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Philadelphia
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In 1682, William Penn, an English Quaker, founded the city to serve as capital of the Pennsylvania Colony. Philadelphia was one of the capitals in the Revolutionary War. In the 19th century, Philadelphia became an industrial center. It became a destination for African-Americans in the Great Migration. The areas many universities and colleges make Philadelphia a top international study destination, as the city has evolved into an educational, with a gross domestic product of $388 billion, Philadelphia ranks ninth among world cities and fourth in the nation. Philadelphia is the center of activity in Pennsylvania and is home to seven Fortune 1000 companies. The Philadelphia skyline is growing, with a market of almost 81,900 commercial properties in 2016 including several prominent skyscrapers. The city is known for its arts, culture, and rich history, Philadelphia has more outdoor sculptures and murals than any other American city. Fairmount Park, when combined with the adjacent Wissahickon Valley Park in the watershed, is one of the largest contiguous urban park areas in the United States. The 67 National Historic Landmarks in the city helped account for the $10 billion generated by tourism, Philadelphia is the only World Heritage City in the United States. Before Europeans arrived, the Philadelphia area was home to the Lenape Indians in the village of Shackamaxon, the Lenape are a Native American tribe and First Nations band government. They are also called Delaware Indians and their territory was along the Delaware River watershed, western Long Island. Most Lenape were pushed out of their Delaware homeland during the 18th century by expanding European colonies, Lenape communities were weakened by newly introduced diseases, mainly smallpox, and violent conflict with Europeans. Iroquois people occasionally fought the Lenape, surviving Lenape moved west into the upper Ohio River basin. The American Revolutionary War and United States independence pushed them further west, in the 1860s, the United States government sent most Lenape remaining in the eastern United States to the Indian Territory under the Indian removal policy. In the 21st century, most Lenape now reside in the US state of Oklahoma, with communities living also in Wisconsin, Ontario. The Dutch considered the entire Delaware River valley to be part of their New Netherland colony, in 1638, Swedish settlers led by renegade Dutch established the colony of New Sweden at Fort Christina and quickly spread out in the valley. In 1644, New Sweden supported the Susquehannocks in their defeat of the English colony of Maryland
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Wilbert Robinson
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Wilbert Robinson, nicknamed Uncle Robbie, was an American catcher, coach and manager in Major League Baseball. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1945 and he also spent one season,1900, with the St. Louis Cardinals. Over the course of his career, Robinson played 1,316 games as a catcher, which prepared him for his second baseball career as a manager. The star catcher of the Orioles dynasty which won three titles from 1894 to 1896, he compiled a career batting average of.273. Durable behind the plate, he caught a triple-header in 1896 and he also was the first catcher to play directly behind the batter at all times, as the previous practice had been to play farther back when there were fewer than two strikes. A highlight of his career was a seven-hit game June 10,1892. He also batted in 11 runs in game, on September 16,1924, as manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers. While owners of a bowling, billiards and pool hall in Baltimore, Robinson, Robinson and McGraw joined as business partners in the Baltimore Orioles, a team that would debut in the new American League in 1901. McGraw served as player-manager of the AL Orioles in 1901 and the beginning of the 1902 season, Robinson succeeded McGraw as manager of the Orioles. After the season, McGraw enticed Robinson to be his coach from 1903 to 1913. Robinson would not don the managers cap again in the majors until 1914, in his 18 years at the helm of the Brooks, Robinson compiled a record of 1375–1341, including National League championships in 1916 and 1920 – Brooklyns only pennants between 1901 and 1940. Those two clubs lost in the World Series to the Boston Red Sox and Cleveland Indians, respectively and his 1375 NL victories were, at the time, the 3rd-highest total in NL history, trailing only the totals of McGraw and Fred Clarke. Robinson was highly regarded for his ability to draw outstanding performances from his pitching staffs, among the pitchers he guided to success were Joe McGinnity with both Orioles teams and the Giants, Rube Marquard with the Giants, and Dazzy Vance and Burleigh Grimes with the Dodgers. On March 13,1915, at spring training in Daytona Beach, Florida, ruth Law, the aviator, supposedly forgot to bring a baseball and instead dropped a grapefruit, which splattered all over the manager. The grapefruit made such a mess that Robinson thought he had lost his eye because of the acid and he quickly realized that it was a joke when he saw his teammates burst out in laughter. Outfielder Casey Stengel, later a manager himself, is generally believed to have convinced Law to make the switch. From this point on Robinson referred to airplanes as fruit flies, Robinson was manager when Al López started out as a catcher in the majors. Robinson watched Lopez style and finally hollered, Tell that punk he got two hands to catch with, never mind the Fancy Dan stuff
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Road (sports)
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A road game or away game is a sports game where the specified team is not the host and must travel to another venue. Most professional teams represent cities or towns and amateur sports teams often represent academic institutions, each team has a location where it practices during the season and where it hosts games. When a team is not the host, it must travel to games. Thus, when a team is not hosting a game, the team is described as the team, the visiting team, or the away team. The venue in which the game is played is described as the stadium or the road. The host team is said to be the home team, major sporting events, if not held at a neutral venue, are often over several legs at each teams home ground, so that neither team has an advantage over the other. Occasionally, the team may not have to travel very far at all to a road game. These matches often become local derbies, a few times a year, a road team may even be lucky enough to have the road game played at their own home stadium or arena. This is prevalent in college athletics where many schools will play in regional leagues or groundshare. The related term true road game has seen increasing use in U. S. college sports in the 21st century, while regular-season tournaments and other special events have been part of college sports from their creation, the 21st century has seen a proliferation of such events. These are typically held at sites, with some of them taking place outside the contiguous U. S. or even outside the country entirely. In turn, this has led to the use of true road game to refer to contests played at one home venue. In some association football leagues, particularly in Europe, the teams fans sit in their own section. Depending on the stadium, they will either sit in a designated section or be separated from the home fans by a cordon of police officers. However, in the leagues in England, supporters may be free to mix. When games are played at a site, for instance the FA Cup final in England which is always played at Wembley Stadium. This results in each team occupying one half of the stadium and this is different from other sports, particularly in North America, where very few fans travel to games played away from their home stadium. Home and away fans are not separated at these games
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Bill Sharsig
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He lived, worked, and was born in Philadelphia. Sharsig founded the Athletics in September 1880, in 1881, the team went on a barnstorming tour, and Sharsig took on two partners, player Charlie Mason and manager Horace Phillips. After the tour, Phillips jumped ship to the Philadelphia Quakers, a team founded by Al Reach. As co-owner of the team, Bill named himself manager of his team on different occasions. In a total of five seasons,1886, and from 1888 to 1891 and he finished his career with 238 wins and 216 losses for a.524 winning percentage. After the Association folded in 1891, Bill went on to manage the Indianapolis team in the Western League in 1892, Bill died in his hometown of Philadelphia, and is interred there at Mount Vernon Cemetery. Baseball Reference – Career Managerial Statistics
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1890 Rochester Broncos season
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The 1890 Rochester Broncos season was the teams only season in Major League Baseball. In 1889, the team had played in the minor league International Association as the Rochester Jingoes, the Broncos went 63–63 during the season and finished 5th in the American Association. They went 40–22 at home, but 23–41 on the road, after the season, the team returned to the minor leagues, moving to the Eastern Association as the Rochester Hop Bitters. Harry Lyons led the league in at bats and in outs, sandy Griffin was tied for 4th in the league in doubles. Jimmy Knowles was 4th in RBIs, ted Scheffler was 2nd in stolen bases, 4th in hit by pitches, and tied for 4th in bases on balls. Bob Barr was 1st in the league in walks issued and tied for 1st in games lost, Barr was 2nd in the league in games pitched, games started, complete games, batters faced, hits allowed, earned runs and innings pitched. He was 4th in wins and in wild pitches and he was 5th in strikeouts and tied for 5th in shutouts. The team had the third best ERA in the league, at 17, Harvey Blauvelt was the leagues youngest player. Note, Pos = Position, G = Games played, AB = At bats, H = Hits, = Batting average, HR = Home runs, RBI = Runs batted in Note, G = Games played, AB = At bats, H = Hits, Avg
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Duke Esper
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Duke Esper was a professional baseball player who played pitcher in the Major Leagues from 1890–1898. He would play for the Philadelphia Athletics, Pittsburgh Pirates, Philadelphia Phillies, Baltimore Orioles, Washington Senators and he gave up Roger Connors 100th home run, the second player to do so after Harry Stovey. Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference, or Baseball-Reference
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Mickey Hughes
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Michael J. Hughes was an American Major League Baseball pitcher from 1888 to 1890. His brother, Jay Hughes, was also a major league pitcher, although his career was short, the New York City native did have one season worth noting, his rookie season in 1888. That season, he recorded 25 victories for the second place Brooklyn Bridegrooms and he finished his short, three season career with 39 wins,28 losses, and a 3.28 E. R. A. Mickey died in Jersey City, New Jersey at the age of 64, mickey Hughes at Find a Grave
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Sadie McMahon
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John Joseph Sadie McMahon was a professional baseball player who played pitcher in the Major Leagues from 1889 to 1897. McMahon would play for the Philadelphia Athletics, Baltimore Orioles, McMahon was born in Wilmington, Delaware and grew up in the Henry Clay Village area. In 1954, McMahon died and was buried in St. Joseph on the Brandywine Church Cemetery in Wilmington and he was inducted into the Delaware Sports Museum and Hall of Fame in 1979. List of Major League Baseball annual strikeout leaders Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference, or Baseball-Reference
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Ed Seward
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Edward William Seward, born as Edward William Sourhardt, was an American Major League Baseball pitcher for six seasons from 1885 to 1891. Seward made his professional debut in 1884 at age 16 with Terre Haute of the Northwestern League. Because of his age, he was referred to as Kid Seward, known for his curve ball, Seward later played for the Providence Grays, Philadelphia Athletics, and Cleveland Spiders. List of Major League Baseball annual strikeout leaders List of Major League Baseball no-hitters Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference, or Baseball-Reference
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Jim Whitney
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James Evans Grasshopper Jim Whitney was a professional baseball player. He was a pitcher over parts of ten seasons with the Boston Red Caps/Beaneaters, Kansas City Cowboys, Washington Nationals, Indianapolis Hoosiers. He was the National League strikeout champion in 1883 with the Boston Beaneaters, for his career, he compiled a 191–204 record in 413 appearances, with a 2.97 ERA and 1571 strikeouts. He was born in Conklin, New York and later died in Binghamton, New York at the age of 33
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Kid Baldwin
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Clarence Geoghan Kid Baldwin was a Major League Baseball catcher. He played seven seasons at the Major League level, in addition to playing catcher, Baldwin also played outfield, third base, second base and first base. He also pitched two games in the 1885 season and he played well until the mid-August collapse of the Pacific Northwest League. Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference, or Fangraphs, or Baseball-Reference Baseball Almanac MLB
