Mansfield Pioneers

Mansfield Pioneers
1887–1941
(1887-1890, 1893, 1897-1900, 1906-1912, 1936-1937, 1939-1940)
Mansfield, Ohio
Class-level
Previous
  • Class D (1912)
  • Class C (1910-1911)
  • Class D (1908-1909)
  • Class C (1906-1907)
  • Class B (1897-1900)
Minor league affiliations
League
Minor league titles
League titles 1 (1889)
Team data
Previous names
  • Mansfield Brownies (1911-1912)
  • Mansfield Reformers (1910)
  • Mansfield Pioneers (1907-1909)
  • Mansfield Giants (1906)
  • Mansfield Haymakers (1897-1900)
  • Mansfield Electricians (1893)
  • Mansfield (1887-1890)

The Mansfield Pioneers was a name used by a minor league baseball club, based in Mansfield, Ohio, and played periodically between 1887 and 1912. The team first began play in the Ohio State League in 1887 as simply Mansfield. The following season, the club moved to the Tri-State League until 1890. After a three-year hiatus, Mansfield once again fielded a new team, the Mansfield Electricians and played the 1893 season in the short-lived Ohio-Michigan League. No team was then fielded until 1897, when the city fielded the Mansfield Haymakers in the Interstate League.

In 1906 the city was represented in then Ohio-Pennsylvania League with the Mansfield Giants. The club changed its name to the Pioneers in 1907 until 1909. The team was once again renamed the Mansfield Reformers in 1910 and the Mansfield Brownies in 1911. In 1912 the club moved back to the Ohio State League for their final season.

Year-by-year record

(from Baseball Reference Bullpen)

Year Record Finish Manager Notes
1887 46–56 6th Sandy McDermott, Bob Allen & Frank O'Brien
1888 43–74 6th Frank Torreyson, Frank O'Brien,
James Green & Ed Darrow
1889 49 25 1st George Greer League Champs
1893 19–19 3rd Cal McVey
1897 63-61 5th Con Strouthers & Barton Howard
1898 71-–75 6th Barton Howard
1899 86–54 2nd Dan Lowney
1900 67–68 5th Dan Lowney
1906 59–77 7th Carl McVey
1907 55–84 T6th Carl McVey
1908 76–73 4th Carl McVey & Tim Flood
1909 63–58 3rd Tim Flood
1910 60–66 5th George Fox
1911 55–82 5th Ed Hahn, Les Channell & Frank Reynolds
1912 72–67 2nd Barry McCormick & Walter East

References