PHOTOS COURTESY © GARY JARVIS www.minorleague ballparks.com Dwyer Stadium I Batavia New York Home of the Batavia Clippers and Batavia Trojans NY-Penn League (Short Season Single-A) |
As good as the Batavia Pirates were in 1963... was as bad (if not worse) as they
were in 1964. Putting up an abhorrent record of 33-97 (.254) with two pitchers…
Richard Voss and Thatch McLeod sharing 1-10 records. Amazingly this awful team
would produce the best player yet to come from Batavia as future All-Star and
owner of a future MLB no-hitter, Dock Ellis would go 6-7 with a 3.20 ERA at the
age of 19. In the Pirates final season at Dwyer Stadium, Batavia put up a very
mediocre 47-75 record despite featuring 2 time All-Star Woodie Fryman (3-1, 1.50),
future 19 year MLB veteran Gene Garber (4-3, 3.50) and 3 time All-Star Pirates
catcher Manny Sanguillen (.235). As the Pirates pulled out of Batavia and
no affiliate coming to the rescue, Batavia went back to its roots, becoming a co-op
team. They changed their name to the Batavia Trojans and somehow managed to
play better baseball as an indy when the Trojans managed to attract two future
big league managers. |