4-730: The Tifton Phillies were a Georgia–Florida League baseball team based in Tifton, Georgia , USA that played during the 1956 season. They were affiliated with the Philadelphia Phillies . They were managed by Wes Griffin and later Edward Miller. However the team was first established in 1949 as the Tifton Blue Sox and was a member of the Georgia State League . The team moved to the Georgia–Florida League in 1951. In 1954,
8-463: 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
12-553: The team was known as the Tifton Indians , after their major league affiliate, the Cleveland Indians . This article about a baseball team in the U.S. state of Georgia is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . 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
16-632: 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
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