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Key West Cubs Baseball

Key West Cubs

The 1975 Key West Cubs marked the final summer of pro baseball in America’s southernmost outpost. The Chicago Cubs stocked their Florida State League farm club with a bumper crop of pitching talent including future Major League standouts Mike Krukow, Dennis Lamp and Donnie Moore and 2006 Hall-of-Fame inductee Bruce Sutter. Nevertheless, Key West finished dead last with a dreadful 37-94 record and the club moved to Pompano Beach in 1976.

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Key West Conchs Baseball 1952

1952 Key West Conchs

Today we take a look at the Key West Conchs, a Class B minor league baseball team that arrived in the Conch Republic midway through the summer of 1952 and stayed for just two months. Read more…

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