The Tri-State League was the name of five different circuits in American minor league baseball.
Video Tri-State League
History
The first league of that name played for four years (1887-1890) and consisted of teams in Ohio, Michigan and West Virginia.
The second league, played from 1904-1914, and had member clubs in Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Charles F. Carpenter was president from 1906 to 1913.
During the 1920s, two versions of the Tri-State League briefly existed: a 1924 loop with clubs in Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota, and a 1925-1926 association located in Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas.
The most recent incarnation of the league was the post-World War II Tri-State, a Class B circuit with clubs in Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina. This league, which played from 1946-55, typically included clubs in Charlotte, Asheville, Knoxville, Rock Hill and Spartanburg; most of its teams were affiliated with Major League Baseball farm systems.
The attendance crisis in the minor leagues of the 1950s - and the defection of clubs like Charlotte to higher-classification loops - eventually took its toll on the Tri-State League. In its last season, 1955, there were only four clubs in the league. Its last champion was the Spartanburg Peaches, an affiliate of the Cleveland Indians.
Maps Tri-State League
Teams
1887
- Played as Ohio State League
1888-1890
1904-1914
- Allentown (1912-1914)
- Altoona Mountaineers (1904-1909)
- Altoona Rams (1910-1912)
- Atlantic City (1912-1913)
- Camden (1904)
- Chester (1912)
- Harrisburg Senators (1904-1914)
- Johnstown Johnnies (1905-1908)
- Johnstown Jawns (1909)
- Johnstown Johns (1910-1912)
- Lancaster Red Roses (1905-1912, 1914)
- Lebanon (1904)
- Reading Pretzels (1907-1912, 1914)
- Shamokin (1905)
- Trenton Tigers 1907-1914
- Williamsport Millionaires (1904-1910)
- Wilmington Peaches (1904-1908)
- Wilmington Chicks (1911-1914)
- York Penn Parks (1904)
- York White Roses (1905-1907, 1909-1914)
1924
- Beatrice Blues
- Grand Island Islanders
- Hastings Cubs
- Norfolk Elk Horns
- Sioux City Cardinals
- Sioux Falls Canaries
1925-1926
- Blytheville Tigers (1925-1926)
- Corinth Corinthians (1925-1926)
- Dyersburg Deers (1925)
- Jackson Giants (1925)
- Jackson Jays (1926)
- Jonesboro Buffaloes (1925-1926)
- Sheffield-Tuscumbia Twins (1926)
- Tupelo Wolves (1925-1926)
1946-1955
- Anderson A's (1946)
- Anderson Rebels (1947-1954)
- Asheville Tourists (1946-1955)
- Charlotte Hornets (1946-1953)
- Fayetteville Cubs (1947-1948)
- Florence Steelers (1948-1950)
- Gastonia Rockets (1952-1953)
- Greenville Spinners (1951-1952, 1954-1955)
- Greenwood Tigers (1951)
- Knoxville Smokies (1946-1952, 1954)
- Reidsville Luckies (1947)
- Rock Hill Chiefs (1947-1955)
- Shelby Cubs (1946)
- Spartanburg Spartans (1946)
- Spartanburg Peaches (1947-1955)
- Sumter Chicks (1949-1950)
References
External links
- Baseball Reference - Tri-State League (Class B) Encyclopedia and History
- Baseball Reference - Tri-State League (Class D) Encyclopedia and History
- Baseball Reference - Western Tri-State League (Class D) Encyclopedia and History
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