Connellsville Cokers (baseball)
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Previous classesClass D
Previous leagues
- Ohio–Pennsylvania League (1912)
- Pennsylvania–West Virginia League (1908–1909)
- Western Pennsylvania League (1907)
Previous names
- Connellsville (1914)
- Connellsville Cokers (1907–1909, 1912)
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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] Hy Myers and Huck Wallace.[2][3]