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April 19, 2010

Minor League Baseball: the International League, the 14 ball clubs and their ballparks.

Filed under: Baseball, Baseball: Triple-A — admin @ 8:12 am

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The International League is a Triple-A league, one of the two top-ranked minor leagues in the Major League Baseball farm system. [The other Triple-A league is the Pacific Coast League.]
Reigning champions are the Durham Bulls, the top minor league affiliate of the Tampa Bay Rays. The Bulls swept the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees in 3 games  last September, to claim the Governor’s Cup.

Here is the official site of the minor leagues,  Minor League Baseball.com… MiLB.
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On the map, I have ball club profile boxes which contain the franchise history of each team (note- this is not the same as the minor league baseball history of each city, because just as major league teams (ie, franchises) can move from city to city, so too can minor league teams). I also have the full lists of MLB affiliations of each team, including the logo of each minor league team’s present-day parent-club.  Then there are a couple photos of each team’s ballpark, with capacity and opening date listed.

At the lower left on the map page, there is an article on the roots of the International League, and then brief histories of the three oldest teams in the league…the Rochester Red Wings, the Indianapolis Indians, and the Toledo Mud Hens. 

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Below- 2009 average attendances of International League teams, with the ball clubs’ current logos and home caps.

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Thanks to Little Ballparks.com {click here}.   Thanks to Ballpark Reviews.com {click here}.

Thanks to the contributors to the pages at en.wikipedia.org {click here (set at International League page)}.  
Thanks to http://international.league.milb.com/ , for information on the early history of the league.

2 Comments »

  1. Great map of the International League! I always thought it was funny there isn’t any teams outside the U.S. though. Go Pigs!!!

    Comment by Joe — April 26, 2010 @ 9:35 am

  2. Response to Comment: Thanks, Joe. Montreal, Toronto, and even Havana, Cuba are international cities that had teams in the IL in the past. The Montreal Royals operated from 1897 to 1917 and from 1928 to 1960. Jackie Robinson got his pro start here… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Royals
    Torinto Maple Leafs (baseball team) played in the IL from 1946-67. Ottawa had a team in 1951, and then had the poorly-attended Ottawa Lynx team from 1993 to 2007. Before Castro and his revolution in Cuba, Havana had a team in the IL from 1954 to 1960, the Havana Sugar Kings…
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havana_Sugar_Kings

    Comment by admin — April 26, 2010 @ 11:38 am

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