The Wilkes-Barre Indians were an Eastern League baseball team that played from 1949 to 1951. They were based in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania

Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania

Wilkes-Barre is a city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, the county seat of Luzerne County. It is at the center of the Wyoming Valley area and is one of the principal cities in the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre metropolitan area, which had a population of 563,631 as of the 2010 Census...

, USA and were managed by Bill Norman

Bill Norman

Henry Willis Patrick "Bill" Norman was an American outfielder, coach, manager and scout in Major League Baseball. A longtime minor league player and manager, he is best remembered for his brief term as pilot of the Detroit Tigers in 1958-59.Norman was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and served as a...

. They won a league championship in 1950 and made the league playoffs each year they played.

Notable players

Multiple notable players spent time with the team, including Bob Chakales

Bob Chakales

Robert Edwards Chakales [sha-kuh'-les] was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who played with four different clubs between the 1951 and 1957 seasons. Listed at 6'1", 185 lb., Chakales batted and threw right-handed...

, Harry Simpson

Harry Simpson

Harry Leon "Suitcase" Simpson was an African American outfielder and first baseman in Major League Baseball who played for a number of teams. He played in the World Series with the New York Yankees in 1957, where they lost....

, Al Smith, Doug Hansen

Doug Hansen

Douglas William Hansen was a Major League Baseball player who played for one season. He played for the Cleveland Indians for three games during the 1951 Cleveland Indians season, scoring two runs as a pinch runner....

, Sam Jones

Sam Jones (baseball)

Samuel Jones , known during his career as "Toothpick Sam" Jones or "Sad Sam" Jones, was a Major League Baseball pitcher who played from to ....

, Dave Pope

Dave Pope

David Pope was an American Major League Baseball outfielder who played for four seasons in MLB for the Cleveland Indians in 1952, and from 1954 to 1955...

, Jose Santiago, Dave Hoskins

Dave Hoskins

David Taylor Hoskins was an American professional baseball player: a right-handed pitcher who appeared in 26 games for the Cleveland Indians of Major League Baseball during the 1953 season and 14 games during the 1954 campaign....

 and Don Mossi

Don Mossi

Donald Louis Mossi, , was an American major league pitcher from 1954 to 1965. He was a left-handed control pitcher whose strikeout-to-walk ratio was regularly amongst the league leaders . He retired with a career earned run average of 3.43, 101 wins, and 50 saves.- Biography :Mossi was born in St...

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