Mobile Bears in the Forties

 

 

1970 "Mosox"
BASEBALL IN MOBILE

     Many baseball fans in Mobile remember the Mobile Bears that won the 1947 Southern
Association Championship with a record of 94 wins 59 losses.   The Bears drew 237,322 spectators to Hartwell Field .   Many have never heard about the 1970 Mobile White Sox.   Mobile
was a Double A, (AA), affiliate of the Chicago White Sox and were a member of the Southern League.  
     The 1970 White Sox were the last professional baseball team represented in Mobile until the Mobile Bay Sharks participated in an Independent Texas-Louisiana League in 1994 and 1995.        
      The 1997 Mobile Bay Bears woke up the ghosts from historic Hartwell Field when its team opened in the newly constructed Hank Aaron Stadium.  The Bay Bears are also a member of the Southern League as an AA affiliate of the San Diego Padres.  
      The 1970 White Sox won 59 games and lost 78 to finish seventh place in the Southern League.  Unlike the Bay Sharks,  it was pure baseball.   The White Sox drew a total of 35,775 fans at home games and it was evident that Mobile would not support a losing baseball team.  Twenty-six years later the Bay Bears tried its luck with a modernized society of baseball fans.