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The St. Paul Saints were a 20th-century Minor League Baseball team that played in the American Association from 1901 to 1960 in the city of St. Paul, Minnesota. The 1920, 1922, and 1923 Saints are recognized as being among the 100 greatest minor league teams of all time .
Baseball, Minnesota is a television documentary series that premiered on the FX Network. [1] The show followed a minor league baseball team, the St. Paul Saints , through the 1996 season. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Until the FX network's format change in 1997, this was the only television series that was neither live nor a rebroadcast of a syndicated series.
The St. Paul Saints, [1] [2] also known as the Apostles [3] or the White Caps, [4] [5] were a replacement Major League Baseball team that represented St. Paul, Minnesota in the short-lived Union Association, which existed for the 1884 season only. The team began the 1884 season in the Northwestern League as the Apostles. [6]
St. Paul Saints (NoL/AA) (1993–2014) Midway Stadium was the name of two different minor league baseball parks in Saint Paul, Minnesota , United States, both now demolished. The name derived from the location of the stadium in Saint Paul's Midway area , so named because it is roughly halfway between the downtowns of Minneapolis and Saint Paul.
Lexington Park was the name of a former minor league baseball park in St. Paul, Minnesota. It was the home of the St. Paul Saints from 1897 through 1956, when it was replaced by the first version of Midway Stadium. Lexington Park was commissioned by baseball owner Charlie Comiskey to serve as home for his St. Paul Saints Western League baseball ...
In June 2009, the Saints began a push to build a new stadium in Downtown Saint Paul. The proposed 7,500-seat stadium would be located in the Lowertown neighborhood near a planned maintenance facility for the METRO Green Line light rail. The city of Saint Paul requested $25 million in its 2010 bonding wish list to the Minnesota Legislature. [5 ...
A week later, the team's last game at the Met was a 1-0 shoot-out playoff victory over the Tulsa Roughnecks. The team's last game played was a home playoff loss, 3–0 to the Fort Lauderdale Strikers, on September 6, 1981. The game was moved to Memorial Stadium due to a scheduling conflict with the Twins. An abandoned Metropolitan Stadium ...
The Omaha Dodgers were the transplanted St. Paul Saints of the American Association, a longtime Los Angeles Dodgers farm team that was displaced after the 1960 season when the Minnesota Twins moved from Washington, D.C., to bring Major League Baseball to Minneapolis-St. Paul.