The Anniston Rams were a minor league baseball team based in

Anniston, Alabama Anniston is a city and the county seat of Calhoun County, Alabama, Calhoun County in Alabama, United States, and is one of two urban centers/principal cities of and included in the Anniston–Oxford metropolitan area, Anniston–Oxford Metropo ...

that operated in the

Southeastern League The Southeastern League was the name of four separate baseball leagues in minor league baseball which operated in the Southeastern and South Central United States in numerous seasons between 1897 and 2003. Two of these leagues were associated w ...

from 1938–1942 and again from 1946–1950. They had affiliation deals with the

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(1938–39),

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(1940) and

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(1946). Anniston had several minor-league teams between 1904 and the Rams' first season in 1938, but the Rams were Anniston's longest-running team. Th
Rams' nickname
related to the city's foundational iron foundry industries and the wooden "rammer" tools workers used in making the moulds. Th
Rams' final season
1950, ended early when poor finances caused the franchise to be returned to the Southeastern League, which operated it as an "orphan" team for two weeks and forced it to play all of its games on the road. The league finally folded the team on July 25.

External links

Baseball ReferenceAnniston Rams"Digging in at the plate," ''Phillip Tutor'', The Anniston Star, Sept. 2, 1999
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