The Youngstown Ohio Works baseball team was a minor league club that was
known for winning the premier championship of the Ohio–Pennsylvania
League in 1905, and for launching the professional career of pitcher Roy
Castleton a year later (second row, second from left, in a 1906 team
photograph). A training ground for several players and officials who
later established careers in Major League Baseball, the team proved a
formidable regional competitor and also won the 1906 league
championship. During its brief span of activity, the Ohio Works team
faced challenges that reflected common difficulties within the
Ohio–Pennsylvania League, including weak financial support for teams.
Following a dispute over funding, the team's owners sold the club to
outside investors, just a few months before the opening of the
1907 season. The club's strong record and regional visibility spurred
the growth of amateur and minor league baseball in the Youngstown area,
and the community's minor league teams produced notable players
throughout the first half of the 20th century.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youngstown_Ohio_Works>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1190:
The Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowned in the
Saleph River in Anatolia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_I,_Holy_Roman_Emperor>
1838:
More than 25 Australian Aborigines were massacred near
Inverell, New South Wales.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myall_Creek_massacre>
1925:
The United Church of Canada, the country's largest Protestant
church, held its inaugural service in Toronto's Mutual Street Arena.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Church_of_Canada>
1935:
American physician Bob Smith had his last alcoholic drink,
marking the traditional founding date of Alcoholics Anonymous.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholics_Anonymous>
1991:
Eleven-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard was kidnapped in South Lake
Tahoe, California; she would remain a captive until 2009.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping_of_Jaycee_Lee_Dugard>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
white whale:
1. A cetacean, Delphinapterus leucas.
2. (figuratively) An obsession; monomania.
3. (trading cards) A printing plate, for a sports card, that is then issued
as a collectible itself.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/white_whale>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Love is a fire that burns unseen, A wound that aches yet isn't
felt, An always discontent contentment, A pain that rages without
hurting, A longing for nothing but to long, A loneliness in the midst of
people, A never feeling pleased when pleased, A passion that gains when
lost in thought.
--Luís de Camões
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lu%C3%ADs_de_Cam%C3%B5es>