Category: Indianapolis ABCs players

* 2 May — the first game of the new league is played at Indianapolis with the Indianapolis ABCs defeating the Chicago Giants ( not to be confused with the Chicago American Giants )

* Indianapolis ABCs ( 1920 – 1924, 1925 – 1926 ) — Dropped from league mid-season 1924 but returned the following season.

* Memphis Red Sox ( 1924 – 1925, 1927 – 1930 ) — Mid-season replacement in 1924 for Indianapolis ABCs.

* Indianapolis ABCs ( 2nd team ) ( 1931 )

* 1920: Formation of NNL consisting of 8 teams-Chicago American Giants, Detroit Stars, Kansas City Monarchs, Indianapolis ABCs, St. Louis Giants, Cuban Stars, Dayton Marcos and Chicago Giants.

* 1924: Dropped Toledo Tigers, Milwaukee Bears, Indianapolis ABCs ( mid-season ); Added Cleveland Browns, Birmingham Black Barons, Memphis Red Sox ( mid-season ).

* 1925: Dropped Cleveland Browns ; Added Indianapolis ABCs.

* 1927: Dropped Dayton Marcos, Indianapolis ABCs ; Added Birmingham Black Barons, Memphis Red Sox.

* 1931: Dropped Memphis Red Sox, Birmingham Black Barons, Cuban Stars ; Added Louisville White Sox, ( new ) Indianapolis ABCs.

Category: Indianapolis ABCs players

This team was actually the second incarnation of the Indianapolis ABCs who, shortly after opening day, shifted to Detroit and were renamed the Stars.

The team was moved to Indianapolis following the 1938 season, and played as the Indianapolis ABCs.

Taylor's Indianapolis ABCs and Rube Foster's Chicago American Giants.

Category: Indianapolis ABCs players

After playing with the Indianapolis Clowns of the Negro American League and in the minor leagues, Aaron started his major league career in 1954.

Aaron's minor league career began on November 20, 1951, when baseball scout Ed Scott signed Aaron to a contract on behalf of the Indianapolis Clowns of the Negro American League.

After relocating to Indianapolis, Indiana, eighteen-year-old Aaron helped the Indianapolis Clowns win the 1952 Negro League World Series.

* 1920 – The first game of the Negro National League baseball is played in Indianapolis, Indiana.

* May 2 – The first game of Negro National League baseball is played in Indianapolis, Indiana.

The Negro American League of 1951 is considered the last major league season and the last professional club, the Indianapolis Clowns, operated amusingly rather than competitively from the mid-1960s to 1980s.

She wrote for a variety of newspapers " published either by or in the interest of colored people ( Terrell, 1940, p. 222 )," such as the A. M. E. Church Review of Philadelphia, PA ; the Southern Workman of Hampton, VA ; the Indianapolis Freeman ; the Afro-American of Baltimore ; the Washington Tribune ; the Chicago Defender ; the New York Age ; the Voice of the Negro ; the Women's World ; and the Norfolk Journal and Guide ( Terrell, 1940 ).

His teams included St. Louis Stars, Detroit Wolves, Homestead Grays, Kansas City Monarchs, Chicago American Giants, Indianapolis ABC's, Cleveland Buckeyes ( whom he managed to Negro American League titles in 1945 and 1947 ), New York Cubans, and Bismarcks ( a / k / a Bismarck Churchills ).

John and Sylvester later played with the barnstorming Indianapolis Clowns of the Negro Leagues.

The Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings were loosely based on the Indianapolis Clowns and other barnstorming Negro baseball teams, engaging in Harlem Globetrotters-like clowning routines.

The Western League began play in April 1894 with teams in Detroit ( the only league team that has not moved since ), Grand Rapids, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Sioux City and Toledo.

During the 1984 season, the first in Indianapolis, the team went 4 – 12 and accounted for the fewest offensive yardage in the league that season.

Indianapolis finished the season with a 14 – 2 record, the best record in the league that year and the best in a 16 games season for the franchise, but would go onto lose to the Pittsburgh Steelers in divisional round, a disappointing end to the season.

The nature of this rivalry is ironic because while the Colts and Patriots were division rivals from 1970 to 2001, it did not become prominent in league circles until after Indianapolis was relocated to the AFC South.

The 2009 season was the team's most successful season, which culminated in the franchise's first league championship win against the Indianapolis Colts in Super Bowl XLIV.

Over his career, Stairs has played for six other minor league teams: The Indianapolis Indians ( Triple-A ) in 1992, the Ottawa Lynx ( Triple-A ) in 1993, the New Britain Red Sox ( Double-A ) in 1994, the Pawtucket Red Sox ( Triple-A ) in 1995, the Edmonton Trappers ( Triple-A ) in 1996 and a few rehab games for the Nashville Sounds ( Triple-A ) in 2003.

Teams representing Holy Name of Jesus School participate in Indianapolis ' Catholic Youth Organization ( CYO ) sports league, in sports such as football, wrestling, kickball, and basketball.

Some teams all of the way from St. Louis, Chicago, Kansas City, Louisville, Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Philadelphia, as well as minor league squads from Columbus, Ohio and Toledo, Ohio to play at Riverside Park.

The league made it through its first season with all eight teams in operation, though the Dayton Rockettes had been taken over by the league in February 1979 and was to be relocated to either Indianapolis or Los Angeles.

Undaunted, Powers tried again the following year, creating a new league with teams in Chicago, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Indianapolis, St. Louis, and Covington, Kentucky.

He had publicly criticized the Baltimore Colts ' move to Indianapolis, and had testified in favor of the NFL in court cases where the league unsuccessfully tried to stop Al Davis from moving the Oakland Raiders from Oakland to Los Angeles.

Appling was a successful minor league manager after his playing days were over, winning pennants with Memphis in the Southern Association and Indianapolis of the American Association and being named minor league manager of the year in 1952 ; but his only chance to manage at the major league level was as a late-season replacement for Alvin Dark as manager of the Kansas City Athletics in 1967, leaving his major league managerial record at 10-30.

The other teams in the league are Indianapolis ABC's, Detroit Stars, St. Louis Stars, Cuban Stars ( West ), Toledo Tigers, and Milwaukee Bears.

The league was the brainchild of Indianapolis grocer Irv Kautsky, who sponsored the Indianapolis Kautskys club team, and Goodyear Tire Company, who originally sponsored the Akron Wingfoots.

He has won a record four league most valuable player awards, was the most valuable player of Super Bowl XLI, has been named to eleven Pro Bowls, has eleven 4, 000-yard passing seasons ( including a record six straight ), and is the Indianapolis Colts'all-time leader in passing yards ( 54, 828 ) and touchdown passes ( 399 ).

* Indianapolis Indians ( United States baseball team )

* Robert C. " Bob " Dro, who played baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers and basketball on the Indianapolis Kautskys team.

As late as the 1940s, Matthews resembled a Western ghost town, before it attracted eleven glass factories and seduced the professional baseball team away from Indianapolis.

Greer Stadium was home to a rare baseball occurrence on August 6 and August 7, 1988, when Nashville and the Indianapolis Indians exchanged no-hitters on back-to-back nights.

At ABC, he covered such events as baseball games, the 1986-1987, college basketball, Indianapolis 500, the 1977 Monon Bell game between DePauw University and Wabash College, five Olympics, as well as the program Wide World of Sports.

After returning to the United States, he immediately began his baseball career with the Indianapolis ABC's in 1915.

Along with NBC programming, the Crosley / Avco stations in Ohio and Indianapolis also aired common programming, including The Paul Dixon Show, Midwestern Hayride, The Ruth Lyons 50-50 Club ( later to become The Bob Braun Show ), The Phil Donahue Show, and telecasts of Cincinnati Reds baseball.

The Indianapolis Indians are a minor league baseball team based in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Founded in 1902, the Indianapolis Indians are the second-oldest minor league franchise in American professional baseball, behind only the International League's Rochester Red Wings.

Although the club began in 1902, 1887 marked the beginning of 125 consecutive seasons of professional baseball in Indianapolis.

In 2011 the Indians commemorated the 125th season of professional baseball in Indianapolis with a commemorative logo patch on their jerseys.

Professional baseball was first played in Indianapolis in 1877.

It was during this time, when he was playing for a Semi-professional Indianapolis baseball team named the " Sturm Avenue Never Sweats ," that scouts first took notice of the speed with which he threw a baseball, and his effectiveness as a pitcher when he shutout touring National League baseball teams, the Boston Beaneaters and the Washington Senators.

This category includes baseball players for the team known as the Indianapolis Hoosiers ( Federal League, 1914 ).

Indianapolis Hoosiers was the name of three major league and at least three minor league baseball clubs based in Indianapolis, Indiana.

* Indianapolis Hoosiers ( minor league baseball )

The Newark Peppers, originally known as the Indianapolis Hoosiers, were a Federal League baseball team from 1914-1915.