page_title: Andy Kyle
section_title: Hockey
hierarchical_section_title: Andy Kyle / Hockey
caption_attribution_description: English: Canadian ice hockey team Moncton Victorias during the 1912–13 MaPHL season.
context_page_description: Andrew Ewing Kyle was a Canadian Major League Baseball outfielder and National Hockey Association defenseman. He was the first person to play both baseball and ice hockey professionally.
context_section_description: As an ice hockey player, Kyle played junior with the Eurekas in Toronto in the 1908–09 season. He was team captain and led the Eurekas to the Ontario Hockey Association finals, where they lost to Stratford. In September 1909, he announced that he was giving up hockey to become a full-time silver prospector in Northern Ontario, but returned after seven weeks. He was captain of the Parkdale Canoe Club senior team for the 1909–10 season until leaving to join the Maple Leafs' baseball training camp.
  Kyle played with the professional team in Port Hope, Ontario, for the 1910–11 season and worked as a referee following an injury. He continued as a referee in 1912. He attended the inaugural training camp of the Toronto Blueshirts in 1912, but left the team before the season began to play for Moncton Victorias of the MaPHL. He played there for two seasons. He was captain of the team in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, early in the 1914–15 season. Kyle rejoined the Blueshirts in the National Hockey Association for the 1916–17 season.
  Kyle died in his hometown of Toronto at the age of 81, and he is buried at Park Lawn Cemetery.
caption: Kyle, first from right in the middle row, with the Moncton Victorias in 1912–13.
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