- Keokuk Westerns
The Western club of
Keokuk, Iowa , or Keokuk Westerns, were a professionalbaseball team in theNational Association in1875 , the last season of that first professional league. They are considered a major league team by those who count theNA as a major league .In 1875 the NA entry fee was $20 for one championship season. The Westerns won one of 13 games (1-12 record) before going out of business. For 1876, stronger clubs in bigger cities, led by the
Chicago White Stockings , organized theNational League on a different basis, chiefly in order to exclude weaker clubs from smaller cities such as Keokuk.The Westerns were managed by
Joe Simmons and played their home games atPerry Park . Their top hitter wascatcher Paddy Quinn, who went 14-for-43 for abatting average of .326.Roster
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Billy Barnie
*John Carbine
*Mike Golden
*Wally Goldsmith
*Jim Hall
*Jimmy Hallinan
*Charley Jones
*Joe Miller
*Paddy Quinn
*Billy Riley
*Joe Simmons External links
* [http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/WES/www.example.com Keokuk Westerns Index]
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