The Bryan Bombers were a Class-C minor league baseball team based in Bryan, Texas that played in the Lone Star League (1947–1948) and East Texas League (1949).
6-643: Major league players Jo-Jo Moore , Stan Goletz , Jesse Landrum and Mel Deutsch played for the team. Goletz and Landrum also managed it. In 1953, the Greenville Majors of the Class B Big State League , moved to Bryan on June 25, 1953 and finished the 1953 season playing as the Bryan Majors . Renamed the Bryan Indians in 1954, Bryan moved to Del Rio, Texas on July 28, 1954 and finished
12-609: A left fielder in Major League Baseball who played his entire career with the New York Giants from 1930 through 1941. Moore batted left-handed and threw right-handed. He was born in Gause, Texas and nicknamed the "Gause Ghost." He was 5' 11" and weighed 155 pounds. Moore was an intimidating, left-handed-hitting leadoff man , a line-drive hitter who hit over .300 five times in his major league career and led
18-478: The 1937 Series he tied a record of the time by collecting nine hits in a five-game series. In a 12-season career, Moore was a .298 hitter with 79 home runs and 513 RBI in 1335 games. Defensively, he recorded a .975 fielding percentage as an outfielder. In 16 World Series games, he hit .274 with one home run and three RBI. After the 1941 season, Moore was sold to the Cincinnati Reds. He played full-time in
24-516: The 1954 season as the Del Rio Indians . The team was 17-24 at the time of the move. They finished 53-93. The franchise folded after the season. The Bombers played their home games at Travis Field . This article about a baseball team in Texas is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Jo-Jo Moore Joe Gregg Moore, Sr. (December 25, 1908 – April 1, 2001) was
30-627: The National League in at-bats in 1935. The free-swinging Moore never struck out more than 37 times in a season, collecting only 247 SO in 5427 at-bats (4.6%). In 1932, Moore enjoyed a 20-game hitting-streak despite appearing in just 86 games. His most productive season came in 1934, when he collected a career-high .331 batting average with 106 runs , 192 hits , 15 home runs and 37 doubles . A year later he fell to .295, but collected 201 hits with 108 runs, nine triples and 71 RBI , all career numbers, while adding 15 home runs. During
36-546: The next three seasons Moore hit .316, .310 and .302, with a career-high 205 hits in 1936. Underrated because he was overshadowed by more colorful teammates, Moore was a fixture for the Giants in left field. He appeared in three World Series ( 1933 , 1936 – 37 ), and six times was named to the National League All-Star team (1934–38 and 1940). In the 1933 Series Moore had two hits in one inning, and in
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