Category: Southern League

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.