[1] In April, Alexander Bannwart drew notice by acquiring Big Jeff Pfeffer to manage the team in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
[3] Upon these news reports, some of the founding members of the Colonial League resigned, fearing banishment by the National Baseball Commission.
Later in the 1914 season, Bannwart drew anger when he attempted to make last-minute changes to the schedule designed to increase competitiveness in the standings and maximize profits at the box office.
[8] After the season, Bannwart unsuccessfully petitioned the National Commission to reclassify the Colonial League as Class B.
[9] At the April 1915 league meeting, Coppen was re-elected as president and Bannwart was elected secretary.
[15] The Colonial was one of many minor leagues that briefly existed during the post-World War II baseball boom.
Only two of its member teams (the 1948 Bridgeport Bees and Port Chester Clippers) ever affiliated with a big league parent club (the Washington Senators and St. Louis Browns, respectively).
It shut its doors on July 14, 1950, with only 80,000 fans reported to have attended games in the entire six-team circuit.