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30-1222: Jack Sullivan may refer to: Jack Sullivan (baseball) (1873–1924), American baseball catcher Jack Sullivan (basketball) (1935–2010), American basketball coach Jack Sullivan (executive) , English football executive Jack Sullivan (film director) (1893–1946), assistant film director Jack Sullivan (footballer, born 1879) (1879–1957), Australian rules footballer for Essendon Jack Sullivan (footballer, born 1919) (1919–1990), Australian rules footballer for Richmond Jack Sullivan (Irish footballer) , Ireland international footballer Jack Sullivan (journalist) (1913–1992), Canadian journalist and writer Jack Sullivan (literary scholar) (born 1946), American literary scholar, essayist and writer Jack Sullivan (lacrosse) (1870–?), Canadian lacrosse player Jack Sullivan (rugby union) (1915–1990), New Zealand rugby union player and coach Jack Sullivan Jr. (1933–2002), Australian rules footballer for Carlton See also [ edit ] John Sullivan (disambiguation) Jackie Sullivan (1918–1992), baseball player Jacquie O'Sullivan (born 1960), British singer [REDACTED] Topics referred to by

60-638: A Class B league in 1900. Charter teams were the Denver Grizzlies , Des Moines Hawkeyes , Omaha Omahogs , Pueblo Indians , Sioux City Cornhuskers and St. Joseph Saints . The teams in Pueblo and Sioux City folded. New teams in Colorado Springs, Colorado , and St. Paul, Minnesota , formed and joined the League. Teams from Kansas City, Missouri , and Minneapolis, Minnesota moved from

90-698: A major league catcher. He batted and threw right-handed. Sullivan in Chicago in 1873. He began playing baseball on the Chicago sandlots. Sullivan began playing professional baseball in 1899 with a club in St. Thomas, Ontario . In 1900, he played for the Kansas City Blues of the American League (one year before the league was recognized as a major league). He played catcher and first base for

120-783: A new top tier, Class AA, was created; in 1936, a second tier, Class A1, came into being. One year later, the existing Western League disbanded after it ended the 1937 season with only five teams, the Rock Island Islanders , disbanded on July 7. Then, in 1946, the Class AA leagues were renamed AAA, and the A1 loops were renamed AA. Thus the Western League – whose clubs were located in the Great Plains, Rocky Mountain States,

150-566: A practice game of baseball at Shaw Field, Macalester College , Saint Paul, Minnesota . Heart disease, aggravated by strenuous exercise, was the cause of death. He was buried at Calvary Catholic Cemetery in Evanston, Illinois . Western League (1900%E2%80%931958) Its earliest progenitor, the Western League of 1885–1899 , was the predecessor of the American League . Later, during the 20th century, there were four incarnations of

180-477: A record of 18–18, on June 2. The League suspended operations on July 7 due to World War I. The Hutchinson team folded. A new team was formed in Tulsa, Oklahoma , and joined the League. Tulsa lead St. Joseph 3 games to 1 in the championship series when the series was cancelled due to bad weather. Wichita's Joe Wilhoit had a 69-game hitting streak, which remains the professional baseball record. Joplin moved to

210-555: A record of 30–44. The St. Joseph team moved to the Western Association . A new team in Lincoln, Nebraska , formed and joined the League. Teams from Topeka, Kansas , and Wichita, Kansas , joined from the Western Association . The Pueblo team folded. A new team in St. Joseph, Missouri , formed and joined the League. The Wichita team, with a record of 15–9, moved to Pueblo, Colorado on May 22, Their record there

240-683: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Jack Sullivan (baseball) John Eugene Sullivan (February 16, 1873 – June 5, 1924), was an American baseball catcher . He played professional baseball from 1900 to 1910, including two seasons in Major League Baseball for the Detroit Tigers in 1905 and the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1908. He collected 59 putouts and 24 assists, and committed 3 errors, in 13 games as

270-670: The American Association . New teams in Joplin, Missouri , and Topeka, Kansas , formed and joined the League. Wichita, with a record of 6–13, moved to Muskogee on June 6, keeping the Oilers name, where they had a record of 20–82. Hutchinson, with a record of 25–32, moved on July 7 to Bartlesville, where they had a record of 26–38. St. Joseph beat Topeka 4 games to 1. St. Joseph lost to the Davenport Blue Sox from

300-673: The American League . The Minneapolis and St. Paul teams joined the American Association . New teams in Milwaukee, Wisconsin , and Peoria, Illinois , formed and joined the League. The teams in Milwaukee, Kansas City, and Peoria folded. the Sioux City, Iowa team from the Iowa–South Dakota League joined the League. The Colorado Springs team, with a record of 22–48, moved to Pueblo, Colorado on July 15, where they had

330-550: The Great Depression . Des Moines then rejoined the reborn Western circuit when Senator Edwin C. Johnson from Colorado founded it in 1947; this team, a Chicago Cubs affiliate called the Des Moines Bruins , then played for the final 12 years of the league's existence. Minor league baseball went unclassified through 1901. From 1902 until 1911, Class A was the highest level in the minor leagues. In 1912,

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360-774: The Kansas City Star that Pittsburgh's owner "offered me the same salary I was making in Kansas City, and that didn't go with me. . . . I'd rather play ball right here in this league where all my friends are and the only thing that would've kept me in Pittsburgh was more money." Sullivan concluded his playing career playing in the New England League at the end of the 1910 season. Sullivan moved to Minneapolis in approximately 1919. In June 1924, he collapsed and died within three minutes while playing in

390-573: The Mississippi Valley League 4 games to 2. Bartlesville, Joplin, Muskogee, and Springfield moved to the Western Association . The teams from Davenport Blue Sox , and Rock Island Islanders joined from the Mississippi Valley League . New teams in Cedar Rapids, Iowa , and Sioux City, Iowa formed and joined the League. St. Joseph beat Sioux City 3 games to 1 in the first round of playoffs. Davenport beat Des Moines by

420-566: The St. Paul Saints of the American Association. He spent three years with the Saints and helped lead the club to three consecutive American Association championships from 1903 to 1905. Sullivan was acquired by the Detroit Tigers after the 1904 season. The Tiger sent him a contract with a salary of $ 1,800 for the 1905 season. Sullivan tore the contract into pieces on seeing the proposed salary. He eventually reached terms with

450-724: The Western Association . A new team formed in Denver, Colorado , and joined the League. Tulsa beat Mobile of the Southern Association 4 games to 1, with 1 tie Sioux City moved to the Tri-State League . Lincoln joined from the Nebraska State League . Springfield of the Three-I League led Des Moines 3 games to 1 when the series was cancelled due to bad weather. St. Joseph moved to

480-665: The Western Association . A new team in Amarillo, Texas formed and joined. Waco of the Texas League beat Tulsa 3 games to 2, with 1 tie. Lincoln moved to the Nebraska State League . A new team in Pueblo, Colorado , formed and joined the League. Tulsa beat Oklahoma City 4 games to 1, with 1 tie, for the championship. Amarillo folded. The Topeka, Kansas team from the Western Association joined. The Tulsa team folded. A new team formed in St. Joseph, Missouri and joined

510-441: The American Association. He remained with Kansas City for four seasons, batting .162 in 1906, .223 in 1907, .228 in 1908, and .219 in 1909. Late in the 1908 season, Sullivan was sold to the Pittsburgh Pirates . He appeared in his only game for Pittsburgh on September 5, 1908, and had only a single plate appearance. He refused to sign a contract at the proposed rate of $ 350 per month and was sent back to Kansas City. Sullivan told

540-687: The Blues, compiling a .227 batting average in seven games. He joined the Denver Grizzlies of the Western League in the middle of the 1900 season and remained with the club through the 1901 season. He appeared in 58 games for the Grizzlies in 1900 and compiled a .329 batting average with five triples and six stolen bases. He spent the 1902 season with the Helena Senators of the Pacific Northwest League . In 1903, he joined

570-441: The League. Des Moines Demons beat Wichita 4 games to 2 for the championship. Topeka moved to the Western Association . The Tulsa team joined. Oklahoma City beat Tulsa 2 games to 1 for the second half title. Tulsa beat Oklahoma City 4 games to none for the championship. Denver & Pueblo folded. Oklahoma City and Tulsa moved to the Texas League . The teams from Hutchinson, Kansas and Springfield, Missouri joined from

600-523: The Tigers and made his major league debut on April 19, 1905. However, he appeared in only 13 games for the club, compiling a .156 batting average and a .250 on-base percentage in 32 at bats. He also gave up four passed balls in a game against Chicago on April 23. In late May 1905, the Tigers released Sullivan back to St. Paul. In 1906, Sullivan joined for the Kansas City Blues, then playing in

630-636: The Upper Midwest and the Upper Southwest – was a top-level minor league until 1911, then two levels below Major League Baseball through 1935, and three steps removed in 1936–37 and when it was revived in 1947 during the post-war minor league baseball boom. For several years in the 1910s, the Western League champion played a postseason series against the champion of the Class AA American Association for supremacy of

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660-652: The Western League, including the Western League of 1939–1941 (succeeding the Nebraska State League ) that played at the Class D level, and an independent baseball league that operated as the Western Baseball League from 1995 to 2002. The league's longest-serving franchise was located in Des Moines, Iowa , which joined the WL in 1900 and played continuously through 1937, when the league shut down during

690-533: The central states. The Western League reformed in 1947 with six teams: Denver Bears , Des Moines Bruins , Lincoln A's , Omaha Cardinals , Pueblo Dodgers and Sioux City Soos . All six clubs were affiliated with major league farm systems . The WL expanded to eight teams in 1950 , adding the Colorado Springs Sky Sox and Wichita Indians , but the encroachment of televised baseball and major league franchise shifts into former AAA cities hit

720-471: The first round of the playoffs. St. Joseph beat Sioux City 4 games to 3 for the championship. Keokuk and St. Joseph folded. New teams formed in Omaha, Nebraska , and Waterloo, Iowa , and joined the League. Omaha moved to Rock Island on August 18. Rock Island folded July 7. Cedar Rapids and Waterloo moved to the Three-I League . Sioux City moved to the Nebraska State League . Davenport, Des Moines, and

750-898: The league hard. In 1955 , the Western League's two strongest franchises, the Denver Bears and the Omaha Cardinals , were admitted to the AAA American Association . The WL continued for four more seasons before folding in the autumn of 1958. Its last champion, the Colorado Springs Sky Sox, attracted only 61,000 fans for the season. In addition to the founding clubs and the Sky Sox, the postwar WL had teams in Albuquerque , Amarillo , Topeka , and Wichita . The new Western League formed as

780-475: The same number. In the championship, St. Joseph beat Davenport 4 games to 3. Topeka folded. A new team in Keokuk, Iowa formed and joined the League. Omaha, with a record of 22–15, moved to Council Bluffs, Iowa on June 25, where they had a record of 33–31. Rock Island folded July 17. Council Bluffs folded August 27. Sioux City beat Davenport 3 games to none, and St. Joseph beat Des Moines 3 games to none, in

810-407: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jack_Sullivan&oldid=1138838523 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

840-417: The second half title. Des Moines defeated Hutchinson 4 games to 2 for the championship. The Denver and Lincoln teams folded. New teams in Sioux City, Iowa , and Topeka, Kansas , formed and joined the League. Hutchinson, with a record of 14–19, moved to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on June 2, where they compiled a record of 19–18. Topeka, with a record of 19–13, moved to Hutchinson, Kansas, where they compiled

870-406: Was 2–10. Louisville of the American Association defeated Omaha 4 games to 1. The Topeka team folded. A new team in Joplin, Missouri formed and joined the League. Colorado Springs moved back to Wichita. St. Joseph, with a record of 34–56, moved to Hutchinson, where their record was 32–24, on July 24. Sioux City moved to St. Joseph on August 5. Hutchinson defeated Joplin 3 games to none for

900-512: Was 77–66. The Pueblo team moved back to Wichita, Kansas . Denver defeated the Minneapolis team of the American Association 4 games to 1. Milwaukee of the American Association defeated Denver 4 games to 2. Wichita Jobbers renamed Wichita Wolves. Indianapolis of the American Association defeated Denver 4 games to 2. The Wichita team, with a record of 58–84, moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado on September 10. Their record there

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