Category: Eastern League

1975 Quebec Carnavals baseball pocket schedule from the Eastern League

Quebec Carnavals

April 10, 2022

The Quebec Carnavals were one of two minor league baseball expansion franchises awarded to the province of Quebec during the winter of 1970-71. Both the Carnavals and Les Aigles de Trois-Rivieres were members of the Class AA Eastern League, which grew from six clubs in 1970 to eight in 1971 with the expansion into Francophone Canada. The Carnavals served as a farm team for the Montreal Expos and helped to develop future stars such as Gary Carter, Warren Cromartie and Steve Rogers.

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1971 Elmira Royals baseball program from the Eastern League

Elmira Royals

January 20, 2022

A rare Elmira, New York minor league baseball team NOT known as the Pioneers. The 1971 Elmira Royals won the Eastern League title in their only season of competition under the Royals name. But the team was remarkably unproductive for a Class AA farm team. Not a single member of the 1971 Elmira Royals would appear in the Majors beyond 1973.

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1959 Lancaster Red Roses baseball program from the Eastern League

Lancaster Red Roses (1958-1961)

January 17, 2022

The Eastern League’s 1958-1961 Lancaster Red Roses were the last of several incarnations of the Red Roses baseball club to play in the Pennsylvania city between 1905 and 1961.

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1946 Hartford Chiefs baseball program from the Eastern League

Hartford Chiefs

January 17, 2022

We’ve written about countless Minor League Baseball name changes here on Fun While It Lasted, but this may be the strangest circumstance for a re-brand that we’ve come across. From 1938 until 1952 Hartford, Connecticut served as the Class A farm club of the National League’s Boston Braves. But Hartford’s rival newspapers fell into a disagreement over the best name for city’s ballclub, with each choosing their own preferred name. Finally, Braves officials interceded in 1946 to create a consensus new identity: the Hartford Chiefs.

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