Category: Midwest League

1991 Quad City Angels Baseball Yearbook from the Midwest League

Quad City Angels (1985-1991)

December 17, 2023

The second edition of the Quad City Angels minor league baseball team played in the Illinois-Iowa border community from 1985 to 1991. The franchise fell on hard times in the mid-1980’s, including setting a Midwest League record for most losses in a season (91) in 1987. The ball club rebounded mightily in the late 80’s and early 90’s under new owner Rick Holtzman, winning the Midwest League crown in 1990 and setting new attendance records. The team changed its name to the Quad City River Bandits in 1992.

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1975 Cedar Rapids Giants Baseball Program from the Midwest League

Cedar Rapids Giants

March 5, 2023

Cedar Rapids, Iowa hosted the Class A Midwest League farm team of the National League’s San Francisco Giants for five summers between 1975 and 1979. Top players to emerge from Cedar Rapids during the Giants era included third basemen Bob Brenly (C-R ’77), outfielder Chili Davis (C-R ’78) and outfielder Rob Deer (C-R ’79). Following the 1979 season, the Cincinnati Reds replaced San Francisco as Cedar Rapids’ parent club and the team became the Cedar Rapids Reds in 1980.

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1992 Rockford Expos baseball program from the Midwest League

Rockford Expos

November 23, 2022

The Rockford Expos were an Illinois-based Class A farm club of the Montreal Expos from 1988 until 1992.  When Rockford’s owners were awarded a Midwest League expansion franchise in June 1987, it marked the return of professional baseball to the city for the first time since the departure of the Rockford Peaches of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in 1954.

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1960 Clinton C-Sox baseball program from the Midwest League

Clinton C-Sox

October 22, 2022

The Clinton C-Sox were an Iowa-based farm club of the American League’s Chicago White Sox from 1959 through 1965. Prior to hooking up with the White Sox in 1959, Clinton served as a minor league affiliate of the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1954 to 1958 and the club was known as the Clinton Pirates. In their finest season, the C-Sox won Class A Midwest League pennant in 1963, posting a 83-41 record and besting the 2nd place Burlington Bees by 11 games.

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1985 Clinton Giants baseball program from the Midwest League

Clinton Giants

November 25, 2021

Midwest League (1980-1993) Born: 1979 – Affiliation change from Clinton Dodgers Re-Branded: October 22, 1993 (Clinton LumberKings) First Game: April 12, 1980 (L 7-3, L

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