Edmonton Eskimos (baseball)
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- For the professional hockey club from the 1920s see Edmonton Eskimos (hockey)Edmonton Eskimos (hockey)The Edmonton Eskimos were a Canadian amateur and later professional men's ice hockey team that existed from 1905 to 1927. The Eskimos challenged three times for the Stanley Cup, losing each time; in 1908 versus the Montreal Wanderers, in 1910 versus the Ottawa Senators, and Ottawa again in 1923...
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The Edmonton Eskimos were a baseball
Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
team that played in the class-D Western Canada League from 1909 until the league's demise in 1914 (when they were known as the Esquimos), and later in a revival of the league between 1919 and 1921. They were known as the Gray Birds in 1912 and 1913. They joined the Western International League
Western International League
The Western International League was a mid- to higher-level circuit in American and Canadian minor league baseball. It operated in 1923, 1937-42, and 1946-54. In 1955, it changed its name to the Northwest League, and still operates today as a Short Season A loop under that name.The WIL consisted of...
for one season in 1922. The team played in the Big Four League for the entirety of its four-year existence, from 1947-1950. They were also members of the Western International League in 1953-54.