The Poughkeepsie Chiefs were a Class B minor league baseball team that played in the Colonial League from 1947 until the league’s demise in 1950. In 1947, the franchise was known as the Poughkeepsie Giants. The Colonial League included teams from New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania. In 1950, the Chiefs stood atop the Colonial League (43-26) when the financially ailing loop folded in mid-season on July 15th.
The Waterbury Timers were a minor league baseball club that played for three seasons and part of a fourth in the small Western Connecticut city from 1947 to 1950. The Timers were founding members of the Colonial League, a Class B loop that included teams from Connecticut, New Jersey and New York. The team’s most notable player was 1949 player-manager Bert Shepard, a one-legged WWII veteran and former POW who became the first amputee to play in a Major League Baseball game with the Washington Senators in August 1945. The Timers and the rest of the Colonial League disbanded midseason in July 1950.
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