The Texas Negro League was a Negro baseball league organized in 1924 and lasted until 1949.
4-504: (Teams listed in alphabetical order) 1949 Birmingham Blues Ft. Worth Giants Hot Springs New Orleans Creoles Oklahoma City Braves Shreveport Tigers San Antonio *The New Orleans Creoles won the championship. This Negro league baseball -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This baseball organization article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Birmingham Blues (baseball) The Birmingham Barons are
8-783: A Minor League Baseball team based in Birmingham, Alabama . The team, which plays in the Southern League , is the Double-A affiliate of the Chicago White Sox and plays at Regions Field in downtown Birmingham. The Barons were previously located in Montgomery, Alabama , and known as the Montgomery Rebels . Most of the professional baseball teams that have played in Birmingham have used
12-478: The name Barons. The current team began playing in Birmingham in 1981, having previously played in Montgomery, Alabama as the Montgomery Rebels . Like previous Barons teams, they played at Rickwood Field on a full-time basis from 1981 to 1987. Since then, they have only played at Rickwood on special occasions. From 1988 to 2012, the team played at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium in the suburb of Hoover, Alabama , where former basketball star Michael Jordan played with
16-619: The team in 1994 . Since 2013, the team plays at Regions Field in the downtown part of Birmingham. As a result of Major League Baseball 's restructuring of Minor League Baseball in 2021, the Barons were organized into the eight-team Double-A South. In 2022, the Double-A South became known as the Southern League, the name historically used by the regional circuit prior to the 2021 reorganization. In 2023, Diamond Baseball Holdings purchased
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