Fort Wayne Baseball History

By Chad Gramling - Originally published in the NEIBA Line Drives June 2008 Newsletter During the recent Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball...

Ford Frick Sign in Wawaka, Indiana By Chad Gramling - Originally published in the NEIBA Line Drives September 2011 Newsletter I recently...

By Don Graham - Originally published in the NEIBA Line Drives December 2006 Newsletter Of all the famous baseball players who managed teams in the All American Girls Professional Baseball League, not one can equal oor surpass in stature Hall of Famer Jimmie Foxx who managed the Fort Wayne Daisies in 1952. Such famous major league players as Bill Wambsganss, Dave Bancroft, John Rawlings, Max Carey, Marty McManus and others have served as managers in the twelve year history of

This article has been written exactly as it appeared in "The Griswold-Phelps Handbook and Guide to Fort Wayne, Indiana (1913-1914). -...

By Carl Erskine - Originally published in the NEIBA Line Drives September 2007 Newsletter I had just retired from the Dodgers after...

MLB Hall of Famer, Chuck Klein got his professional baseball career started as a member of the Fort Wayne Chiefs.

By Tim Kindler - Originally published in the NEIBA Line Drives March 2001 Newsletter One of Fort Wayne baseball history’s most...

Fort Wayne’s place in baseball history will forever be remembered because of a historical opening day game that took place here in May of 18

The Semi-Pro club in Fort Wayne brought home three National Titles under the General Electric moniker in the late 1940s yet often go...