Editing Oil City, Pennsylvania (section)

== Sports ==
The '''[[Oil City Oilers]]''' were a [[Minor League Baseball]] team located in Oil City, Pennsylvania between 1940 and 1951. The team played in the [[Pennsylvania State Association]] from 1940 to 1942, and later moved to the [[Middle Atlantic League]] after [[World War II]] ended. The team began in 1940 when the [[Pittsburgh Pirates]] relocated their affiliate, the [[McKeesport Little Braves]], to Oil City. The team stayed affiliated with the Pirates until 1947, when it began an affiliation with the [[Chicago White Sox]]. That year, the team's name was changed to the '''Oil City Refiners'''. The team's name was changed one last time to the '''Oil City A's''', when they merged with the [[Youngstown A's]], in 1951. The team then folded, along with the league, at the end of that season.

The Oilers name originated from the [[Oil City Oilers]] earlier team that represented the city in the 1895 and 1898 [[Iron And Oil League]] and the [[Oil City Cubs]], who played as members of the [[Interstate League]] from 1906 to 1908.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/team.cgi|title=Oil City, Pennsylvania Encyclopedia|website=Baseball-Reference.com}}</ref><ref name="encyc">{{cite book |title=The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball |editor1-first=Lloyd |editor1-last=Johnson |editor2-first=Miles |editor2-last=Wolff |edition=Third |publisher=[[Baseball America]] |date=2007 |isbn=978-1932391176}}</ref>

=== Notable alumni ===
* [[Otto Denning]]
* [[Mike Garbark]]
* [[Al Gionfriddo]]
* [[Elmer Klumpp]]
* [[Junior Walsh]]
* [[Hal Woodeshick]]
* [[Rudy York]]