“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.”
The Panama Banqueros were one of six ball clubs in the doomed Inter-American League experiment of 1979. The league included the Miami Amigos plus five Caribbean teams in the Dominican Republic, Panama, Puerto Rico and Venezuela. Remarkably, the unproven Inter-American League received a Class AAA designation (one step below Major League Baseball) from the governing body of the minor leagues, the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues. This despite the fact that none of the teams had an affiliation with a Major League parent club.
Inter-American League (1979) Born: September 13, 1978 – Inter-American League founding franchise Folded: June 30, 1979 First Game: April 11, 1979 (L 6-5 @ Panama Banqueros) Last
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