Editing Jackson Senators

{{Short description|Minor league baseball team based in Jackson, Mississippi (USA)}}
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The '''Jackson Senators''' was the name of at least two [[minor league baseball]] teams that played in [[Jackson, Mississippi]].

==First team==
The first known Jackson Senators club competed in the [[Delta League]] in 1904.{{cn|date=March 2025}} 

In 1951, club president Emmet Vaughey announced that the club would be disbanded, after the dissolution of the Southeastern League.<ref>{{Cite news |date=January 30, 1951 |title=This Day |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-greenwood-commonwealth-this-day/168602094/ |access-date=2025-03-22 |work=The Greenwood Commonwealth |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>

Jackson also played as a member of the [[Cotton States League]] before 1953. This was a class C minor-league club, and was the last team to represent the city of Jackson before the arrival of the class AA [[Jackson Mets]] for the 1975 season.

==Second team==
The second Jackson Senators team was a member of the [[Independent league baseball|independent]] [[Central Baseball League]] from [[2002 in baseball|2002]] to [[2005 in baseball|2005]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jackson Senators - Team History - The Baseball Cube |url=https://www.thebaseballcube.com/content/minor_team/59/ |access-date=2025-03-21 |website=www.thebaseballcube.com}}</ref> a league that was not affiliated with [[Major League Baseball]].  The Senators won the CBL title in 2003.{{cn|date=March 2025}} After the CBL disbanded, the Senators were left without a league for the [[2006 in baseball|2006]] season.

On January 24, 2006, officials with the team's ownership group, Mississippi Baseball Club LLC, announced that they would not be operating a professional independent team in Jackson for the 2006 season after running the team alongside the [[Mississippi Braves]] for the 2005 season, who had relocated to suburban [[Pearl, Mississippi|Pearl]] from Greenville (South Carolina).

The team played at [[Smith-Wills Stadium]].

==Notable players==
*[[Jack Mealey]] (born 1899) -- minor league baseball catcher, who also managed in the minor leagues and served as president of the Sooner State League

==References==
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[[Category:Defunct minor league baseball teams]]
[[Category:Defunct baseball teams in Mississippi]]
[[Category:Defunct Cotton States League teams]]
[[Category:Baseball teams disestablished in 2005]]
[[Category:Defunct independent baseball league teams]]
[[Category:2002 establishments in Mississippi]]
[[Category:Sports in Jackson, Mississippi]]
[[Category:Southeastern League teams]]
[[Category:Baseball teams established in 1953]]
[[Category:Baseball teams disestablished in 1953]]
[[Category:Baseball teams established in 2002]]
[[Category:Delta League teams]]
[[Category:Dixie League (1933 baseball) teams]]


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