Everything about The Tri-state League totally explained
The
Tri-State League was the name of five different circuits in
American minor league baseball.
The first league of that name played for four years (1887-1890) and consisted of teams in
Ohio,
Michigan and
West Virginia. The second, which played from 1904-14, had member clubs in
Delaware,
New Jersey and
Pennsylvania. 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 1925-26 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.
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