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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 of
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 ...
The original South Atlantic League was founded in 1904 by Charles W. Boyer and J.B. Lucy as a Class C league, equivalent to an Advanced Rookie league in the pre-2021 minor league scheme. [1] After a year of dormancy in 1918, it continued at that classification from 1919 to 1920 before being elevated to Class B (equivalent to short-season Class ...
Gastonia first hosted minor league baseball in 1923, when the "Gastonia Comers" played a partial season as members of the Class B level South Atlantic League. [1] The first Gastonia Cardinals team was immediately preceded in minor league play by the 1938 "Gastonia Spinners," who played a portion of the season as members of the Independent level Carolina League in the final season of the league.
Spartanburg placed fourth in the six-team South Atlantic League final standings, as Mike Kelly served his first full season as the player/manager for Spartanburg. [67] The Spartans ended the 1922 South Atlantic League regular season with a record of 63–68, finishing 18.5 games behind the first place Charleston Pals. No league playoffs were held.
After winning the second half of the season in the Northern Division, the Grasshoppers went on to beat the Savannah Sand Gnats in five games to win the South Atlantic League championship, their first title in 29 years. In 2012, the Grasshoppers won the SAL Northern Division first half championship by posting a record of 46–24.
Just two years later, in 1942, the Rebels won the South Atlantic League Championship ending a 20-year championship drought. However, the next year, the Rebels posted a losing record. 1947 started out with a bang as the Rebels were promoted to Class A and drew 184,851 fans in the season, a Charleston baseball record that stood until 1997.
The club won the South Atlantic League championship in 1986, 1991 and 1998. [ 6 ] Following the 2004 season, the Bombers changed affiliations and became the affiliate of the Boston Red Sox , who had previously been affiliated with the SAL's Augusta GreenJackets .