Author: Tyler Saylor

Local papers are reporting that longtime pitcher Gerald Shearing, who has since 1910, been on the Oilers, will retire at season’s end. This article will look back towards the turn of the 20th Century where Mr. Shearing’s professional career began. During his career as a Pitcher for the LBL, The Maryland native himself has registered…

As the 1913 year gets underway for the Legacy Baseball League, this is a look back on the 1912 season in the Pittsburgh Gazette for the Pittsburgh Oilers Championship season, and their first Pennant win under their newfound GM, Mr. Tyler Saylor. After the Oilers Western League Championship loss in the 1911 season, 1912 they…

In 1911, the Pittsburgh Oilers had finished in 1st place yet again under the manangership of GM Tyler Saylor, bringing the Oilers to what is now a Back-to-Back Playoff appearence in a stunning turnabout of events for a team that had a history of medorcity. Despite their Playoff loss against the St. Louis Reds, the…

“We may have been meager for my first year as team Manager, but just you wait until the next, we’re gonna surprise everybody” was what New General Manager Tyler Saylor of the Pittsburgh Oilers said after the end of his first season after the Pittsburgh Oilers finished with a respectable 66-54 record last year in…

It was a quiet afternoon in the office of the new General Manager of the Pittsburgh Oilers, inside the office was the desk where the General Manager, Mr. Saylor sat. To the left of him was some shelf of what looked to be old memorabilia some items of note on that shelf were a white…