Cordele Bees T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Georgia tennessee joining seven other founding teams

joining seven other founding teams — including the Fort Wayne Railroaders and the Wheeling Stogies — when play began on April 30

offering year-round comfort with lasting durability

they defeated a split-squad New York Yankees team managed by Casey Stengel at Majors Stadium

giving the small Cooke County seat five seasons of professional baseball through 1951

Like other Tennessee teams in the league

Cordele Bees T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Georgia tennessee joining seven other founding teamsThe Cordele Bees, based in Cordele, Georgia, played two seasons in the Class D Georgia Florida League in 1939 and 1940. The franchise had a longer presence in the league under other names: the Cordele Reds ran from 1936 through 1938 and again from 1941 through 1942, winning league championships in both 1937 and 1942. The Bees identity was brief, sandwiched between those two Reds stints, and the team did not advance deep into the postseason in either