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Brooklyn Chinese-American Association

BCA also conducts weekly government outstation programs, enabling clients to be interviewed for Social Security, SSI, Medicare, and Family Health Plus application assistance.


1882 Philadelphia Athletics season

The 1882 season was the first season for the brand new Philadelphia Athletics (no relation, except by name, to the previous Philadelphia Athletics team).

1883 St. Louis Browns season

The St. Louis Browns 1883 season was the team's 2nd season in St. Louis, Missouri and its 2nd season in the American Association.

1889 Cleveland Spiders season

Before the 1889 season, the Cleveland Blues switched from the American Association to the National League.

1890 Baltimore Orioles season

The Baltimore Orioles team left the American Association after the 1889 season and started playing in the minor Atlantic Association.

1891 Philadelphia Athletics season

The team, which had played the 1890 season in the defunct Players' League, joined the American Association as a replacement for the previous version of the Philadelphia Athletics, who were expelled after the 1890 season.

1892 Baltimore Orioles season

With the demise of the American Association, the Baltimore Orioles joined the more established National League for the 1892 season.

Abraham G. Mills

In 1888, Mills called an assembly of representatives from the three professional leagues—the National League, American Association, and Northwestern League—in what was dubbed as the "Harmony Conference."

Bank Street Grounds

A new Reds franchise was formed as an American Association club in 1882.

Bill Lillard

He returned to baseball for his final seasons with the New York Giants' organization, batting .269 in 1946 for their American Association team in Minneapolis.

Bob Neighbors

Neighbors returned to the minors in 1940, batting .279 for the Toledo Mud Hens of the American Association, one step below the majors.

Bobby Malkmus

Washington gave Malkmus 47 games to prove himself in 1958-59, but he batted only .186 and was outrighted to the unaffiliated Denver Bears of the American Association at the May 1959 cut-down deadline.

Charleston Charlies

The Senators played in the American Association through the 1960 season.

Charlie Bastian

The light-hitting Bastian toiled for a total of six teams in the Union League, National League, Players League, and American Association during an eight-year career.

Ed Summers

He began his playing career in the American Association before joining the Tigers in the American League in 1908.

Eddie Popowski

In his only Triple-A managerial role, he was the last skipper in the history of the Minneapolis Millers of the American Association, in 1960.

Elise Harney

Then, the newly formed Milwaukee Chicks and Minneapolis Millerettes entered the league in 1944 and played their home games at American Association ball parks during the time periods the Milwaukee Brewers and Minneapolis Millers male teams were on road trips.

Fred Abbott

Splitting his time in the backup role this time, with Fritz Buelow and rookie Harry Ostdiek Abbott batted a meager .169 with no homers and only a dozen RBI before being sent down to the Columbus Senators of the American Association where he finished the season going .222 over 34 games.

Guy Hansen

He has also been a scout (1981–87), and the pitching coach for several of Kansas City's farm teams, including the Eugene Emeralds of the Northwest League (1987–98), the Memphis Chicks of the Southern League (1989–90), and the Omaha Royals, then of the American Association (1991).

Jack Gleason

He played his last season in 1886 for the Philadelphia Athletics back in the American Association.

He then played in the American Association for the St. Louis Browns in 1882 and the beginning of 1883 and the Louisville Eclipse for the majority of 1883.

Jake Beckley

After his Major League career ended, Beckley became a player/manager for Kansas City in the American Association in 1908-1909, Bartlesville in the Western Association in 1910, and Hannibal in the Central Association in 1911.

Jefferson Street Grounds

Later it was home to the American Association Athletics beginning 1883, moving in from Oakdale Park, until 1890.

Joe Crotty

Crotty played from 18821886 in the American Association for the Louisville Eclipses, St. Louis Brown Stockings, and New York Metropolitans and for the Cincinnati Outlaw Reds in the Union Association.

John Roll McLean

McLean was also a one-time partner in the ownership of the Cincinnati Red Stockings baseball team of the American Association and also the Cincinnati Outlaw Reds of the Union Association.

John T. Brush

He built a ballpark in 1882, and it became home to the Indianapolis Hoosiers of the American Association for their only major league season in 1884; they played in the Western League before that circuit folded after the 1885 campaign.

Lee Cruz

Lee Cruz returned to the Kansas City TBones Kansas City T-Bones of the American Association on July 13, 2012.

Cruz had his contract purchased by the Kansas City TBones Kansas City T-Bones of the American Association on April 17, 2012.

The Long Island Ducks announced on August 28, 2012 that they have acquired outfielder Lee Cruz from the Kansas City T-Bones of the American Association in exchange for a player to be named later.

Louisville Colonels

The Louisville Colonels were a Major League Baseball team that played in the American Association throughout that league's ten-year existence from 1882 until 1891, first as the Louisville Eclipse (1882–1884) and later as the Louisville Colonels (1885–1891), the latter name derived from the historic Kentucky colonels.

Mike Roarke

He toiled one further season, 1960, in the minors (with the Denver Bears of the American Association) before finally making his Major League debut with the Tigers at age 30 on April 19, 1961.

O. P. Caylor

Oliver Perry Caylor (December 14, 1849 – October 19, 1897) was an American baseball newspaper columnist for The Cincinnati Enquirer and the Cincinnati Commercial before becoming one of the principal figures in the founding of the American Association in 1881 as well as the catalyst in the formation of the modern-day Cincinnati Reds.

Ollie Chill

In 1926, Chill was dismissed as an umpire from the American Association for registering at a Kansas City hotel where he had been given specific orders not to stay.

Omaha Dodgers

The Omaha Dodgers were a minor league baseball affiliate, based in Omaha, Nebraska, of the Los Angeles Dodgers in the Class AAA American Association in 1961-62.

Prentice Redman

In 2011 he played independent baseball with the Bridgeport Bluefish of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball, the Kansas City T-Bones of the American Association and the Olmecas de Tabasco of the Mexican Baseball League.

Rio Grande Valley Giants

The Texas League underwent a massive face lift in the late 1950s after three of its top franchises — Dallas, Fort Worth and Houston — moved up to the Triple-A American Association for the 1959 season.

Roy Hitt

After a short stint in the American Association, Hitt returned to the Pacific Coast League in 1909, with the Vernon Tigers.

Salvi Sports Enterprises

Salvi Sports owns the Gary SouthShore RailCats of the American Association, the North Shore Navigators of the Futures Collegiate Baseball League, and the Schaumburg Boomers of the Frontier League.

Sam Nicholl

He played for the Pittsburg Alleghenys of the National League during the 1888 baseball season and the Columbus Solons of the American Association during the 1890 season.

Sports in Texas

The Fort Worth Cats are a team in Fort Worth, Texas that has won 3 straight championships, one in the Central Baseball League and the last two in the American Association.

Tom Runnells

In 1989, his Indianapolis Indians won the American Association championship and the "AAA Classic," earning him a promotion to a coaching position with the parent Montreal Expos.

Tom Upton

He split the 1944 season between the Norfolk Tars and Kansas City Blues, hitting a combined .140 with a .162 slugging percentage in 222 at-bat.

Tookie Gilbert

Gilbert was a formidable slugger during his minor league career in the Class AA Southern Association, where he played for the Nashville Vols, and led the American Association in homers with 29 in 1951 while a member of the Minneapolis Millers, but as a major leaguer he batted only .203 in 183 games played and 482 at bats in appearances for the 1950 and 1953 Giants.

Wichita Aeros

The Wichita Aeros were an American minor league baseball franchise based in Wichita, Kansas, that played in the Triple-A American Association from 1970 through 1984.

Yurendell DeCaster

He entered 2012 with the Olmecas de Tabasco, before joining the independent Winnipeg Goldeyes of the American Association during the midseason.


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