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- Minor League Baseball teams were based in Portsmouth, Virginia, in various seasons between 1895 and 1968. Early, Portsmouth teams, called the Portsmouth Truckers, Portsmouth Pirates and Portsmouth Browns were Virginia League members based in Portsmouth, playing between 1895 and 1928. The Portsmouth Cubs were affiliates of the Chicago Cubs and the Philadelphia Phillies, playing in the Class B level Piedmont League from 1935 to 1955. The team became the Portsmouth Merrimacs from 1953 to 1955. Portsmouth hosted the Portsmouth-Norfolk Tides from 1961 to 1968, with the franchise evolving into the Tidewater Tides and eventually today's Class AAA level Norfolk Tides. Baseball Hall of Fame members Pie Traynor (1920), Hack Wilson (1923) and Buck Leonard (1953) played for Portsmouth, while Jimmie Foxx (1944) and Tony Lazzeri (1942) served as managers of the Portsmouth Cubs. Actor Chuck Connors played for Portsmouth in 1942 and 1946. (en)
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- High Street Park (en)
- Lawrence Stadium (en)
- Sewanee Stadium (en)
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- Portsmouth, Virginia (en)
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- 1943 (xsd:integer)
- 1950 (xsd:integer)
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- 1945 (xsd:integer)
- 1965 (xsd:integer)
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- Portsmouth, Virginia (en)
- minor league baseball teams (en)
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- dbr:Portsmouth_Truckers
- Portsmouth Pirates (en)
- Portsmouth Boers (en)
- Portsmouth Browns (en)
- Portsmouth Cubs (en)
- Portsmouth Merrimacs (en)
- Portsmouth Truckers (en)
- Portsmouth-Norfolk Tides (en)
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- 1964 (xsd:integer)
- 1967 (xsd:integer)
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- Minor League Baseball teams were based in Portsmouth, Virginia, in various seasons between 1895 and 1968. Early, Portsmouth teams, called the Portsmouth Truckers, Portsmouth Pirates and Portsmouth Browns were Virginia League members based in Portsmouth, playing between 1895 and 1928. The Portsmouth Cubs were affiliates of the Chicago Cubs and the Philadelphia Phillies, playing in the Class B level Piedmont League from 1935 to 1955. The team became the Portsmouth Merrimacs from 1953 to 1955. (en)
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- Portsmouth, Virginia minor league baseball history (en)
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