The Cordele Reds were a minor league baseball team based in Cordele, Georgia in various seasons from 1906-1955.
6-792: Cordele played in the Class-D Georgia–Florida League from 1936–1942 and 1946–1955. The city was originally represented by a team in the Georgia State League in 1906, with a team simply noted as Cordele . In 1913, the city was represented in the Empire State League with the Cordele Babies . The following season, the team moved into the Georgia–Florida League, as the Cordele Ramblers . After 22-year hiatus,
12-463: A handful of in-season franchise shifts (and no in-season team foldings), its member clubs frequently switched affiliations and identities. In 1963 , the minor leagues reorganized and the Georgia–Florida League was designated Class A. But there were only four teams in the '63 GFL, and its champion, the Thomasville Tigers , a Detroit affiliate, attracted only 7,234 fans over the entire course of
18-747: A team reemerged in the Georgia–Florida League was the Reds, as an affiliate of the Cincinnati Reds in 1937. The team became briefly known as the Cordele Bees from 1939–1940. They had affiliation an agreement with the Atlanta Crackers in 1938. After World War II, the team became known as the Cordele White Sox , as they were an affiliate of the Chicago White Sox . The following season, the team became
24-767: The Cordele Indians and an affiliate of the Cleveland Indians . In 1950, the team's name changed once again to the Cordele Athletics , as they became an affiliate of the Philadelphia Athletics . In 1954, the team merge with a team from Americus, Georgia to become the Americus-Cordele Orioles , and affiliate of the Baltimore Orioles . Finally the team underwent a final name-change in 1955, as
30-630: The Cordele Orioles , before folding. The 1937 team won the Georgia–Florida League Championship under manager Ivy Griffin . The Cordele teams played at Standard Field. The field is still in use as a multi-use baseball/softball field, located at 302 N. 2nd Street Cordele, Georgia 31015. Georgia%E2%80%93Florida League The Georgia–Florida League was a minor baseball league that existed from 1935 through 1958 (suspending operations during World War II) and in 1962–1963. It
36-632: Was one of many Class D circuits that played in the Southeastern United States during the postwar period—a group that included the Georgia State League , Georgia–Alabama League , Florida State League , and the Alabama State League . The GFL's longest-serving clubs represented Moultrie , Thomasville and Albany , all in Georgia . While it managed to survive the downturn in minor league baseball attendance through 1958 and experienced only
#7992