Category: Southern League

West Tennessee Diamond Jaxx Southern League

West Tennessee Diamond Jaxx

Southern League (1998-2010) Born: 1997 – The Memphis Chicks relocate to Jackson, TN Re-branding Announced: September 6, 2010 (Jackson Generals) First Game: April 2, 1998

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Mobile Athletics Southern League

Mobile Athletics

Minor League Baseball returned to Mobile, Alabama in 1966 after a four-year absence. Kansas City Athletics owner Charles O. Finley transferred his team’s Class AA Birmingham farm club to the Azalea City after failing to come to an agreement for a new lease on Birmingham’s Rickwood Field. During the A’s lone summer in Mobile, the ball club ran away with the 1966 Southern League pennant, thanks to a club packed with future Major League stars such as Sal Bando, Rick Monday and Blue Moon Odom. Following the 1966 season, Finley moved the team back to Birmingham.

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Jacksonville Suns Southern League Baseball

Jacksonville Suns (1970-2016)

Southern League (1970-1984 & 1991-2016) Born: 1970 – Southern League expansion franchise Re-Branded: November 2, 2016 (Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp) First Game: April 16, 1970 (L 6-5

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Donn Seidholz Knoxville Sox Interview

Six Summers in Knoxville: Donn Seidholz

“I went through the system and came up with a lot of kids. Tony La Russa was the manager at Knoxville in 1978. We had Harold Baines and Dick Dotson and Britt Burns and I was kind of the Crash Davis person.”

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1975 Orlando Twins baseball program from the Southern League

Orlando Twins

Florida State League (1963-1972) Southern League (1973-1989) Born: 1963 Re-Branded: August 30, 1989 (Orlando Sun Rays) First Game: April 22, 1963 (L 15-3 @ Daytona

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