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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]
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]
Pages in category "Professional baseball teams in Louisiana" The following 44 pages are in this category, out of 44 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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.
The Houma Indians was the primary moniker of the minor league baseball teams based in Houma, Louisiana between 1940 and 1952. Houma teams played as exclusively as members of the Evangeline League. The Houma Indians won the 1946 and 1948 Evangeline League Championships. In 1946, four Houma players were implicated in a baseball gambling scandal.
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.
Source:The Baseball Encyclopedia (10 ed.). Macmillan General Reference. 1996. ISBN 978-0028608150. Note: Team names are given here according to the convention used by The Baseball Encyclopedia, which regularized them into the familiar form of modern team names.