffe
Theodore Roosevelt "Double Duty" Radcliffe (July 7, 1902 – August 11, 2005) was a professional baseball player in the Negro leagues. An accomplished two-way player, he played as a pitcher and a catcher, became a manager, and in his old age became a popular ambassador for the game. He is one of only a handful of professional baseball players who lived past their 100th birthdays, next to Red Hoff (who lived to 107) and fellow Negro leaguer Silas Simmons (who lived to age 103). Newspaperman Damon Runyon coined the nickname "Double Duty" because Radcliffe played as a catcher and as a pitcher in the successive games of a 1932 doubleheader between the Pittsburgh Crawfords and the New York Black Yankees. In the first of the two games at Yankee Stadium, Radcliffe caught the pitcher Satchel Paige for a shutout and then pitched a shutout in the second game. Runyon wrote that Radcliffe "was worth the price of two admissions." Radcliffe considered his year with the 1932 Pittsburgh Cra ...
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Bismarck Churchills
The Bismarck team was an integrated semi-professional baseball team based in Bismarck, North Dakota, in the 1930s. The team played independently of any league because its mixed-race roster was a problem in a period of segregation, and because there were no formal leagues at the semi-professional level in North Dakota in the 1930s. The team was owned by Neil Churchill, a local car dealer who owned the city's Chrysler dealership, and regularly played against Valley City, Jamestown, and other teams across North Dakota and Manitoba. The club won the 1935 National Baseball Conference semi-pro baseball tournament in Wichita, Kansas. Churchill raided other teams of their top players and stockpiled a team of Negro league and minor league all-stars. Hall of Fame Negro leaguers Satchel Paige and Hilton Smith led the team, along with Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe and, of the white Sioux City Cowboys, Vernon "Moose" Johnson. Although the club is erroneously recalled as the "Churchills" tod ...
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Hilton Smith
Hilton Lee Smith (February 27, 1907 – November 18, 1983) was an American right-handed pitcher in Negro league baseball. He pitched alongside Satchel Paige for the Kansas City Monarchs between 1932 and 1948. He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2001. Early life Born in Giddings, Texas, Smith began his career in black baseball's equivalent of the minor leagues with the Austin Black Senators in Austin, Texas. Smith made the dean's list as a student at Prairie View A&M College in 1928 and 1929. He was an outfielder in his first college season and a pitcher in his second year. His big league debut was with the Monroe Monarchs of Monroe, Louisiana in 1932. In 1934, Smith wed Louise Humphrey. They had two children. Semi-pro career From 1935 to 1936, Smith pitched for the Bismarck semi-professional team organized by Neil Churchill. In 1935 his teammates included Satchel Paige, Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe, Quincy Trouppe, Barney Morris, and Chet Brewer. ...
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