Show any stuff from short-lived minor league teams

[nolemmings]

My home town of Mankato, Minnesota was a low-level farm club of the New York Mets in 1967 and 1968--the Mankato Mets. It drew fewer than 10K fans in both seasons combined. I have seen a pic of one program, but no regular game tickets, which might be so non-descript as to be incapable of association with the team. No yearbooks, no team photos, scheds, nada. I have a complimentary season pass somewhere, which is so plain it looks like a school lunch ticket (for those of us oldsters who remember them). I remember going to one game, and I vaguely recall that their caps looked like what would become the Montreal Expos logo. Anyway, here is a flyer I won on ebay several years ago about the batter-up Banquet coming to town, with two stapled tickets to such gala. [note Kato Ballroom locale: TRIVIA--Buddy Holly played there about a week before his plane went down]

Anyone else have some obscure minor-league stuff to show?

[Leon]

very cool and thanks for sharing, Todd....How can you go wrong with the Beavers .

[bnorth]

We had a minor league Cubs team here in 1969-70. Picked up this program from a fellow member. Rick Reuschel played his first minor league game for the Huron Cubs in 1970.

[nolemmings]

Ben, your team was in the same Northern League as the Mankato Mets, and played then too. Sweet!

By the way, it looks like you got a Big-League signature along the top of your program-- the late Craig "Mongo" Kusick of the Twins. Nice.

Edited to add: I see sigs of Mike Poepping and Jim Hughes too, who both made it to the Twins. Hughes and Kusick had Topps baseball cards, as did Dan Vossler (1974 Rookies), who also signed your program, even though he never made it.

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by nolemmings

Ben, your team was in the same Northern League as the Mankato Mets, and played then too. Sweet!

By the way, it looks like you got a Big-League signature along the top of your program-- the late Craig "Mongo" Kusick of the Twins. Nice.

Edited to add: I see sigs of Mike Poepping and Jim Hughes too, who both made it to the Twins. Hughes and Kusick had Topps baseball cards, as did Dan Vossler (1974 Rookies), who also signed your program, even though he never made it.

Whoever got the autographs got all but 2 of the St Cloud Rox team.

We have had a few minor league teams in our little town.
1920+21 Huron Packers Bill Shipke(has a T206 card) played his last season here in 1920.

1965-1968 Huron Phillies In 1968 we had Larry Cox, Greg Luzinski, and Manny Trillo on the team.

1969+70 Huron Cubs Rick Reuschel played his first year here in 1970.

1994 Huron Heaters

Sadly I never got to see a single one of those games. I was only 1yo when the Cubs left and was working in Missouri in 94.

[Gary Dunaier]

The Queens Kings were a minor league affiliate of the Toronto Blue Jays who only played for one season, 2000. They played at St. John's University in Jamaica, NY, not very far from Shea Stadium. One of my regrets is that I never attended a game.

I do have a program that I bought on Ebay. Don't remember if there was anything else included in the lot, like a ticket or a schedule.

In 2001, the Kings became an affiliate of the New York Mets, and moved to Coney Island... where they're now known as the Brooklyn Cyclones.

[slidekellyslide]

Does 6 years qualify as a short tenure? The Lincoln A's were around from 1947-52.

1949-52 Ellensburg Cowboys of the short-lived Cascade League. The last minor league team in town, unless the Ellensburg Bulls get off the ground this summer. Here's the 1950 Cascade champs with firstbaseman Dean Nicholson (second from left, top row), and a very young Stu Hanson (1957-58 Wenatchee Chiefs, middle top row with glasses).