Heritage: The Former 'Sally League'
The current Class A South Atlantic League came into being in 1980 as the successor to the former Western Carolinas League.
The original SAL - often colloquially called the "Sally League" - was a higher-classification circuit that played from 1904 to 1917, 1919–30, 1936–42 and 1946-63. The old South Atlantic League grew from Class C status to class B (through 1942), then Class A (until 1962). In its final season, it was elevated to AA. The league then morphed into the current AA Southern League in 1964 and the South Atlantic League name disappeared from the minor league baseball rolls through the end of the 1979 season.
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