Greenville Majors
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The Greenville Majors minor league baseball team played in the East Texas League (1946), Big State League (1947–1950, 1953) and Sooner State League (1957).[1] It was based in the American city of Greenville, Texas. The club was affiliated with the New York Yankees, whom they defeated in a 1949 home game at Majors Stadium.[2] Both the stadium and team were named after Lt. Truett Jay Majors, the first youth from Greenville to be killed in WW2.[3]
Major league alumni
References
- ^ BR Minors page
- ^ Museum, Courtesy Audie Murphy/American Cotton. "Majors win over Yankees to be remembered". Herald-Banner. Retrieved 2018-08-07.
- ^ "Lt. Truett Jay Majors". Texas History Notebook. 2015-05-25. Retrieved 2018-08-07.
- ^ BR minor league team pages
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