Uniontown Coal Barons
April 5, 2018
The Uniontown Coal Barons were a Class C farm club of the Pittsburgh Pirates that competed in the Middle Atlantic League from 1947 through 1949. Uniontown, located 45 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, was a city of 20,000 at the time, built on steel mills and the coal industry. The city’s population has fallen by more than 50% since World War II and pro baseball never returned to Uniontown after the Coal Barons disbanded during the winter of 1949-50.
