Americus Pioneers Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Georgia clay city red devils The Berries started slowly

The Berries started slowly

with fans voting "Pioneers" the winner

When those teams disbanded

As a New York Giants affiliate in 1952

because the second game was presumably called early

Americus Pioneers Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Georgia clay city red devils The Berries started slowlyThe Americus Pioneers, based in Americus, Georgia, played in the Class D Georgia Florida League from 1939 through 1942. The franchise had first appeared in the league as the Americus Cardinals, a St. Louis Cardinals affiliate, from 1935 through 1938. After the war it returned as the Americus Phillies from 1946 through 1950. Among the players who came through that postwar club was Jack Sanford, who pitched for the Phillies in 1949, won the National