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Eastlake, Ohio
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Eastlake is a city in Lake County, Ohio, United States. The population was 18,577 at the 2010 census, dennis Morley is the current mayor of Eastlake. The city was named for the fact it is northeast of Cleveland, Ohio, Eastlake is the site where Akron-based FirstEnergys Eastlake Generating Station shut down at 1, 31pm EDT on August 14,2003, leading to the infamous 2003 North America blackout a few hours later. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 6.53 square miles. Eastlake is about 19 miles northeast of Cleveland, Ohio, along the shore of Lake Erie,94. 3% spoke English and 2. 9% spoke Croatian. As of the census of 2010, there were 18,577 people,7,841 households, the population density was 2,902.7 inhabitants per square mile. There were 8,280 housing units at a density of 1,293.8 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 95. 9% White,1. 4% African American,0. 1% Native American,1. 0% Asian,0. 3% from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 1. 4% of the population. 29. 7% of all households were made up of individuals and 11. 2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.37 and the average family size was 2.93. The median age in the city was 42.7 years. 20. 6% of residents were under the age of 18,8. 3% were between the ages of 18 and 24,24. 4% were from 25 to 44,31. 3% were from 45 to 64, and 15. 4% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 49. 3% male and 50. 7% female, as of the census of 2000, there were 20,255 people,8,055 households, and 5,557 families residing in the city. The population density was 3,166.5 people per square mile, there were 8,310 housing units at an average density of 1,299.1 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 97. 44% White,0. 54% African American,0. 16% Native American,0. 97% Asian,0. 01% Pacific Islander,0. 15% from other races, and 0. 73% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0. 70% of the population,17. 1% were of German,16. 4% Italian,15. 1% Irish,7. 5% Polish,6. 1% Slovene and 5. 7% English ancestry according to Census 2000. 26. 3% of all households were made up of individuals and 9. 3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.51 and the average family size was 3.07. In the city the population was out with 23. 8% under the age of 18,8. 1% from 18 to 24,30. 3% from 25 to 44,25. 7% from 45 to 64. The median age was 38 years, for every 100 females there were 95.3 males
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Midwest League
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The Midwest League is a Minor League Baseball league, established in 1954 and based in the Midwestern United States. It is a Class A league that plays a full season, the Midwest League began as the Illinois State League, then became the Mississippi–Ohio Valley League. In 1956, the Mississippi-Ohio Valley League was renamed the Midwest League, today, the league has 16 teams in two divisions. The Lansing Lugnuts and Wisconsin Timber Rattlers franchises jointly have won the most league championships, the Midwest League directly evolved from two earlier leagues in the region. In 1949, the ISL changed its name to the Mississippi–Ohio Valley League after Marion moved their franchise to Kentucky, in 1954, the Mississippi-Ohio Valley League expanded, adding teams in Clinton and Dubuque, Iowa. The Mississippi-Ohio Valley League was then renamed Midwest League in 1956, mattoon is the oldest franchise in the MWL, evolving into todays Fort Wayne TinCaps, while Clinton is the oldest MWL locale. In 1960, the Davenport, Iowa based Quad City Braves joined the league as an expansion team, in 1962, Appleton, Burlington, and Cedar Rapids joined the Midwest League from the Illinois-Indiana-Iowa League which folded operations when those franchises switched leagues. All those franchised remain in the league today, in 1963, the Midwest League was designated as a Class A league, after the minor league classification structure was reorganized. The 1975 Waterloo Royals, led by future MLB All-Stars Willie Wilson, the Royals finished the season 93–35. In 1976, the Midwest League contracted from ten teams to eight, as franchises in Danville, in 1982, the league expanded from 8 to 12 teams, adding the Beloit Brewers, the Danville Suns, the Madison Muskies, and the Springfield Cardinals. The Peoria Suns relocated from Danville in 1983, and acquired their current name, Peoria Chiefs, the following year. In 1988, the league began splitting its season into two halves and expanded from 12 to 14 teams, with the addition of franchises in South Bend, Indiana, and Rockford, Illinois. Kenosha, Madison, Rockford, Springfield, Waterloo, and Wausau lost teams during this decade while Battle Creek, Dayton, Fort Wayne, Grand Rapids, Kane County, the 1978 Appleton Foxes are ranked #93 on the Top-100 All Time teams by MiLB. com. Led by future Cy Young Award winner LaMarr Hoyt, the team finished 97-40, harry Chappas, Ross Baumgarten and Britt Burns were all called up to the parent Chicago White Sox at the conclusin of the MWL season. The 97 wins by the Foxes remains a Midwest League record, the Clinton LumberKings have been in one city longer than any Midwest League team, having called Clinton, Iowa, home since 1954. The Southwest Michigan Devil Rays moved to Midland, Michigan, Year by Year championship teams, List of Midwest League champions Baseball awards#U. S. minor leagues Official Midwest League website A Fans Guide to the Midwest League
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South Atlantic League
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The South Atlantic League is a minor league baseball league with teams along the Atlantic coastline of the United States from New Jersey to Georgia. It is a Class A league that plays a full season, a number of different leagues known as the South Atlantic League have existed since 1904. The current league of that name adopted the moniker in 1980, having previously been the Western Carolinas League, there have been different South Atlantic Leagues in the history of minor league baseball, spanning from 1904 to the present with a few breaks. The league ran from 1904 to 1917 as a class C league, then started up again in 1919 and this time it ran from 1919 to 1930, moving up to class B beginning in 1921. William G. Bramham became league president in mid-1924, and served until 1930, the league was restarted again as a class B from 1936 to 1942, shut down for the war and returned in 1946 as a class A league. The AA Southern Association died after the 1961 season and so the SAL was promoted to AA in 1963 to take its place, a year later the name was changed to the Southern League. Out of the 51 seasons of operation, Augusta, Georgia competed in 46, Macon, Georgia was around for 46, and Columbia, South Carolina was in 45. Charleston, South Carolina, Jacksonville, Florida, Savannah, Georgia, the South Atlantic League name went unused for 16 years, but in 1980 the Western Carolinas League brought back the name when it sought to change its identity. Moss retired at the close of the 2007 South Atlantic League season and he died at age 90 on July 1,2009, at Kings Mountain, North Carolina—a town where he had also been mayor for 23 years. In 2005, the SAL had the highest attendance in 101 years with over 3,541,992 fans, currently, the league has 14 teams, divided into two divisions of seven clubs. In 2015, the Savannah Sand Gnats relocated to Columbia, South Carolina, the league is divided into a Northern Division and a Southern Division
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Cleveland Indians
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The Cleveland Indians are an American professional baseball team based in Cleveland, Ohio. The Indians compete in Major League Baseball as a club of the American League Central division. Since 1994, they have played at Progressive Field, the teams spring training facility is at Goodyear Ballpark in Goodyear, Arizona. The Indians current World Series championship drought is the longest active drought, the name Indians originated from a request by club owner Charles Somers to baseball writers to choose a new name to replace Cleveland Naps following the departure of Nap Lajoie after the 1914 season. The name referenced the nickname Indians that was applied to the Cleveland Spiders baseball club during the time when Louis Sockalexis, common nicknames for the Indians include the Tribe and the Wahoos, the latter being a reference to their logo, Chief Wahoo, a controversial Native American caricature. The teams mascot is named Slider, the franchise originated in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1894 as the Grand Rapids Rustlers, a minor league team in the Western League. The team moved to Cleveland in 1900 and changed its name to the Cleveland Lake Shores, one of the American Leagues eight charter franchises, the major league incarnation of the club was founded in Cleveland in 1901. Originally called the Cleveland Bluebirds, the played in League Park until moving permanently to Cleveland Stadium in 1946. At the end of the 2016 season, they had a regular season record of 9. In 1857 baseball games were a spectacle in Clevelands Public Squares. City authorities tried to find an ordinance forbidding it, to the joy of the crowd, – Harold Seymour 1865–1868 Forest Citys of Cleveland 1869–1872 Forest Citys of Cleveland From 1865 to 1868 Forest Citys was an amateur ball club. During the 1869 season, Cleveland was among several cities which established professional baseball teams following the success of the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings, the first fully professional team. In the newspapers before and after 1870, the team was called the Forest Citys. In 1871 the Forest Citys joined the new National Association of Professional Base Ball Players, ultimately, two of the leagues western clubs went out of business during the first season and the Chicago Fire left that citys White Stockings impoverished, unable to field a team again until 1874. Cleveland was thus the NAs westernmost outpost in 1872, the year the club folded, Cleveland played their full schedule to July 19 followed by two games versus Boston in mid-August and disbanded at the end of the season. 1879–1881 Cleveland Forest Citys 1882–1884 Cleveland Blues In 1876, the National League supplanted the NA as the professional league. Cleveland were not among its members, but by 1879 the league was looking for new entries. The Cleveland Forest Citys baseball team was then re-created, the National League required distinct colors for the 1882 season, so the Cleveland Forest Citys became the Cleveland Blues
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Columbus RedStixx
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The Columbus RedStixx were a minor league baseball team in Columbus, Georgia. They were a Class A team in the South Atlantic League, the RedStixx played home games at Golden Park, except during 1996. The teams home games were moved to Ragsdale Field on the campus of Columbus State University, the name RedStixx refers to the Red Sticks, a faction of Creek Indians of the area. In 1991, the South Atlantic League expanded, adding two teams, including one in Columbus, the team carried the nickname of the parent club, the Cleveland Indians, during its inaugural year. They took the name RedStixx for the remainder of their existence, in 2002, the team announced their intention to move to Eastlake, Ohio following that years regular season. The team renamed themselves the Lake County Captains, although the Redstixx left Columbus, a new team, the South Georgia Waves arrived in town the next year. Note, W = Wins, L = Losses 1- 1st half division champion2- 2nd half division champion 1991, Columbus Indians 1992-2002, Columbus RedStixx Baseball Reference
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Classic Park
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Classic Park is a stadium in Eastlake, Ohio, in suburban Cleveland. It is primarily used for baseball, and is the field of the Lake County Captains minor league baseball team. It was built in 2003 at a cost of $22 million, although not immediately apparent to non-locals, the stadium bears a corporate name. The naming rights were purchased by Classic Automotive Group, a large Cleveland-area chain of auto dealerships, in order to construct Classic Park, Eastlake, Ohio assumed $1 million in debt. This debt necessitated cuts in services, including the laying off of five police officers. The field was voted as the Best Playing Surface in the South Atlantic League in 2003,2004 and 2007, other features include a 4, 000-square foot indoor batting facility with two full-sized batting cages. The main clubhouse building is located beyond the right-field corner and houses both the Captains and visiting teams, each clubhouse features offices for the manager and coaching staff, a training room, and laundry facilities. The ballpark and playing field are available for rent to area businesses, many organizations play games at the stadium during the year and the team operates a fundraising program enabling teams to play games there and make money for their organization at the same time. The stadium features two large party tents which can accommodate up to 500 guests in each one, in addition, there are two private Party Decks located on the suite level which can hold up to 60 people in each one. The park also features 20 party suites which can be rented for the season, half-season, quarter-season or on a game-by-game basis, the suite level also features a full-service bar and an oversized private party suite called The Officers Club. About Classic Park Classic Park Views - Ball Parks of the Minor Leagues
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Golden Park
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Golden Park is a 5, 000-seat baseball stadium in Columbus, Georgia, United States, that opened in 1926. Located on the Chattahoochee River in Downtown Columbus, it currently is not home to any professional baseball team, the exterior of the Golden Park is a red brick façade and has many well-landscaped sidewalks that connect to the Chattahoochee RiverWalk. Doug Redmond led the park to the most successful park attendance record in 1992, Golden Park is named after Theodore Earnest Golden SR, co-founder of Goldens Foundry and Machine Co. Golden led the effort in Columbus for the citys first South Atlantic League team, the Taiwan Homerun Team beat the Austin Blackhawks by a score of 5-2. Golden Park Golden Park views - Ballparks of the Minor Leagues Baseball in Columbus, Georgia, by Cecil Darby
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Luke Carlin
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Luke Christopher Carlin is American Canadian former professional baseball catcher. He played in Major League Baseball for the San Diego Padres, Arizona Diamondbacks and he was named to the All-Tournament Team at the 2002 America East Tournament, in which the Huskies finished second. On May 10,2008, Carlin made his league debut for the San Diego Padres. On May 16,2008, he came through with his first major league hit and he became a free agent at the end of the season and signed a minor league contract with the Arizona Diamondbacks in January 2009. On January 12,2010, Carlin signed a league contract with the Pittsburgh Pirates with an invitation to spring training. On August 10,2010, Carlin was traded to the Cleveland Indians for a player to be named later and his contract was purchased by the Indians from Triple-A Columbus on September 23. Carlin was outrighted to Triple-A Columbus on October 31, removing him from the 40-man roster, Carlin refused his minor league assignment and subsequently filed for free agency. On November 29,2010, Carlin signed a league contract with the Indians. Carlin began 2012 with Columbus, hitting.227 in 20 games with 10 RBI before he was called up to Cleveland on May 26 to replace Carlos Santana and he was designated for assignment on June 12, and sent to Triple A on June 15. Career statistics and player information from MLB, or ESPN, or Baseball-Reference, or Fangraphs, or The Baseball Cube, or Baseball-Reference
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Minor League Baseball
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All of the minor leagues are operated as independent businesses. Most are members of the organization known as Minor League Baseball. Several leagues, known as independent baseball leagues, do not have any links to Major League Baseball. Major League Baseball and Minor League Baseball teams may enter into a PDC for a two- or four-year term. At the expiration of a PDC term, teams may renew their affiliation, or sign new PDCs with different clubs, though many relationships are renewed and endure for extended time periods. Minor League teams that are owned directly by the major league club do not have PDCs with each other and are not part of the reaffiliation shuffles that occur every other year, several more independent leagues operate in the United States and Canada. The earliest professional baseball association, the National Association of 1871 to 1875 and this system proved unworkable, however, as there was no way to ensure competitive balance, and financially unsound clubs often failed in midseason. This problem was solved in 1876 with the formation of the National League, with a membership which excluded less competitive. Professional clubs outside the National League responded by forming regional associations of their own, there was a series of ad hoc groupings, such as the New England Association of 1877 and the Eastern Championship Association of 1881. These were loose groups of independent clubs which agreed to play a series of games for a championship pennant, the first minor league is traditionally considered to be the Northwestern League of 1883 to 1884. Unlike the earlier minor associations, it was conceived as a permanent organization and it also, along with the National League and the American Association, was a party to the National Agreement of 1883. Included in this was the agreement to respect the reserve lists of clubs in each league, teams in the National League and the American Association could only reserve players who had been paid at least $1000. Northwest League teams could reserve players paid merely $750, implicitly establishing the division into major and minor leagues, over the next two decades, more minor leagues signed various versions of the National Agreement. Eventually, the minor leagues joined together to negotiate jointly, in the late 1890s, the Western League run by the fiery Ban Johnson decided to challenge the National Leagues position. Representatives of the different minor leagues met at the Leland Hotel in Chicago on September 5,1901, in response to the National–American battle, they agreed to form the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues, called the NAPBL, or NA for short. The purpose of the NA at the time was to maintain the independence of the leagues involved, several did not sign the agreement and continued to work independently. Powers was made the first president of the NAPBL, whose offices were established in Auburn, in 1903, the conflict between the American and National Leagues ended in the National Agreement of 1903. The NAPBL became involved in the stages of the negotiations to develop rules for the acquisition of players from their leagues by the National
