Editing Fitzgerald, Georgia (section)

==Minor league baseball teams==
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Fitzgerald was home to a [[minor league baseball]] team in the [[Georgia State League]] from 1948, the league's first season of operation, through 1952. The team was called the [[Fitzgerald Pioneers]]. The club had no affiliation with any major league club during the five seasons of operation in the Georgia State League. After the 1952 season, the Fitzgerald Pioneers relocated to [[Sandersville, Georgia|Sandersville]] and became the Sandersville Wacos, which were affiliated with the [[Milwaukee Braves]] for the 1953 season. The team ended their last season in 1956, under different affiliation.

Fitzgerald got a replacement team for the Pioneers in 1953 when the [[Moultrie Giants]] of the [[Georgia–Florida League]] moved to town. The Moultrie club was a charter member of the Georgia–Florida League when it began operations in 1946. After relocating to Fitzgerald and becoming an affiliate of the [[Cincinnati Redlegs]], the new edition of the Fitzgerald Pioneers lasted one season (1954) saw the team name changed to the [[Fitzgerald Redlegs]]. After two years in Fitzgerald, the club returned to Moultrie. It ceased operating in 1958 under the name [[Brunswick Phillies]].

After the Fitzgerald Redlegs left, the city was without a team for the 1955 season. The next year the [[Cordele, Georgia|Cordele]] club relocated to Fitzgerald after ten seasons in Cordele. They changed affiliation back to what were now called the [[Kansas City A's]], and the [[Fitzgerald A's]] played for the 1956 season. In 1957, the club again changed its affiliation, to the Baltimore Orioles; the club was known as the [[Fitzgerald Orioles]] for the 1957 season. The Fitzgerald team relocated to [[Dublin, Georgia]] after the 1957 season and remained a Baltimore Orioles farm team; they played as the [[Dublin Orioles]] for the Georgia–Florida League's last year of operation. Fitzgerald has not had a minor league team in the 63 years since.