West Tennessee Diamond Jaxx
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
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
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.
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
“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.”
Florida State League (1963-1972) Southern League (1973-1989) Born: 1963 Re-Branded: August 30, 1989 (Orlando Sun Rays) First Game: April 22, 1963 (L 15-3 @ Daytona
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