Important dates in Augusta's baseball history

1904: Ty Cobb begins professional career as a 17-year-old with the Augusta Tourists. The Tourists and the South Atlantic League also debut.

1916: Tourists win first of Augusta?s 10 Sally League championships

1930: Augusta Wolves play first night game in the South

1958: Detroit Tigers end affiliation with Augusta because of a lack of support

1962: New York Yankees establish Augusta team

1963: Yankees end affiliation; South Atlantic League folds

1988: Minor league baseball returns with Augusta Pirates with Len and Ann Monheimer as majority owners and Bill Heaton as minority owner; Heaton Stadium opens

1990: Newspaper heir Bill Scripps buys team from Monheimers and Heaton

1994: Team renamed GreenJackets

1995: Lake Olmstead Stadium opens

1998: Scripps sells team to Boston businessmen Mike and Jeffrey Savit

1999: GreenJackets begin affiliation with Boston Red Sox

2005: Ripken Baseball purchases GreenJackets from Savit brothers; team becomes affiliated with San Francisco Giants

2008: Augusta sweeps Charleston, W. Va., to earn 10th South Atlantic League championship

2012: Agon Sports & Entertainment purchases club from Ripken Baseball

Source: augustachronicle.com; staff research

TEAM NAMES

Augusta?s baseball team names through the years:

• Browns (1885-86)
• Electricians (1893)
• Tourists (1904-11 and 1914-16)
• Dollies (1919)
• Georgians (1920-21)
• Tygers (1922 and 1924-29)
• Tigers (1923, 1936-42, 1946-52 and 1955-58)
• Wolves (1930)
• Rams (1953-54)
• Yankees (1962-63)
• Pirates (1988-93)
• GreenJackets (1994-present)

Source: augusta.greenjackets.milb.com

Source: http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/baseball/2012-12-19/important-dates-augustas-baseball-history

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