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Alexandria Black Aces – Negro league baseball [3] Alexandria Hoo Hoos (1909) – Arkansas State League [4] Alexandria Lincoln Giants – Negro league baseball [3] Alexandria Reds (1925–1930) – Cotton States League [4] Alexandria Tigers (1920) – Louisiana State League [4] Alexandria White Sox (1907–1908) – Gulf Coast League [4]
The early Lafayette teams preceded the 1975 and 1976 Lafayette Drillers, who played as members of the Texas League and the 1998 to 2000 Bayou Bullfrogs of the Texas-Louisiana League. Lafayette teams played as minor league affiliates of the St. Louis Browns from 1936 to 1941, Chicago Cubs from 1955 to 1957 and San Francisco Giants in 1975 and 1976.
Monroe first hosted minor league baseball in 1903, when the Monroe "Hill Citys" began play as members of the six-team Class D level Cotton States League. [1] The Sports were immediately preceded in minor league play by the Monroe White Sox, who played their final season in the Cotton States league in 1941. [2]
Minor league baseball teams were based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in various seasons between 1902 and 2003. The Baton Rouge minor league teams played as members of the Cotton States League (1902–1906, 1929–1932), Dixie League (1933), East Dixie League (1934), Evangeline League (1946–1957), Gulf States League (1976), All-American Association (2001) and Southeastern League (2002–2003).
In Jackson's only season with New Orleans (1910), he hit .354 to win the league batting title and led the team to the pennant with an 87–53 record. The following year, he would hit .408 with the American League's Cleveland Naps. [10] In the 1950s, the team was associated with the Pittsburgh Pirates and was managed by Danny Murtaugh.
The Shreveport Sports were a professional Minor League Baseball team based in Shreveport, Louisiana, in the United States. The Sports fielded a team from 1925 to 1935, 1938 to 1942, 1946 to 1957, and 1959 to 1961. They were affiliated with the Chicago White Sox in 1939, 1942, and 1946.
They joined the Texas-Louisiana Negro League in 1930, and by 1935 they were an independent club. [1] When the second Negro Southern League formed in 1945, the Black Pelicans were charter members, [ 1 ] but did not affiliate with the league again until 1950.
Minor league baseball teams were based in Lake Charles, Louisiana in various seasons between 1906 and 1957. Lake Charles teams played as members of the South Texas League (1906), Gulf Coast League (1907–1908), Cotton States League (1929–1930), Evangeline League (1934–1942), Gulf Coast League (1950–1953) and Evangeline League (1954–1957).