History
They club through a number of affiliations and names during their existence. The team was originally a Brooklyn Dodgers affiliate known as the Valdosta Dodgers. The Dodgers' affiliation last from 1946 to 1952. In 1953, the Dodgers moved their Georgia-Florida League team to Thomasville, to become the Thomasville Dodgers. However, the St. Louis Browns took over the Valdosta team, which was then renamed the Valdosta Browns. A year later, the Browns left and the Detroit Tigers moved their Georgia-Florida League team to Valdosta. The renamed Valdosta Tigers then played from 1954 to 1958.
The Tigers were the second Georgia-Florida League team to occupy Valdosta. The first team to do so was the Valdosta Trojans, an affiliate of the Pittsburgh Pirates, and later the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Read more about this topic: Valdosta Tigers
Famous quotes containing the word history:
“The history of literature—take the net result of Tiraboshi, Warton, or Schlegel,—is a sum of a very few ideas, and of very few original tales,—all the rest being variation of these.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“It’s not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)
“No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.”
—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)