The Anniston Rams were a minor league baseball team based in
Anniston, Alabama
Anniston is the county seat of Calhoun County in Alabama and is one of two urban centers/principal cities of and included in the Anniston-Oxford Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2010 census, the population of the city was 23,106. Acc ...
that operated in the
Southeastern League
The Southeastern League was the name of four separate baseball leagues in minor league baseball which operated in the Southeastern and South Central United States in numerous seasons between 1897 and 2003. Two of these leagues were associated wit ...
from 1938–1942 and again from 1946–1950. They had affiliation deals with the
Chicago White Sox
The Chicago White Sox are an American professional baseball team based in Chicago. The White Sox compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) Central division. The team is owned by Jerry Reinsdorf, and ...
(1938–39),
Brooklyn Dodgers (1940) and
Pittsburgh Pirates (1946).
Anniston had several minor-league teams between 1904 and the Rams' first season in 1938, but the Rams were Anniston's longest-running team.
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Rams' nicknamerelated to the city's foundational iron foundry industries and the wooden "rammer" tools workers used in making the moulds.
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Rams' final season 1950, ended early when poor finances caused the franchise to be returned to the Southeastern League, which operated it as an "orphan" team for two weeks and forced it to play all of its games on the road. The league finally folded the team on July 25.
External links
Baseball ReferenceAnniston Rams"Digging in at the plate," ''Phillip Tutor'', The Anniston Star, Sept. 2, 1999
Defunct minor league baseball teams
Brooklyn Dodgers minor league affiliates
Pittsburgh Pirates minor league affiliates
Chicago White Sox minor league affiliates
Professional baseball teams in Alabama
Defunct Southeastern League teams
Baseball teams established in 1938
Baseball teams disestablished in 1950
1938 establishments in Alabama
1950 disestablishments in Alabama
Southeastern League teams
Defunct baseball teams in Alabama
Anniston, Alabama
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