Moultrie Packers

The Moultrie Packers, based in Moultrie, Georgia, were one of the Georgia-Florida League's founding members in 1935 and one of its most successful franchises, winning back-to-back league championships in 1946 and 1947. The team ran under the Packers name from 1936 through 1942 and again from 1946 through 1947, with the name tied to Moultrie's meatpacking industry. Our design for the Packers leans into that meatpacking heritage with a pig mascot, a nod to the industry that gave the team its name.

Moultrie remained in the league under a succession of identities across the decades: Steers (1935), Athletics (1948-49), Cubs (1950), To-Baks (1951, a tobacco-industry reference), Giants (1952), Redlegs (1955-56), and Phillies (1957), before the franchise returned for the 1962-63 revival as the Moultrie Colt .22s, an affiliate of the Houston Colt .45s. The Georgia-Florida League was a Class D circuit that ran, with a wartime interruption from 1943 through 1945, from 1935 through 1958, fielding teams primarily from south Georgia with occasional representation from Florida and Alabama.