The Little Rock Travelers were an American minor league baseball team located in Little Rock, Arkansas, and members (1902–1910, 1915–1958, 1960–1961) of the Southern Association, which as a Class A, A1 or AA circuit was typically two rungs below Major League Baseball. When farm systems came into being in the 1930s, the Travelers were at different times affiliated with the Boston Red Sox, Detroit Tigers, Kansas City Athletics, and Baltimore Orioles. After attracting less than 68,000 paying customers over a 77-game home schedule in 1958, the Travelers moved to Shreveport, Louisiana, in 1959, but they returned to the Southern Association in 1960 as the relocated New Orleans Pelicans franchise. But the Association was in its death throes, and the Travelers went down with the entire league after the 1961 season.
In 1963, organized baseball returned to Little Rock with the Arkansas Travelers of the AAA International League. In 1964-65, Arkansas played in the AAA Pacific Coast League before settling in the AA Texas League, where the Travelers have played since 1966. Currently, the Arkansas Travelers are the AA affiliate of the Los Angeles Angels.
The team's name derives from the old folk song, The Arkansas Traveler.
The team played at Travelers Field starting in 1932, a facility that would long outlast its original tenant. Previously the team had played at Kavanaugh Field.
Famous quotes containing the words rock and/or travelers:
“each rock a word
a creek-washed stone
Granite: ingrained
with torment of fire and weight”
—Gary Snyder (b. 1930)
“This ferry was as busy as a beaver dam, and all the world seemed anxious to get across the Merrimack River at this particular point, waiting to get set over,—children with their two cents done up in paper, jail-birds broke lose and constable with warrant, travelers from distant lands to distant lands, men and women to whom the Merrimack River was a bar.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)