The Texas League is a Minor League Baseball league which has operated in the South Central United States since 1902. It is classified as a Double-A league. Despite the league's name, only its five South Division teams are actually based in the state of Texas ; the five North Division teams are located in Arkansas , Kansas , Missouri , and Oklahoma . The league temporarily operated for the 2021 season as Double-A Central before reassuming its original moniker in 2022.
6-515: The Greenville Hunters were a Texas League (1906), North Texas League (1907) and East Texas League (1924-1926) baseball team based in Greenville, Texas . Pepper Martin played for them. This article about a baseball team in Texas is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Texas League The Texas League was founded in 1902, although it traces its lineage back to
12-483: A bloop hit, a soft fly ball that falls for a hit beyond the infielders' reach but too short for the outfielders to catch, has been extant since at least 1903 and was common throughout American baseball in the 20th century and to some degree into the 21st. The source of the idiom is not known but among other theories has been attributed to Ollie Pickering 's feat in a Texas League game of April 4, 1901, in which he made seven such hits in succession. Talk of this singular feat
18-524: A predecessor founded in 1888. The league was founded in 1888 and ran through 1892. It was refounded in 1895 and ran through 1899 (under the name Texas Association in 1895 and Texas-Southern League in 1896). The Texas League was revived as a Class D league in 1902, moved to Class C in 1904 where it played through 1910 (except for 1906 as Class D again), played at Class B until 1920, and finally moved up to Class A in 1921. The Texas League, like many others, shut down during World War II. From 1959 to 1961,
24-683: Is supposed to have spread widely, bringing the term with it. Around the advent of the 21st century, the Texas League witnessed a great deal of change. Teams once known as the Jackson Mets , El Paso Diablos , Shreveport Captains , and Wichita Wranglers all relocated to new cities and bigger stadiums. In 2019, the San Antonio Missions relocated to Amarillo, Texas , becoming the Amarillo Sod Poodles . At
30-823: The Texas League and the Mexican League formed the Pan American Association . The two leagues played a limited interlocking schedule and post-season championship. By 1971, the Texas League and the Southern League had both decreased to seven teams. They played an interlocking schedule with the Southern League known as the Dixie Association . The two leagues played separate playoffs. The Texas League has operated its own schedule since 1972. The term "Texas Leaguer" to describe
36-761: The same time, the Triple-A Colorado Springs Sky Sox of the Pacific Coast League (PCL) moved to San Antonio to continue on as the Missions at the Triple-A level. The start of the 2020 season was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic before ultimately being cancelled on June 30. As part of Major League Baseball's 2021 reorganization of the minor leagues, the Texas League was temporarily renamed to "Double-A Central" for
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