Brooklyn Bay Parkways

Brooklyn Bay Parkways
Information
LeagueInter-City Baseball Association
BallparkErasmus Field
OwnershipJoe Rosner, Nat Strong

The Brooklyn Bay Parkways was a semi-professional baseball team based out of Erasmus Field of Erasmus Hall High School. Owned by Joe Rosner, brother of Max Rosner, owner of the Brooklyn Bushwicks, as well as Nat Strong, a prominent figure in organizing various Negro League teams, the Bay Parkways belonged to the Inter-City Baseball Association and played in the local negro league as well as various other local teams.[1][2][3] Former players for the Bay Parkways include former Major League stars such as Carl Hubbell, Babe Ruth, Hal Schumacher, Pete Gray, and Blondy Ryan.[4][1][5]

References

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  1. ^ a b "BrooklynBallParks.com - the Semipros". www.covehurst.net. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
  2. ^ "Negro Leagues Baseball eMuseum: Personal Profiles: Nat Strong". nlbemuseum.com. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
  3. ^ Cieradkowski, Gary (2015). The league of outsider baseball: an illustrated history of baseball's forgotten heroes (First ed.). New York: Touchstone. ISBN 978-1-4767-7523-4. OCLC 883148236.
  4. ^ Timer, The Old. "The greats once took this long-lost Queens baseball diamond: Our Neighborhood, The Way it Was". QNS.com. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
  5. ^ "STAN FISCHLER COLUMN: History of the Bushwick Baseball Club worth a read". Daily Freeman. 3 May 2014. Retrieved 2021-03-23.