Columbus has had minor-league ball for 85 years with occasional interruptions. The team has been knowns as the Cardinals, Foxes, Astros and, in the late '80s, the Mudcats. Entered the SAL in 1991. A local zoo sponsors the foul poles with a big giraffe neck on each pole. Macon first had minor-league baseball in 1885.
Trains run next to the park near right field.
Joined current SAL in 1984. Shoeless Joe Jackson, whose .358 batting average in 1909 is second-best in franchise history, Geronimo Pena. The left-field line is a short 290 feet. Wilmington had a team in the minors' early years, but baseball left in the early '50s. Waves President Sims Hinds said.