West Tennessee Diamond Jaxx
March 16, 2021
Southern League (1998-2010) Born: 1997 – The Memphis Chicks relocate to Jackson, TN Re-branding Announced: September 6, 2010 (Jackson Generals) First Game: April 2, 1998
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Mobile Athletics
November 12, 2020
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.
Jacksonville Suns (1970-2016)
June 26, 2020
Southern League (1970-1984 & 1991-2016) Born: 1970 – Southern League expansion franchise Re-Branded: November 2, 2016 (Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp) First Game: April 16, 1970 (L 6-5
Six Summers in Knoxville: Donn Seidholz
February 24, 2020
“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.”
Orlando Twins
January 21, 2020
In 1963, the Minnesota Twins placed a Class A Florida State League farm club in Orlando, continuing the organization’s presence at Tinker Field through the summer months, going back to the parent club’s time as the Washington Senators.