Decatur Commodores
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Decatur Commodores Founded in 1900 Decatur, Illinois |
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| Previous | Class-A (1963-74) Class-D (1952–1962) Class-B (1902–1909; 1911-15; 1922–1932; 1935; 1937-48) |
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Previous leagues
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Midwest League (1956–1974) Mississippi–Ohio Valley League (1952-55)Illinois–Indiana–Iowa League (Three-I) (1901–1909; 1911–1915; 1922–1932; 1935; 1937–1942; 1946-50) Northern Association (1910) Central League (1900) Illinois-Indiana league (1889) Central Interstate League (1888) |
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San Francisco Giants (1962–1974) Detroit Tigers (1957–1961; 1932) St Louis Cardinals (1955-56; 1946-47; 1937–1942) Cincinnati Reds (1950) Chicago Cubs (1948-49) |
| Minor league titles | |
| League titles (4) | 1928; 1952; 1953; 1957 |
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| Nickname | Commodores (60 Seasons) |
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Previous names
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Decatur Cubs (1949) Decatur Nomads (1911) Unknown (1888-89) |
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Previous parks
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Fans Field (1924–1974) Staley Field (1915–1922-23) Downing Racetrack (1901) |
Midwest League (1956–1974)
The Decatur Commodores were a professional minor league baseball team based in Decatur, Illinois that played for 64 seasons. The Commodores are the primary ancestor of today's Kane County Cougars. They played, with sporadic interruptions, from 1900 to 1974 in a variety of minor leagues, but spent the majority of their existence in the Illinois–Indiana–Iowa League (the "Three-I" League), later joining the Mississippi–Ohio Valley League (1952 to 1955) and the Midwest League (1956 to 1974). While they spent most of their years as an independent without formal major league baseball team affiliation, their primary affiliations were with the St. Louis Cardinals and later the San Francisco Giants, with isolated affiliations with the Detroit Tigers, Chicago Cubs and Philadelphia Phillies.
The Commodores played home games at Fans Field (1924–1974). Fans Field had a 5,200-seat grandstand which was demolished when the team moved to Wausau, Wisconsin in 1974 and became the Wausau Timbers. The field is still in use as a softball field.
Prior to the 1924 construction of Fans Field, the Commodores played at Staley Field (1915, 1922–1923). They shared Staley Field with the football team for which it was built, the Decatur Staleys. The Staleys were the early NFL franchise started by A.E. Staley and headed by George Halas that relocated from Decatur in 1922 and became the Chicago Bears. The Commodores began play at Downing Racetrack (now called Hess Park) in 1901.
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