Springfield Rifles (Baseball)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Springfield Rifles was an Eastern League minor league baseball team based in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA that existed in 1932 and from 1942 to 1943. They were affiliated with the New York Yankees in 1932 and with the New York Giants in 1943. Some notable players are Spud Chandler, Chet Covington, Lou Fette, Whitey Lockman, Tommy Neill, Frank Rosso, Steve Shemo and Joe Stephenson. The Eastern League of 1916 through the mid-season of 1932 was an American minor baseball league and the third of four circuits to use the Eastern League name since the 19th century. The successor to an early 20th century edition of the New England League, it is not related to the current Eastern League, which formed in 1938 from the former New York-Pennsylvania League, or the current International League, which was known as the Eastern League from 1892 through 1911.