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The TCL played its inaugural season in the summer of 2004 with eight teams in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, and was co-founded by Wayne Poage, former athletic director at Dallas Baptist University, and a company controlled by Gerald W. Haddock, a minority owner and General Counsel of the Texas Rangers from 1989 to 1998.
Amarillo, Texas: Folded Amarillo Gold Sox (2) 1976 1982 Amarillo, Texas: Relocated to Beaumont, Texas, as the Beaumont Golden Gators: Amarillo Sod Poodles: 2019 – Amarillo, Texas: Active Amarillo Sonics: 1965 1967 Amarillo, Texas: Renamed the Amarillo Giants: Ardmore Rosebuds: 1961 1961 Ardmore, Oklahoma: Folded Ardmore Territorians: 1904 ...
The Amarillo Sod Poodles, nicknamed the Soddies, are a Minor League Baseball team of the Texas League and the Double-A affiliate of the Arizona Diamondbacks. They are located in Amarillo, Texas , and play their home games at Hodgetown in downtown Amarillo.
There are ten stadiums in use by Texas League (TL) baseball teams. The oldest stadium is Nelson W. Wolff Municipal Stadium (1994) in San Antonio, Texas, home of the San Antonio Missions. The newest stadium is Equity Bank Park (2020) in Wichita, Kansas, home of the Wichita Wind Surge. One stadium was built in the 1990s, six in the 2000s, two in ...
The Potter County Memorial Stadium was home to several minor league baseball clubs before hosting the modern Amarillo Dillas squad. In PCMS's first season to host baseball, the Amarillo Gold Sox were in business. The Gold Sox would spend 1959–1965 and 1976–1982 hosting AA professional baseball in the Texas League. The Gold Sox had also ...
However, the Rosebuds/Giants' four years in the Texas League during the 1958 to 1961 period (along with a return to the Texas loop in 1974 for one season as the Victoria Toros) represented the highest-level minor league team to represent the city. Victoria has always been by far the smallest market base in its respective leagues. The Texas ...
But the Gold Sox disappeared from the baseball map when the 1964 Texas League contracted, and when Amarillo returned to the TL in 1965, it was known as the Sonics from 1965–1967 and the Giants from 1968–1974. In 1975, the franchise moved to Lafayette, Louisiana, te become the Lafayette Drillers and Amarillo was again left out of the Texas ...
Riverside Stadium is a ballpark located in Victoria, Texas, which is the current home of the UHV Jaguars baseball team and the Victoria Generals of the Texas Collegiate League. It is the former home of the Victoria Rosebuds, who played in the AA classification Texas League from 1958 to 1961. The stadium was opened in 1947 as a part of Riverside ...