The Iola Champs were a minor league baseball team that played in the

Oklahoma–Kansas League The Oklahoma–Kansas League was a six–team minor league baseball league that existed in 1908. As its name indicates, the Class D level league consisted of teams from Oklahoma and Kansas. History The teams in the league were the Bartlesvill ...

in 1908. They were the first professional team to be based in

Iola, Kansas Iola () is the county seat of Allen County, Kansas, United States. The city is situated along the Neosho River in southeast Kansas. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 5,396. It is named in honor of Iola Colborn. History ...

since 1906 and the last until 1946, when the

Iola Cubs The Iola Cubs was the first and primary name of the Class Kansas–Oklahoma–Missouri League minor league baseball team based in Iola, Kansas, USA, that played in 1946 and 1947. The Iola Cubs were preceded by other early 1900s Iola minor league te ...

came into being.BR Minors
/ref> The Class-D team did not have a major league affiliation.

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