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Re: (erielack) Erie Baseball Specials



That distasteful Binghamton stadium sits on the location of the DL&W freight 
house. It is a nice place to see a game, and a few trains, too. If only they 
were still being pulled by SDP 45's!!

We did have the Triplets, a Yankee farm team, here til the late 60's. Among 
the more notable players to grace the roster was Whitey Ford.

Tom B

> Many cities and towns along the Erie (quasi list relevance) here in WNY
> fielded PONY league teams.  Besides Hornell, Wellsville, Olean and
> Jamestown, among others all had teams.  Contrary to Hornell, Wellsville's
> owners were of great business savvy and acumen and had their team
> affiliated
> with the Yankees.  In the late 50's, they became somewhat feeble minded 
> and
> irresponsible and changed it's affiliation to that with the classic
> underperformers of the Red Sox (some man of questionable faculties from 
> the
> Boston area (and previously from Binghamton, an area of distasteful Met
> fans!) made a shameful plug for them in an earlier post). 



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