Follow along please

Usually when a sports team moves from one city to another in midseason, its a fairly easy thing. A team either has poor attendance or their home burns down or even their owner goes broke, then the team finds a new team, gets league permision and starts playing home games in a new city.

Whatever you do, do not tell William Buckley of the Watertown-Massena Club of the Canadian-American League. Buckley was the clubs Business Manager. The team began the season in Watertown, New York. On June 24, 1936 the club began playing their home games in Massena, New York. On June 30, Buckley announced that the club was being transferred to Massena for the remainer of the season. Now keep your eye on the team, where it stops nobody knows. On July 12, the club played a home game, where else?? Watertown, of course. On July 16, Buckley announced that the club would remain in Watertown for the remainer of the season. The biggest thing was that Buckley had never submitted the proper paperwork to the National Association for them to approve the move in the first place. Perhaps he should have paid more attention to how the team was doing on the field as they finished the season with a 35-52 record.

Tomorrow we look at events making history in the All-American Girls League.