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 | | Another contemporary report said "In the latter part of 1878 and 1879, Holyoke had, we believe, as good a baseball nine as there was in the country. |
 | | Smiling Mickey Welch, Roger Connor, and Pat Gillespie, afterwards famous with the New York Giants; James (Chief) Roseman, later star fielder of the New York Metropolitans; Powell, afterwards with the Detroits, and last but not least, R.C. Winchester, made a hard-hitting combination that was unsurpassed." [5] |
 | | During the time when the former Troy players' futures were unsettled, Gillespie and Mickey Welch were included in Buck Ewing's negotiations with O.P. Caylor of the Cincinnati American Association team, to move the three players to that franchise. |
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