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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]
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.
These blocks forced the major league teams to reassign the players to other leagues. Due to boycotts, the 1956 playoff finals, featuring Lafayette, were cancelled. Both the Lafayette Oilers and the Baton Rouge Rebels folded before the end of the 1957 season, on June 20 1957. [15] [1] Minor league baseball returned to Lafayette, Louisiana in 1975.
The New Orleans Black Pelicans were a minor Negro league baseball team that played in the first Negro Southern League and were based in New Orleans, Louisiana.They were formed in 1926 to replace the New Orleans Ads in the league and played at Pelican Stadium. [1]
The New Iberia Cardinals were an Evangeline League baseball team that played under various names from 1934 to 1956. From 1934 to 1942, 1946 to 1947, in 1949 and in 1953, they were known as the New Iberia Cardinals. They were based in New Iberia, Louisiana, and were affiliated with the St. Louis Cardinals from 1935 to 1941 and the Boston Red Sox ...
The Shreveport–Bossier Captains were a professional baseball team based in Shreveport, Louisiana, in the United States. [1] Following the 2011 season, the team was sold to new ownership and moved to Laredo, Texas, to continue play as the Laredo Lemurs.
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.
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]