The McKeesport Tubers was the name of several minor league baseball teams located in McKeesport, Pennsylvania between 1890 and 1940.
10-835: McKeesport's first team was played as an unnamed team, in 1890, and represented the city in the Tri-State League . In 1905 the city fielded a team for the Ohio–Pennsylvania League , the McKeesport Colts . In 1907 the team was once again fielded this time as the Tubers, a member of the Pennsylvania–Ohio–Maryland League . A year later the team returned to the Ohio–Pennsylvania League where they continued to play until 1912, missing only
20-711: A team called the Pomonkey Giants associated with a Pomonkey social club in Pomonkey Maryland. They played teams in Berry Road near La Plata, Maryland and in Hughesville among others. It was very much a rural league and almost totally black players. The team is mentioned in the obituary of a player and coach, George Dyson, Jr in 2020. One of the most extensive discussions of this Tri-State League explains how integration of Major League baseball led to
30-761: The McKeesport Braves . In 1939 they were listed as the McKeesport Little Pirates , and as the McKeesport Little Braves in 1940. A team that also represented the city in the Central Basketball League was also named the Tubers . This article about a baseball team in Pennsylvania is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Tri-State League The Tri-State League
40-733: The Pennsylvania State Association . The club was also affiliated with the Boston Braves and the Boston Red Sox during their existence. In 1939, the team once again became an affiliate of the Pirates. The following season the Pirates relocated the team, to Oil City , and became the Oil City Oilers . The team's name changed several times over their brief existence. In 1935 the team was known as
50-767: The Phillies' ball park Charles F. Carpenter was president from 1906 to 1913. During the 1920s, two versions of the Tri-State League briefly existed: a 1924 loop with clubs in Iowa , Nebraska and South Dakota , and a 1925–1926 association located in Tennessee , Mississippi and Arkansas . In the late 1930s another iteration existed for two years, composed of six teams from Wisconsin , Illinois and Indiana in its first season, and just four teams excluding Indiana in its second. The most recent incarnation of
60-667: The 1911 season. The McKeesport Royals played for one season in the Pennsylvania–West Virginia League in 1914. The team posted a 2-2 record, before disbanding, with the Charleroi team on May 26, 1914. The league folded shortly afterwards on June 1, 1914. The city did not host another team until 1934 when the Tubers were resurrected as the Class D affiliate of the Pittsburgh Pirates . The team played in
70-539: The defection of clubs like Charlotte to higher-classification loops—eventually took its toll on the Tri-State League. In its last season, 1955 , there were only four clubs in the league. Its last champion was the Spartanburg Peaches, an affiliate of the Cleveland Indians . There were teams in southern Maryland that played in a "Tri-State League" in at least the 60s, 70s, and the 80s. There was
80-579: The demise of the Negro leagues . It became neighborhood baseball. 1955 in baseball The following are the baseball events of the year 1955 throughout the world. Winter Leagues Before the Athletics arrive in town, the Kansas City Monarchs move their base of operations to Grand Rapids, Michigan . They retain the name "Kansas City Monarchs" and continue in
90-525: The league was the post- World War II Tri-State, a Class B circuit with clubs in Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina . This league, which played from 1946–1955, typically included clubs in Charlotte , Asheville , Knoxville , Rock Hill and Spartanburg ; most of its teams were affiliated with Major League Baseball farm systems . The attendance crisis in the minor leagues of the 1950s—and
100-666: Was the name of six different circuits in American minor league baseball . The first league of that name played for four years (1887–1890) and consisted of teams in Ohio , Michigan and West Virginia . The second league, played from 1904–1914, and had member clubs in Delaware , New Jersey and Pennsylvania . The League contested its 1904 championship game in Philadelphia between York and Williamsport and attracted 3,500 fans to
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