The Miami Beach Flamingos were a professional minor league baseball team based in

Miami Beach, Florida Miami Beach is a coastal resort city in Miami-Dade County, Florida. It was incorporated on March 26, 1915. The municipality is located on natural and artificial island, man-made barrier islands between the Atlantic Ocean and Biscayne Bay, the ...

periodically from 1940 until 1954. The team played its home games at Flamingo Field and was a member of the Class D

Florida East Coast League The Florida East Coast League was the name of two United States, American minor league baseball circuits based on the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic coast of Florida. The first edition of the league operated as a Class D (baseball), Class D level league ...

as the Miami Beach Tigers in 1940. The following season they changed their nickname to the Flamingos and won the league's championship. The FECL the then folded in May 1942 due to World War II. After the War, the Flamingos joined the new Class C

Florida International League The Florida International League was a lower- to mid-level circuit in American and Cuban minor league baseball that existed from 1946 through July 27, 1954. It was designated Class C for its first three seasons, then upgraded to Class B in 1949 fo ...

in 1946. The league became Class-B in 1949. The Flamingos played the 1952 season, sat-out 1953, and rejoined in 1954 only to move across

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and relocate to Miami as the Miami Beach Flamingos/Greater Miami Flamingos during the 1954 season.Beach&state=FL&country=US&empty=0 BR Minors
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Notable alumni

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* Bill Currie *

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* Jesse Levan *

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* Danny Morejon *

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* Jack Phillips * Whitey Platt * Max Rosenfeld * Mike Schemer

References

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