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Photo Courtesy of Jason Wong. USC orientation brought some big surprises. Wong juggled political science and history majors while volunteering as a community service coordinator for a fraternity. After graduation, Wong attended Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York so he could be near his family. Seven football seasons later, Wong and Han are engaged.

Today, Wong is a deputy chief counsel for the U. Alumni Life Alumni. It seemed that the hardworking citizens of Troy did not want to go nor did they have the time to invest in watching their home town club.

Although the Trojans never had a season record over. Some players were even talented enough to become Hall of Famers later in their careers. The most well-known player for the Trojans was Tim Keefe. Keefe began his Major League Baseball career with the Trojans in and played with the Trojans until the franchise was no more. Keefe would go on to win two World Series and would become a Hall of Famer later in his playing career.

In total, four future of Hall of Famers started their careers with the Troy Trojans. Applications for admission to membership from the Metropolitan and the Philadelphia Clubs were recovered, and will be acted upon in December. It seemed the record low attendance of six people at the Worcester and Troy game did not go over well for Major League Baseball in the end.

Unfortunately, much of the Troy Trojans history has disappeared, but one impact the franchise had is now seen across the country in San Francisco. In the Unions of Lansingburgh, who played in what is now Knickerbacker Park, traveled down the Hudson to beat the vaunted New York Mutuals, thereupon earning the derisive nickname of "Haymakers. He later became a policeman in Troy.

The first baseball superstar, Mike "King" Kelly, was a Troy boy, too, though he only played there while passing through for the Cincinnati Reds and Chicago White Stockings who went through several names before settling on Cubs. Troy was left out when the National League was formed in , but the Haymakers were invited back by NL president William Hulbert after the '78 season.

Renamed the Trojans, they finished dead last in '79, though they did sign a future Hall of Famer, Dan Brouthers. Troy actually had five future immortals in uniform in , but, unfortunately, player-manager Bob "Death to Flying Things" Ferguson didn't think Brouthers was much of a ballplayer, so the first baseman saw action in only three games and barely got a chance to know Connor, Ewing, Welch and Keefe.

Brouthers made out OK, batting at least. Connor took over at first base and became the city's most romantic figure. In a delightful book on Troy baseball, Jeffrey Michael Laing writes, "Since the club had no uniform big enough to fit him, he was sent to the shirt factory where a local woman, Angeline Meir, was working as a seamstress. She took his measurements both literally and, apparently, figuratively as well.

They married and remained so for 47 years. It was Connor who would set the major league record for career home runs that Babe Ruth broke. Ewing was baseball's first modern catcher, a fiery presence who squatted close to the batter despite the absence of a chest protector, using hand signals to call for pitches and throwing out baserunners from a crouch.

Welch and Keefe would win major league games between them. Perhaps the greatest tribute to the quartet's prowess was that they kept Troy relevant. The Trojans actually finished in the first division, fourth in the eight-team league at But by the next year, the writing was on the wall -- the other NL owners had to chip in to keep the franchise solvent. And by the end of the '82 season, charity turned into reality. Troy put up a brief fight to keep the team, but on Dec.

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