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Originally Posted by Eugene Church

Wow!!

Great News!!

Special thanks to lukaberger for bringing this huge oversight to Spritze and Markus' attention... Kudos to them, too, for including it.

In reality the Southern Association and the Texas League were vital to MLB teams... they were the only Double A leagues... many Major Leaguers passed through these two important leagues.

The only differences in the Major Leagues and the Double A players were mainly these:

the Major League players could hit breaking balls... and the Major League pitchers had breaking balls, control, command and location of their pitches... that made them superior to the Double A players, who could throw just as hard as the MLB pitchers... their stuff was just as good.. but they couldn't locate like the Majors... the Double A batters could hit MLB fastballs, but couldn't handle the breaking stuff.

When the Double A players had command of their pitches and when they could hit breaking balls, they made the Majors.

Brooklyn would play Mobile in Spring Training on Vero Beach and sometimes in Mobile at Hartwell Field... the Dodgers won, but the games were usually competitive... rarely runaways.


In 1956 these Southern Association teams had working agreements:

Mobile Bears (Brooklyn)
Birmingham Barons (New York Yankees)
New Orleans Pelicans (Pittsburgh)
Chattanooga Lookouts (Washington)
Memphis Chicks (Chicago White Sox)
Nashville Vols (Cincinnati)
Little Rock Travelers (Detroit)
Atlanta Crackers (Milwaukee Braves)

Texas League working agreement or ownership

Houston Buffaloes (St. Louis Cardinals)
Dallas Eagles (New York Giants)
Tulsa Oilers (Chicago Cubs)
Fort Worth Cats (Brooklyn)
San Antonio Missions (Baltimore)
Austin Senators (Milwaukee Braves)
Oklahoma City Indians (Boston Red Sox)
Shreveport Sports (Independent)

Seconded, echoed, rubber-stamped and heartily endorsed.