The Sioux City Soos of 1947-1958 were the fourth and final baseball club to play under the “Soos” name in the Northwest Iowa city. Earlier versions of the Soos played in 1904, 1908-1909 and 1940-1941. The latter day Soos joined the Class A Western League for its inaugural season in the summer of 1947. Sioux City won three Western League playoff crowns during a nine-year working agreement with the New York Giants of the National League.
The Evansville Braves were a Class B farm club of the Boston and Milwaukee Braves from 1946 until 1957. Evansville won four Three-I League titles during the 12-year Braves era and helped to developed future Major Leaguers such as Wes Covington (Evansville ’53), Lee Maye (’55-’56) and Bob Uecker (’57).
The Des Moines Demons were a short-lived Class B farm club of the Philadelphia Phillies in the Illinois-Indiana-Iowa League (typically known as the “Three-I League”) from 1959 to 1961. Key players included Ray Culp, Pat Corrales and Cal Emery.
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