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The Edmonton Grays were a
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team that played in
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. They played a single season in the
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in 1907. They finished second of four teams in the league, with a 50-35 record, 5.5 games behind the league champion Medicine Hat Hatters. Frank Gray served as the team's owner and namesake, and pushed to have Diamond Park built for the team. The WCL folded after the season, so 1907 was the team's only year of existence. A new Edmonton team, the
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, would play in a reformed Western Canada League beginning in 1909. The Grays were the second baseball team in Edmonton, after the Edmonton Legislatures.


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