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Art and Dan Rooney in their Wheeling Stogies uniforms, 1925.
A talented athlete, Art Rooney played baseball with brother Dan for the Middle-Atlantic League's Wheeling Stogies in the early 1920s. A great baseball fan, Rooney, after purchasing a franchise in the National Football League in 1936, named his team the Pirates. He would rename them the Steelers in 1940.