HudsonHawk
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That certainly sounds like a company team -- especially in areas where industrial league sports was popular, companies would hire men solely for their ballplaying skills and find some make-work job for them to do in the plant to justify it. A talented player could make a good living playing industrial ball in the Era.
I don't have a copy of the 1939 Base Ball Guide, but I suspect it would yield a more complete statistical line for the 1938 season.
I wonder what would happen if the Rath Blackhawks took on the Nippon Ham Fighters?
One of my great disappointments in life was when I learned that they were the Nippon Ham “Fighters”, not the Nippon “Ham Fighters”.