Researching Joe Simmons
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The name Joe means "form of JOSEPH - God shall add" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of Joe Simmons on Ancestry
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Joe Simmons (baseball)
Joseph S. Simmons, born as Joseph S. Chabriel, (June 13, 1845 – July 24, 1901) was an American Major League Baseball player and manager from New York City. Joe played three seasons in the National Association, the last year he was player-manager for the Keokuk Westerns, a team that would win just one game of the 13 that they played. He later became the manager for the Wilmington Quicksteps of the Eastern League. Late in the season, after winning the Eastern League title, the Quicksteps joined the Union Association as a replacement team, but won only 2 of their 18 games.
Joe died in Jersey City, New Jersey at the age of 56, and was buried at the Bayview – New York Bay Cemetery in Jersey City under his birth name of Chabriel.
Source: Joe Simmons (baseball), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaJoe Simmons (coach)
Joseph F. Simmons (June 5, 1895 – March 4, 1973) was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach. He served as the head football coach at Central Michigan University for one season in 1920, compiling a record of 4–3–1. He was also the head basketball and head baseball coach at Central Michigan during the same academic year. Simmons graduated from Carthage College, where played football, basketball, and baseball, and ran track. He coached high school football at South Milwaukee High School in the late 1920s and at Milwaukee Country Day School from 1928 to 1936. He was an assistant football coach at Yale University from 1937 to 1939.
Source: Joe Simmons (coach), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
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