Cordele Bees T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Georgia lake charles skippers The Western League was a

The Western League was a mid-level circuit that ran from 1885 through 1958 in various forms

with the state capital providing natural identity for a team playing in a circuit that bore Florida's name

and the Aces folded rather than attempt a 1942 campaign

the first baseman whose major league career ran from 1888 to 1907 and who was inducted into the Hall in 1971

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Cordele Bees T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Georgia lake charles skippers The Western League was aThe Cordele Bees, based in Cordele, Georgia, played two seasons in the Class D Georgia Florida League in 1939 and 1940. The franchise had a longer presence in the league under other names: the Cordele Reds ran from 1936 through 1938 and again from 1941 through 1942, winning league championships in both 1937 and 1942. The Bees identity was brief, sandwiched between those two Reds stints, and the team did not advance deep into the postseason in either