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Beckley Bengals

Minor League Baseball team

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ4878742 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Beckley Bengals were a Mountain State League baseball team based in Beckley, West Virginia, United States that existed from 1937 to 1938. They played under manager Eli Harris and won the league championship both seasons. They were affiliated with the Detroit Tigers in 1937.

Previously the Beckley Black Knights (later Beckley Miners) played in the Middle Atlantic League from 1931 to 1935.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Beckley Bengals” as minor League Baseball team. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Beckley, Bengals and Minor.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1937, 1938, 1931, 1935—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1931-01-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Beckley, Bengals and Minor providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Beckley Bengals”, the useful work is to connect “minor League Baseball team” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4878742. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1937, 1938, 1931 and 1935.

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This entry incorporates text from “Beckley Bengals” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.