Rowland, Clarence “Pants”

Clarence “Pants” Rowland was born in Platteville, Wisconsin, and raised in Dubuque, Iowa. Rowland started his baseball career in Dubuque as a player and then manager of the Dubuque Three-I League team. Rowland won the 1917 World Series managing the Chicago White Sox for Dubuque’s adopted son Charles Comiskey. Rowland would go on to be an American League umpire, scout for the Chicago Cubs, President of the Pacific Coast League, and VP for the Chicago Cubs. Rowland and his PCL peers came close to turning their league into a third major league in the 1940s.

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