The Monroe Twins were a professional Minor League Baseball club based in the city of

Monroe, Louisiana Monroe (historically french: Poste-du-Ouachita) is the eighth-largest city in the U.S. state of Louisiana, and parish seat of Ouachita Parish. With a 2020 census-tabulated population of 47,702, it is the principal city of the Monroe metropolita ...

. The Twins formed part of the Cotton States League from 1931 through 1932 (Class D), and returned in 1937 (Class C) to play for one more year. They were an affiliate of the St. Louis Cardinals during the 1932 season.

Season-by-season record

Major League Baseball alumni

* Bill Baker (1932) * Josh Billings (1931) * Red Borom (1937) *

Lou Chiozza Louis Peo Chiozza (May 11, 1910 – February 28, 1971) was an American professional baseball player who played a total of six seasons with the Philadelphia Phillies and New York Giants of Major League Baseball. Early life Chiozza was born on Tues ...

(1931) * Bill Crouch (1932) *

Ed Hock Edward Francis Hock (March 27, 1899 in Franklin Furnace, Ohio, - November 11, 1963 in Portsmouth, Ohio) was an American Major League Baseball player who played parts of three seasons for the St. Louis Cardinals and the Cincinnati Reds from 1920 to ...

(1937) * Ted Jourdan (1931) *

Hersh Martin Hershel Ray Martin (September 19, 1909 – November 17, 1980) was an American professional baseball player and scout. An outfielder born in Birmingham, Alabama, and raised in Ponca City, Oklahoma, Martin played for 23 seasons, mostly in minor l ...

(1932) *

Wally Moses Wallace Moses (October 8, 1910 – October 10, 1990) was an Americans, American professional baseball right fielder, who played Major League Baseball for the Philadelphia Athletics (1935–41; 1949–51), Chicago White Sox (1942–46) and Boston R ...

(1932) * Eddie Palmer (1931) *

Culley Rikard Culley Rikard (May 9, 1914 – February 25, 2000) was a professional baseball player. He played three seasons in Major League Baseball, 1941, 1942, and 1947, with the Pittsburgh Pirates of the National League, primarily as an outfielder. Aft ...

(1937) * Abe White (1932)

Fact

Gordon Houston Gordon Enloe Houston (March 20, 1916 – February 10, 1942) was an American professional outfielder and shortstop who played from 1937 through 1940 in Minor League Baseball. Listed at 5' 8" , 156 lb. , he batted and threw right-handed. Houston ...

, who started his professional career with the Monroe Twins in the 1938 season, is best remembered for being the first player in Organized Baseball to die during active duty in

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

.Baseball's Greatest Sacrifice – Gordon Houston Biography
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External links

Baseball Reference – Minor League History
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