San Diego Padres (PCL) 1956 Authentic Wool Ballcap WHT-S home of the Southern Association's

home of the Southern Association's Memphis Chicks

New York's entry played at the Bronx Oval

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History: Wichita’s Braves moved up to AAA status when the Milwaukee Braves moved their Toledo affiliate to Kansas in 1956

the name “Astros” was chosen for the team which would play in the “Eighth Wonder of the World”

San Diego Padres (PCL) 1956 Authentic Wool Ballcap WHT-S home of the Southern Association'sTHE EXACT SD LOGO WORN BY THE PADRES BEFORE THEY JOINED MLB History: By 1956, the Pacific Coast League was officially classified as "open, with a plan in place to be eventually certified as a major league. However, rumblings about MLB clubs moving out west were already being heard, and in just two years the Dodgers and Giants would dash the dreams of the PCL, taking their two largest markets. The Padres continued on in the AAA PCL until a National