Riverside Park (1898–1901, 1905) League Park (1937) Colonels Park (1938–1942, 1946–1951)
The Rome Colonels was the primary moniker of minor league baseball teams based in Rome, New York between 1898 and 1951. Rome teams played as members of the New York State League (1898–1901), Empire State League (1905) and Canadian–American League (1937–1942, 1946–1951). The Colonels were preceded in Rome by the Rome Romans.
The Rome Colonels played as a minor league affiliate of the Philadelphia Phillies in 1942, Detroit Tigers from 1946 to 1949 and Philadelphia Athletics in 1951.
The RomeColonels was the primary moniker of minor league baseball teams based in Rome, New York between 1898 and 1951. Rome teams played as members of...
battalions (commanded by a lieutenant colonel) as a more convenient size of military unit and, as such, colonels have tended to have a higher profile in...
Leon Francis Riley Sr. (August 20, 1906 – September 13, 1970) was an American professional baseball player who became a manager in the minor leagues. During...
Edward John Boland (April 18, 1908 – February 5, 1993) was a Major League Baseball right fielder who played for three seasons. He played for the Philadelphia...
Class-C RomeColonels and later was promoted to Double-A Trenton Packers. He combined for a 1–7 record with a 4.24 earned run average in 48 games for Rome (12)...
Lynn Richard Lovenguth (November 29, 1922 – September 29, 2000) was an American professional baseball player. The right-handed pitcher played for 16 seasons...
Harold George White (March 18, 1919 – April 21, 2001) was an American professional baseball player, a right-handed pitcher for the Detroit Tigers (1941–43...
Edward Lawrence Turchin (February 10, 1917 – February 8, 1982) was an American professional baseball infielder. He played one season in Major League Baseball...
also spent a few seasons managing in the minors with the Red Roses, RomeColonels, Moline A's, Hagerstown Owls, and Harrisburg Senators. Following his...
Clarence Hampton "Buck" Etchison (January 27, 1915 – January 24, 1980) was an American professional first baseman who played for the Boston Braves in parts...
Dale Wesley Matthewson (May 15, 1923 – February 20, 1984) was a professional baseball player. He was a right-handed pitcher over parts of two seasons (1943–44)...
Joseph William Kiefer [Harlem Joe or Smoke] (July 19, 1899 – July 5, 1975) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Chicago White Sox...
George Reynolds "Rinso" Marquette (1924-2008) was a college men's basketball coach and college student affairs administrator. He was the head coach of...
Regime of the Colonels was a right-wing military dictatorship that ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974. On 21 April 1967, a group of colonels overthrew the...
He managed in the minor leagues from 1948 to 1950, skippering the RomeColonels the first two years and the West Palm Beach Indians in the last. Smoll...
Pennsylvania, U.S. Playing career Football c. 1935 West Chester Baseball 1942 RomeColonels Coaching career (HC unless noted) Football c. 1938 Upper Yoder HS (PA)...
(135), as a member of the Oneonta Indians. (However, Leon Riley of the RomeColonels led the league in home runs that season.) The performance earned Knickerbocker...
in one eye. Before returning to Corsica he met Benito Mussolini in Rome. Colonel Cristofini was a supporter of the union of Corsica with Italy and defended...
Red Norris B Salisbury Athletics Interstate League Bunny Griffiths C RomeColonels Canadian–American League Buck Etchison D Tarboro A's Coastal Plain League...
The Axis powers, originally called the Rome–Berlin Axis and also Rome–Berlin–Tokyo Axis, was a military coalition that initiated World War II and fought...
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