Pittsburgh Filipinos
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| name = Pittsburgh Filipinos
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| city = Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
| misc = 1912
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[*] – The Filipinos finished in first place during the USBL's inaugural season, which lasted only one month, with a 19-7 record.
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| colors = Black, gold (1912){{cite news|newspaper=The Pittsburgh Post|date=April 27, 1912|page=10|title=Pittsburgh's Official Colors Will Be Worn by New Ball Club|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/86180873/|via=Newspapers.com}}{{cite news|newspaper=The Pittsburgh Post|date=June 29, 1912|page=18|title=Fils' Lineup Is Selected|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/86289505/|via=Newspapers.com}} {{color box|black}} {{color box|gold}}
Green, silver{{citation needed|date=October 2021}} {{color box|#009A49}} {{color box|#C0C0C0}}
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| owner = Marshall Henderson
| manager = Deacon Phillippe
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The Pittsburgh Filipinos were a minor league baseball club based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The team began play in 1912 in the United States Baseball League. The team played all of its home games at Exposition Park, located on Pittsburgh's Northside.{{cite book|last1=Dave|first1=Finoli|last2=Bill|first2=Ranier|title=The Pittsburgh Pirates Encyclopedia|date=2015|publisher=Sports Publishing|location=New York, N.Y.|isbn=978-1-61321-719-1|edition=2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jsSBCgAAQBAJ|access-date=6 December 2016}} The Filipinos were named in honor of their manager, Deacon Phillippe, a former pitcher with the Pittsburgh Pirates and a member of their 1901, 1902, 1903 and 1909 National League pennant winning teams as well as their 1909 World Series championship team.{{cite web|title=The United States Baseball League |first=Brendan |last=Macgranachan |publisher=Seemheads.com |url=http://seamheads.com/2010/01/08/the-united-states-baseball-league/|date=January 8, 2010 |access-date=December 7, 2016}}
The Filipinos finished in first place during the league's inaugural season, which lasted only one month, with a 19-7 record.{{cite web | url = http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/NASSH_Proceedings/NP1976/NP1976zi.pdf |first = Rudolf K. |last = Haerle |title = The United States Baseball League of 1912: A Case Study of Organizational Failure | publisher = LA84 Foundation | access-date = 2016-12-07}}
In 1913, the team became a charter member of the Federal League, which was launched as an independent minor league. The club was renamed that season as the Pittsburgh Stogies after an earlier Pittsburgh team that played in the Union Association in 1884. The following season, the Federal League declared itself a major league, and the team would become known as the Pittsburgh Rebels.{{cite book |title= The Federal League of Base Ball Clubs: The History of an Outlaw Major League|last= Wiggins |first= Robert Peyton |year= 2008 |publisher= McFarland |location=Jefferson, North Carolina |isbn= 978-0-7864-3835-8 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=4yDtlquCJiYC |access-date= August 8, 2011}}