• The Springfield Midgets were a minor league baseball team that played from 1903 to 1904 in the Missouri Valley League and from 1906 to 1909 and 1921 to...
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  • 1905, when the Springfield Highlanders began play. For nearly 30 years, the team was variously called the Highlanders, Jobbers, Midgets, and Merchants...
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  • Cornhuskers (1888–1891) Springfield, MO: Springfield Highlanders (1905); Springfield Midgets (1906-1909); Springfield Jobbers (1911); Springfield Merchants (1920);...
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  • Harry Kane (baseball) (category Springfield Midgets players)
    Harry Kane (born Henry Kohn) (July 27, 1883 – September 15, 1932) was a professional baseball player. He played from 1902 to 1906. He was nicknamed Klondike...
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    Babe Adams (category Springfield Midgets players)
    Charles Benjamin "Babe" Adams (May 18, 1882 – July 27, 1968) was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1906 to 1926 who...
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  • Charlie Gooch (category Springfield Midgets players)
    Charles Furman Gooch (June 5, 1902 – May 30, 1982) was a professional baseball player. He was a first baseman and third baseman for one season (1929) with...
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  • football player Bob Wells, manager of the minor league baseball team Springfield Midgets in 1928 Bob Wells (vandweller) (born 1955/56), American author and...
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  • Cactus Keck (category Springfield Midgets players)
    30, 1960. p. 52. Retrieved January 17, 2024. "Ex-Cardinal Keck dies". Springfield Leader and Press. UPI. February 8, 1981. p. 46. Retrieved January 17...
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    Dick Bayless (category Springfield Midgets players)
    Harry Owen "Dick" Bayless (September 6, 1885 – December 16, 1920) was an American professional baseball player. He was an outfielder for one season (1908)...
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    Boss Schmidt (category Springfield Midgets players)
    (1919), Fort Smith Twins (1920–1921), Atlanta Crackers (1921–1922), Springfield Midgets (1924), and Kalamazoo Celery Pickers (1926). He served as a player-manager...
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    Mutt Williams (baseball) (category Springfield Midgets players)
    David Carter "Mutt" Williams (July 31, 1892 – March 30, 1962) was a Major League Baseball pitcher who played with the Washington Senators in 1913 and 1914...
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    the Silver Crown Series, National Sprint Cars, National Midgets, Speed2 Midget Series, .25 Midget Series, Stadium Super Trucks, and GT World Challenge America...
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    Ad Brennan (category Springfield Midgets players)
    Baseball. Brennan began his professional career in 1908 with the Springfield Midgets. He played in 1909 with the Wichita Jobbers, and had a win–loss record...
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    Marc Hall (baseball) (category Springfield Midgets players)
    Marcus Hall (August 12, 1887 – February 24, 1915) was an American professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis...
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    2017 - Korey Weyant (Springfield, IL) 2018 - Paul White (Waco, TX) Martin, Sam. "A Close Look At The Lucas Oil POWRi National Midget Series". Retrieved...
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    Bill Swift (1930s pitcher) (category Springfield Midgets players)
    William Vincent Swift (June 19, 1908 – February 23, 1969) was an American baseball player. He was a pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates (1932–39), Boston...
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  • Harley Young (category Springfield Midgets players)
    Harlan Edward Young (September 28, 1883 – March 26, 1975) nicknamed "Cy the Third", was a professional baseball pitcher. He played for two Major League...
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    Nig Perrine (category Springfield Midgets players)
    John Grover "Nig" Perrine (January 14, 1885 – August 13, 1948) was an American professional baseball infielder. Perrine started his professional baseball...
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  • Tony Tonneman (category Springfield Midgets players)
    Charles Richard Tonneman (September 10, 1881 – August 4, 1951) was a reserve catcher in Major League Baseball who played two games for the Boston Red Sox...
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  • Runt Marr (category Springfield Midgets players)
    least part of 15 seasons. He skippered the Norfolk Elk Horns (1922), Springfield Midgets (1923), Fort Smith Twins (1924, 1927-1928, 1930-1932), Vicksburg...
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  • Fred Olmstead (category Springfield Midgets players)
    Frederic William Olmstead (July 3, 1881 – October 22, 1936) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball. He played for the Chicago White Sox from 1908 to 1911...
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  • Sedalia, MO: Sedalia Gold Bugs (1902–1904) Springfield, MO: Springfield Reds (1902); Springfield Midgets (1903–1904) Topeka, KS: Topeka Saints (1904)...
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  • Don Flinn (category Springfield Midgets players)
    Don Flinn (November 17, 1892 – March 9, 1959) played major league baseball for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1917. He played just 14 games, all as an outfielder...
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    Gus Hetling (category Springfield Midgets players)
    totaling 14 years, in the minor leagues. He played for the Springfield Midgets (1904, 1906), Springfield Highlanders (1906), Wichita Jobbers (1907–08), Kansas...
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    Bob Groom (category Springfield Midgets players)
    Robert Groom (September 12, 1884 – February 19, 1948) was an American professional baseball player who played as a pitcher in two midwest minor leagues...
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    Butch Weis (category Springfield Midgets players)
    Arthur John "Butch" Weis (March 2, 1901 – May 4, 1997) was a Major League Baseball left fielder who played for four seasons. He played for the Chicago...
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  • Charley Stis (category Springfield Midgets players)
    Year Club Level Position 1906 Springfield Midgets St. Joseph Packers/Hutchinson Salt Packers WA Second base 1907 Butte Miners Seattle Siwashes NWES Second...
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  • Howie Gregory (category Springfield Midgets players)
    Howard Watterson Gregory (November 18, 1886 – May 30, 1970) was a Major League Baseball pitcher. Gregory played for the St. Louis Browns in 1911. Career...
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  • Bill Lewis (baseball) (category Springfield Midgets players)
    William Henry Lewis (October 15, 1904 – October 24, 1977) was a Major League Baseball catcher. Nicknamed "Buddy", he played parts of three seasons in the...
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    Billy Curtis (category Actors from Springfield, Massachusetts)
    only Western with an all-midget cast. Many of the actors in Tiny Town were part of a performing troupe called Singer's Midgets, who also played Munchkins...
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