Connellsville Cokers (baseball)

Class-level
Connellsville Cokers 1907–1914 (1907–1909, 1912, 1914) Connellsville, Pennsylvania
Previous	Class D
Minor league affiliations
League	Pennsylvania–West Virginia League (1914)
Previous leagues	Ohio–Pennsylvania League (1912) Pennsylvania–West Virginia League (1908–1909) Western Pennsylvania League (1907)
Team data
Previous names	Connellsville (1914) Connellsville Cokers (1907–1909, 1912)

The Connellsville Cokers, based in Connellsville, Pennsylvania, USA, were a professional minor league baseball team that played in the Western Pennsylvania League in 1907, the Pennsylvania–West Virginia League in 1908 and 1909 and the Ohio–Pennsylvania League in 1912. An un-nicknamed Connellsville team then played in the PWVL in 1914. They were the first professional baseball team to be based in Connellsville.^[1]

Notable players include major leaguers Roy Ellam,^[2] Hi Myers and Huck Wallace.^[2]^[3]

References

Teams

Pennsylvania–West Virginia League

Teams	Charleroi Charleroi Cherios Clarksburg Bees Clarksburg Drummers Connellsville Cokers Fairmont Fairmont Badies Fairmont Champions Grafton Grafton Wanderers McKeesport Royals Parkersburg Parkers Scottdale Millers Uniontown Uniontown Coal Barons

Western Pennsylvania League

Teams	Beaver Falls Beavers Butler White Sox Clarksburg Bees Connellsville Cokers Cumberland Rooters Fairmont Champions Greensburg Red Sox Kittanning Infants Latrobe Piedmont Scottdale Giants Somerset Infants

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