Newark Skeeters

The Newark Skeeters, based in Newark, Ohio, picked up their name when the Grand Rapids Furniture Makers of the Class B Central League relocated there midway through the 1911 season, taking over the city's ballpark just days after the previous local team had left for Piqua, Ohio.

Playing out the rest of 1911 as the Skeeters, the team finished 59-78, seventh in the eight-team league. The following year, Newark moved into the Ohio State League and went 72-68 before the franchise folded.

In the 1800s and first half of the 1900s, teams existed in thousands of small towns across the United States, as Americans looked for recreational activities and entertainment in the era before TV.

The Central League itself was a Class B circuit that ran, often sporadically, from 1903 into the 1930s (with a later 1948-51 revival), fielding teams mostly from Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.