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
From 1962 until 2016, Jacksonville’s minor league baseball clubs were known as the Suns, except for 1969 when Wolfson Park sat empty for a summer and this stretch from 1985 to 1990 when the city’s Southern League ball club adopted the identity of their Major League parent club, the Montreal Expos.
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