Category: Three-I League

Rochester Athletics

July 4, 2022

The Rochester Athletics were a Minnesota-based minor league baseball team that played part of one season in the Class B Three-I League during the summer of 1958. The A’s served as a farm team for Major League Baseball’s Kansas City Athletics. Several Rochester A’s players eventually advanced to the Major Leagues. The best was 22-year old shortstop Dick Howser. With attendance lagging around 500 souls per game at midseason, the club moved 44 miles east to Winona and finished out the season as the Winona A’s.

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Terre Haute Huts

April 29, 2022

The Terre Haute Huts of 1955-1956 were the last professional baseball team to make their home in Terre Haute, Indiana. Between 1919 and 1956, The Wabash Valley metropolis was a long-time fixture in the so-called Three-I League (short for Illinois-Indiana-Illinois) between 1919 and 1956. The Huts would end that era with a whimper, withdrawing from the league in midseason on July 3rd, 1956.

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Appleton Foxes Midwest League

Fox Cities Foxes / Appleton Foxes

April 19, 2021

Illinois-Indiana-Iowa League (1958-1961) Midwest League (1962-1994) Born: 1958 Re-Branded: September 13, 1994 (Wisconsin Timber Rattlers) First Game: April 27, 1958 (W 9-2 @ Davenport DavSox) Last Game:

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1958 Burlington Bees baseball program from the Three-I League

Burlington Bees (1954-1981)

May 25, 2020

Illinois-Indiana-Iowa League (1954-1961) Midwest League (1962-1981) Born: 1954 Re-Branded: Fall 1981 (Burlington Rangers) First Game: April 20, 1954 (L 3-1 @ Quincy Gems) Last Game: September 1, 1981

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Cedar Rapids Braves Midwest League

Cedar Rapids Braves

September 16, 2019

The Cedar Rapids Braves were a farm club of the National League’s Milwaukee Braves from 1958 to 1962. The Braves played in the Class A Three-I League from 1958 until that league closed down after the 1961 season. Cedar Rapids then shifted to the Class D Midwest League in 1962 for the city’s final summer as a Braves affiliate.

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