Shreveport Sports

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Shreveport Sports
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League titles (3)
  • 1942
  • 1952
  • 1955
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NameShreveport Sports
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The Shreveport Sports were a professional Minor League Baseball team based in Shreveport, Louisiana, in the United States. The Sports fielded a team from 1925 to 1935, 1938 to 1942, 1946 to 1957, and 1959 to 1961. From 1938, as a member of the Texas League, then the Southern Association, they played at the second-highest level of the minors: Class A1 (through 1942) and Double-A (after 1945). The team (and the Texas League itself) suspended operations from 1943 to 1945 during World War II.

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When the farm system concept became widespread in the 1930s, the Sports were affiliated with the Detroit Tigers (1933–1934), Boston Red Sox (1935), Chicago White Sox (1939, 1942, 1946), and Kansas City Athletics (1959–1961). They were frequently operated independently of any Major League Baseball "parent club", including for 11 straight seasons between 1947 and 1957.


History

Professional baseball has been played in Shreveport at various levels since 1895, including several teams named the Shreveport Sports :

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Hall of Fame inductees

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Notes

  1. After their ballpark burned down, the 1932 team moved to Tyler, Texas, and finished the season as the Tyler Sports.

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