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Evangeline Baseball League

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Sport
  
Minor League Baseball

Ceased
  
1957

Country
  
United States

Inaugural season
  
1934

No. of teams
  
17

Classification
  
D, C

The Evangeline Baseball League began in 1934 as a six-team Class-D minor league chiefly in Louisiana, United States. The following season, the league was expanded to eight teams and ceased operations in 1942, with six teams, during World War II. It resumed activities in 1946, getting promoted to Class-C in 1949, and lasted through 1957. The Alexandria Aces were the only team that played in all 21 regular seasons.

Etymology

  • The league’s name was derived from Evangeline, an Acadian girl made famous through a poem of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

    • References

    Evangeline Baseball League Wikipedia
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