The Chattanooga Choo-Choos were a minor league Negro league baseball team based in Chattanooga, Tennessee . The team was a member of the Negro Southern League , which was considered a minor league for the duration of the Choo-Choos' affiliation, and fielded a team from 1940 until 1946 . The Choo-Choos played their home games at Engel Stadium . The team is noted as the first professional baseball organization for which Hall of Famer Willie Mays played.
4-537: The Chattanooga chapter of the Society for American Baseball Research is named in honor of the team. This article about a baseball team in Tennessee is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Negro league baseball team article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Chattanooga metropolitan area The Chattanooga, TN-GA metropolitan statistical area , as defined by
8-453: A household in the MSA was $ 44,197, and for a family was $ 40,841. Males had a median income of $ 30,985 versus $ 22,305 for females. The per capita income for the MSA was $ 17,414. The Chattanooga–Cleveland–Dalton, TN–GA–AL Combined Statistical Area is made up of six counties in southeast Tennessee, three counties in northwest Georgia, and one county in northeast Alabama. The statistical area includes
12-546: The United States Office of Management and Budget , is an area consisting of six counties – three in southeast Tennessee ( Hamilton , Marion , and Sequatchie ) and three in northwest Georgia ( Catoosa , Dade , and Walker ) – anchored by the city of Chattanooga . As of the 2020 census , the Chattanooga metropolitan area had a population of 562,647. This metropolitan area traverses two time zones. As of
16-406: The census of 2010, there were 528,143 people, 189,607 households, and 132,326 families residing within the MSA. The racial makeup of the MSA was 83.14% White , 13.90% African American , 0.30% Native American , 0.97% Asian , 0.05% Pacific Islander , 0.61% from other races , and 1.03% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.49% of the population. The median income for
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