Heinie Scheer
Overview
Second baseman
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in Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball
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. He played for the Philadelphia Athletics
Oakland Athletics
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from 1922 to 1923.
Born in The Bronx
The Bronx
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, New York City
New York City
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, he played baseball for the Tremont Triangles, Highbridge Athletics, Bronx Giants, Brooklyn Bushwicks
Brooklyn Bushwicks
The Brooklyn Bushwicks were an independent, semi-professional baseball team that played its games almost totally in Dexter Park in Queens from 1917 to 1951. They were unique at their time for fielding multi-ethnic rosters. They played what amounts to exhibition games against barnstorming Negro...
, and Bay Parkways. He began his professional baseball career in 1921 playing for the Hartford Senators
Hartford Senators
The Hartford Senators were a minor league baseball team based in Hartford, Connecticut. They operated in the Connecticut League from 1902-1912, the Eastern Association from 1913-1914, the Eastern League from 1916-1932 and the Northeastern League in 1934. For the 1932 season they were affiliated...
in the Eastern League
Eastern League
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. In his first year of professional baseball, Scheer impressed observers by playing error free baseball for the first 23 games of the season.