Cordele Bees Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Georgia rayne rice birds The franchise had played in

The franchise had played in the West Texas-New Mexico League from 1938 through 1942

The White Hawks era that followed produced both the city's only Three-I championship and some of the finest young talent to pass through any Class B roster in the postwar decade

That club produced one of the great forgotten offensive seasons in minor league history: 21-year-old Calvin Felix led the league in nearly every category in 1947

a 29-118 record standing as one of the worst in professional baseball history

and the opponent carried its own irony: the defending champion Reno Silver Sox

Cordele Bees Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Georgia rayne rice birds The franchise had played inThe 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