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The South Atlantic League of Minor League Baseball is one of three High-A baseball leagues in the United States. A league champion is determined at the end of each season. Champions have been determined by postseason playoffs, winning the regular season pennant, or being declared champion by the league office.
The South Atlantic League name went unused for 16 years, but in 1980 the Western Carolinas League brought back the name when it sought to change its identity. For nearly 60 years, 1948 through 2007, the dominant figure in the WCL/SAL was league founder and president John Henry Moss , who started the WCL as a young man in 1948, refounded it in ...
Each of the 12 teams of Minor League Baseball's South Atlantic League carry a 30-man active roster. [1] Only these players are eligible to play. Teams may have any number of inactive players on their rosters at a given time who do not count toward active roster limits. Injured players may be placed on the injured list (7-day or 60-day). [2]
They became a farm club of the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1999 and won the South Atlantic League championship in 2002 and 2004. Hickory has been affiliated with the Texas Rangers since 2009. The Crawdads won a third SAL championship in 2015. They moved to the High-A East in 2021, but this was renamed the South Atlantic League in 2022.
The Asheville Tourists are a Minor League Baseball team of the South Atlantic League and the High-A affiliate of the Houston Astros. It is located in Asheville, North Carolina . Asheville teams have played under the Tourists moniker in different leagues and classifications for over a century, with the earliest dating to 1897.
The team led the South Atlantic League in either average or total attendance every year through 2016, [7] and became the fastest team in league history to reach the two and three million fan attendance mark. On August 26, 2002, the BlueClaws set a South Atlantic League record when 13,003 people attended a 3–0 win over the Hickory Crawdads ...
List of South Atlantic League champions; H. ... List of South Atlantic League team rosters This page was last edited on 3 December 2024, at 23:22 (UTC). ...
The 1941 South Atlantic League was a Class B baseball season played between April 21 and September 8. Eight teams played a 140-game schedule, with the top four teams qualifying for the playoffs. The Columbia Reds won the South Atlantic League championship, defeating the Macon Peaches in the final round of the playoffs.