Player Bio and Team History:
Patrick Joseph Livingston (January 14, 1880 – September 19, 1977) was a Major League Baseball catcher who played for seven seasons. Paddy Livingston was a catcher 23 years (1898-1920), seven in the Majors (1901; 1906; 1909-1912; 1917) and 21 in the minors (1898-1905; 1907-1908; 1910-1920).
Livingston was 21 years old when he broke into the big leagues in 1901, with the Cleveland Blues. He played for the Blues (1901); the Cincinnati Reds (1906); the Philadelphia Athletics (1909-1911); the Cleveland Naps (1912); the Indianapolis Indians (1913-1914); and the St. Louis Cardinals (1917), where he played his final major league game on at age 37. He returned to the minors until 1920, ending his baseball career at age 40. He also starred with the champion Toledo Mud Hens (1912-1913).
He was reputed to be the record holder for fewest strikeouts, 500 or more career ABs, although that record is in dispute because of limited record-keeping.
Livingston was a popular, good-natured, well-liked man who was famous for being frugal. Reportedly, in spring training in 1906 with Cincinnati, he lived the entire camp on the first $25 expense check that was given out for the first week.
After his playing career ended, Livingston was a Philadelphia Athletics coach in 1919. He then worked 43 years for the city of Cleveland's bridge maintenance department, retiring in 1963. Paddy was the last surviving player from the inaugural season of the American League in 1901 and also the oldest living ex-player when he died at age 97 in St. John's Hospital in Cleveland. He is buried at Calvary Cemetery in Cleveland.
The Indianapolis Indians originated in 1902 as members of the American Association (AA), which was an independent league at the time but was granted Class A status in 1903. Since then, the Indians have played at the highest level of Minor League Baseball, though the terminology has changed. Indianapolis remained in the AA until the league disbanded after the 1962 season. They were briefly members of the International League (1963) and Pacific Coast League (1964–1968) before returning to the revived American Association in 1969. When the league dissolved a second time after the 1997 season, the Indians rejoined the IL in 1998. In conjunction with Major League Baseball's restructuring of the minors in 2021, they were shifted to the Triple-A East, but this was renamed the International League in 2022.