The Wisconsin Rapids Twins were a long-time farm club of the Minnesota Twins, enjoying a 20-year run in the Class A Midwest League between 1964 and 1983. The W-R Twins helped to develop future Stars for Minnesota’s 1987 World Series championship team, including sluggers Gary Gaetti and Kent Hrbek, who were teammates at W-R in the summer of 1980. The franchise moved south the Kenosha, Wisconsin in December 1983.
The Waterloo Diamonds were the last professional baseball team to make a home in the Eastern Iowa city of 68,000. The departure of the Diamonds in 1994 brought to an end a largely uninterrupted 90-year minor league tradition stretching back to the formation of the Waterloo Microbes in 1904.
The Beloit Brewers were the Class A Midwest League farm club of the Milwaukee Brewers from 1982 through 1994. The franchise still operates today in Beloit. The club is currently known as the Beloit Sky Carp after two subsequent re-brandings.
Midwest League (1984-1992) Born: 1984 – The Wisconsin Rapids Twins relocate to Kenosha, WI Move Announced: March 1992 (Fort Wayne Wizards) First Game: April 13, 1984
The South Bend White Sox were the Midwest League Class A farm club of the Chicago White Sox for six seasons from 1988 until 1993. Located 90 miles southeast of Chicago’s Comiskey Park, the White Sox were South Bend’s first professional baseball team since 1954, when the South Bend Blue Sox of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League went of business. South Bend won Midwest League titles in 1989 and 1993 under the White Sox banner.
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