The small city of Huron, South Dakota hosted a short-season Class A farm team of the Chicago Cubs during the summers of 1969 and 1970. The Huron Cubs developed six future Major League ballplayers, headlined by pitcher Rick Reuschel, who would go on to win 214 Major League games over 19 seasons and earn enshrinement in the Chicago Cubs Hall-of Fame.
Northern League (1956-1957) Born: 1956 Folded: February 14, 1958 First Game: May 4, 1956 (W 4-2 vs. Eau Claire Braves) Last Game: September 2, 1957
The Watertown Expos were a short-lived South Dakota farm club of the Montreal Expos that competed in the Class A Northern League during the summers of 1970 and 1971. By this time, the venerable Northern League was on its last legs. The circuit fielded just four ball clubs during the summer of 1971. Montreal pulled the plug on its Watertown operation in November 1971 and the rest of the Northern League gave up the ghost a few months later. Professional baseball has never returned to Watertown, South Dakota since the Expos departure in 1971.
A short-lived Class A farm club of the New York Mets that lasted for just two seasons in the small city of Mankato, Minnesota in 1967 and 1968. Mankato was the second rung on New York’s developmental ladder, just above their rookie level Appalachian League club in Marion, Virginia. Most of Mankato’s players were young prospects in their late teens or early twenties.
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